House Democrats Asked to Seize Biden's Bank Records A group of conservative activists and leaders is asking House Democrats = who have pursued President Donald Trump=E2=80=99s tax returns to demand = former Vice President Joe Biden=E2=80=99s bank records, given = allegations of overseas business entanglements. The Hunter Biden laptop story in October revealed that Joe Biden had = discussed his family=E2=80=99s foreign business entanglements, despite = earlier denials, and that he explored a business venture with a Chinese = company in which he was to have held 10% of equity. House Democrats have tried for years to obtain Trump=E2=80=99s tax = returns, going to the Supreme Court = in their effort to do so, = though they have not had evidence of any crimes or conflicts of = interest, but insisting on the need for transparency. In a press release = = Tuesday, several conservative leaders released a letter they had sent to = House Ways and Means Committee Chair Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA), in which = they argued Biden=E2=80=99s bank records were of equal public value: Mr. Chairman, Your recent comments about the need to investigate criminal wrongdoing = by public officials and the importance of transparency to American = government have not gone unnoticed. As you know, allegations of just such wrongdoing and the lack of = transparency have arisen over the last two months based on emails found = on a personal computer belonging to Hunter Biden =E2=80=94 the son of = Vice President Joseph Biden =E2=80=94 a computer whose authenticity has = been established by the FBI. As you also know, public record has established beyond doubt that vice = President Biden repeatedly took his son on official trips to foreign = nations and that soon after such trips his son=E2=80=99s companies = we=E2=80=99re receiving millions in contracts from government related = entities in those nations. Additionally, it is also public record that = when one of those companies came under investigation for corrupt = practices by a foreign government vice president Biden intervened and = forced that government to shut down the corruption probe and fire the = prosecutor by threatening to deny the country and its people US foreign = aid. This, as you know, is indisputable since Vice President Biden = openly boasted on camera about his effectiveness in getting the = corruption prosecutor fired. Now, however, graver questions have arisen about the suspect activities = of the vice president and his son. Disclosure of the emails from Hunter = Biden=E2=80=99s computer show him speaking openly about paying out money = to the rest of the family including his father who was apparently = referred to =E2=80=94 and these are just two examples=E2=80=94 as =E2=80=9C= the big guy=E2=80=9D or someone entitled to his ten percent. Already, of course, Vice President Biden has a serious credibility = problem on this issue, having said flatly that he never discussed such = business matters with his son. Evidence from the computer emails as well = as testimony from one of his son=E2=80=99s former business colleagues = who attended meetings with Vice President Biden show his emphatic denial = is now one of the boldest falsehoods ever told an American public life. In any case, we hope that you would welcome the chance to assist Vice = President Biden in laying to rest any allegations that he was using his = office and official travel to influence foreign governments or entities = to benefit his son=E2=80=99s businesses. And to answer this question: = Was any of that income received by Vice President Biden or other family = members? Thus, we hope that in view of your strong demand for transparency and = disclosure you will endorse our suggestion that your committee ask for = vice President Biden=E2=80=99s bank records and those of the rest of his = family over the period of his vice presidency and immediately = thereafter. In this way he can put to rest any allegations including = concerns about how he acquired his extensive personal wealth and his = large estate. If members of the committee from both sides as well as their legal = counsel could be permitted to examine the records and then report to the = Congress this would do much to clear the air. Moreover, if you took this = initiative as a member of the Democratic House leadership this would do = much to show that your interest in full disclosure and investigating = corruption extends to members of your own party. As you know, when these allegations arose during the presidential = campaign, media organizations =E2=80=93 some of whom still claim they = are serious news organizations =E2=80=93 rushed to protect Vice = President Joe Biden who was their chosen candidate by imposing a news = blackout on this information. But that won=E2=80=99t last now =E2=80=93 the public is going to want to = know the truth. This is your chance to serve the cause of integrity and = transparency in public office as you=E2=80=99ve talked so much about the = past few years. The American people have a right to this information and we are hopeful = that you and the Vice President will see the advantage of the full = disclosure suggested by our proposal before demands for a special = counsel become deafening. Author: Joel B. Pollak

From: H Laitin Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_E0EFB1A2-FF90-407B-95C4-DCDA2D6534B9" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.5 \(3445.9.7\)) Subject: House Democrats Asked to Seize Biden's Bank Records X-Universally-Unique-Identifier: 2843AB12-4F05-4B85-B9A9-AEEB9AB5E19B Message-Id: Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 14:44:54 -0800 To: howard laitin --Apple-Mail=_E0EFB1A2-FF90-407B-95C4-DCDA2D6534B9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 House Democrats Asked to Seize Biden's Bank Records A group of conservative activists and leaders is asking House Democrats = who have pursued President Donald Trump=E2=80=99s tax returns to demand = former Vice President Joe Biden=E2=80=99s bank records, given = allegations of overseas business entanglements. The Hunter Biden laptop story in October revealed that Joe Biden had = discussed his family=E2=80=99s foreign business entanglements, despite = earlier denials, and that he explored a business venture with a Chinese = company in which he was to have held 10% of equity. House Democrats have tried for years to obtain Trump=E2=80=99s tax = returns, going to the Supreme Court = in their effort to do so, = though they have not had evidence of any crimes or conflicts of = interest, but insisting on the need for transparency. In a press release = = Tuesday, several conservative leaders released a letter they had sent to = House Ways and Means Committee Chair Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA), in which = they argued Biden=E2=80=99s bank records were of equal public value: Mr. Chairman, Your recent comments about the need to investigate criminal wrongdoing = by public officials and the importance of transparency to American = government have not gone unnoticed. As you know, allegations of just such wrongdoing and the lack of = transparency have arisen over the last two months based on emails found = on a personal computer belonging to Hunter Biden =E2=80=94 the son of = Vice President Joseph Biden =E2=80=94 a computer whose authenticity has = been established by the FBI. As you also know, public record has established beyond doubt that vice = President Biden repeatedly took his son on official trips to foreign = nations and that soon after such trips his son=E2=80=99s companies = we=E2=80=99re receiving millions in contracts from government related = entities in those nations. Additionally, it is also public record that = when one of those companies came under investigation for corrupt = practices by a foreign government vice president Biden intervened and = forced that government to shut down the corruption probe and fire the = prosecutor by threatening to deny the country and its people US foreign = aid. This, as you know, is indisputable since Vice President Biden = openly boasted on camera about his effectiveness in getting the = corruption prosecutor fired. Now, however, graver questions have arisen about the suspect activities = of the vice president and his son. Disclosure of the emails from Hunter = Biden=E2=80=99s computer show him speaking openly about paying out money = to the rest of the family including his father who was apparently = referred to =E2=80=94 and these are just two examples=E2=80=94 as =E2=80=9C= the big guy=E2=80=9D or someone entitled to his ten percent. Already, of course, Vice President Biden has a serious credibility = problem on this issue, having said flatly that he never discussed such = business matters with his son. Evidence from the computer emails as well = as testimony from one of his son=E2=80=99s former business colleagues = who attended meetings with Vice President Biden show his emphatic denial = is now one of the boldest falsehoods ever told an American public life. In any case, we hope that you would welcome the chance to assist Vice = President Biden in laying to rest any allegations that he was using his = office and official travel to influence foreign governments or entities = to benefit his son=E2=80=99s businesses. And to answer this question: = Was any of that income received by Vice President Biden or other family = members? Thus, we hope that in view of your strong demand for transparency and = disclosure you will endorse our suggestion that your committee ask for = vice President Biden=E2=80=99s bank records and those of the rest of his = family over the period of his vice presidency and immediately = thereafter. In this way he can put to rest any allegations including = concerns about how he acquired his extensive personal wealth and his = large estate. If members of the committee from both sides as well as their legal = counsel could be permitted to examine the records and then report to the = Congress this would do much to clear the air. Moreover, if you took this = initiative as a member of the Democratic House leadership this would do = much to show that your interest in full disclosure and investigating = corruption extends to members of your own party. As you know, when these allegations arose during the presidential = campaign, media organizations =E2=80=93 some of whom still claim they = are serious news organizations =E2=80=93 rushed to protect Vice = President Joe Biden who was their chosen candidate by imposing a news = blackout on this information. But that won=E2=80=99t last now =E2=80=93 the public is going to want to = know the truth. This is your chance to serve the cause of integrity and = transparency in public office as you=E2=80=99ve talked so much about the = past few years. The American people have a right to this information and we are hopeful = that you and the Vice President will see the advantage of the full = disclosure suggested by our proposal before demands for a special = counsel become deafening. Author: Joel B. Pollak Source: Breitbart: Conservative Groups Ask House Democrats to Demand Joe = Biden=E2=80=99s Bank Records = --Apple-Mail=_E0EFB1A2-FF90-407B-95C4-DCDA2D6534B9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

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A group of = conservative activists and leaders is asking House Democrats who have = pursued President Donald Trump=E2=80=99s tax returns to demand former = Vice President Joe Biden=E2=80=99s bank records, given allegations of = overseas business entanglements.

The Hunter Biden = laptop story in October revealed that Joe Biden had discussed his = family=E2=80=99s foreign business entanglements, despite earlier = denials, and that he explored a business venture with a Chinese company = in which he was to have held 10% of equity.

House = Democrats have tried for years to obtain Trump=E2=80=99s tax = returns, going to the Supreme Court in their effort to do so, = though they have not had evidence of any crimes or conflicts of = interest, but insisting on the need for transparency.

In = a press release Tuesday, = several conservative leaders released a letter they had sent to House = Ways and Means Committee Chair Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA), in which they = argued Biden=E2=80=99s bank records were of equal public value:

Mr. Chairman,

Your recent comments about the = need to investigate criminal wrongdoing by public officials and the = importance of transparency to American government have not gone = unnoticed.

As you know, allegations of just such = wrongdoing and the lack of transparency have arisen over the last two = months based on emails found on a personal computer belonging to Hunter = Biden =E2=80=94 the son of Vice President Joseph Biden =E2=80=94 a = computer whose authenticity has been established by the FBI.

As you also know, public record has established beyond doubt = that vice President Biden repeatedly took his son on official trips to = foreign nations and that soon after such trips his son=E2=80=99s = companies we=E2=80=99re receiving millions in contracts from government = related entities in those nations. Additionally, it is also public = record that when one of those companies came under investigation for = corrupt practices by a foreign government vice president Biden = intervened and forced that government to shut down the corruption probe = and fire the prosecutor by threatening to deny the country and its = people US foreign aid. This, as you know, is indisputable since Vice = President Biden openly boasted on camera about his effectiveness in = getting the corruption prosecutor fired.

Now, however, = graver questions have arisen about the suspect activities of the vice = president and his son. Disclosure of the emails from Hunter Biden=E2=80=99= s computer show him speaking openly about paying out money to the rest = of the family including his father who was apparently referred to =E2=80=94= and these are just two examples=E2=80=94 as =E2=80=9Cthe big guy=E2=80=9D= or someone entitled to his ten percent.

Already, of = course, Vice President Biden has a serious credibility problem on this = issue, having said flatly that he never discussed such business matters = with his son. Evidence from the computer emails as well as testimony = from one of his son=E2=80=99s former business colleagues who attended = meetings with Vice President Biden show his emphatic denial is now one = of the boldest falsehoods ever told an American public life.

In any case, we hope that you would welcome the chance to = assist Vice President Biden in laying to rest any allegations that he = was using his office and official travel to influence foreign = governments or entities to benefit his son=E2=80=99s businesses. And to = answer this question: Was any of that income received by Vice President = Biden or other family members?

Thus, we hope that in = view of your strong demand for transparency and disclosure you will = endorse our suggestion that your committee ask for vice President = Biden=E2=80=99s bank records and those of the rest of his family over = the period of his vice presidency and immediately thereafter. In this = way he can put to rest any allegations including concerns about how he = acquired his extensive personal wealth and his large estate.

If members of the committee from both sides as well as their = legal counsel could be permitted to examine the records and then report = to the Congress this would do much to clear the air. Moreover, if you = took this initiative as a member of the Democratic House leadership this = would do much to show that your interest in full disclosure and = investigating corruption extends to members of your own party.

As you know, when these allegations arose during the = presidential campaign, media organizations =E2=80=93 some of whom still = claim they are serious news organizations =E2=80=93 rushed to protect = Vice President Joe Biden who was their chosen candidate by imposing a = news blackout on this information.

But that won=E2=80=99t= last now =E2=80=93 the public is going to want to know the truth. This = is your chance to serve the cause of integrity and transparency in = public office as you=E2=80=99ve talked so much about the past few = years.

The American people have a right to this = information and we are hopeful that you and the Vice President will see = the advantage of the full disclosure suggested by our proposal before = demands for a special counsel become deafening.

Author: Joel B. Pollak

Source:= Breitbart: Conservative Groups Ask House Democrats to Demand Joe = Biden=E2=80=99s Bank Records

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review these materials and make recommendations as to what Torrance could do to promote the maximum functioning of education, commerce, industry, government, health, recreation, etc.

I hope that you are aware that the current restaurant closures of outdoor dining are based on an alluded to CDC study [ which ‘reported” that restaurants and bars accounted for 18% of the reported infections]. Reaction is that this “finding" is based on a correlation ….and that there has been no direct evidence of outdoor or even indoor infection. There has been no ability review the actual “study” but critics point out that the same individuals who are infected also had higher contact percentages with supermarkets, etc.

Other problems are that the number of reported test positives is not the same thing as the number of active infections. Number of test reports does not equal number of patients. Also, Gov. Newsom’s complicated algorithms for counties requires of achieving equivalence for underserved economic communities, This has nothing to do with any medical considerations.

You are probably already aware of the tremendous toll being taken both physically and psychologically on the general population. Increased alcoholism, increased child abuse, increased narcotics abuse, increase spousal abuse , increase in general violence, decrease in educational performance, non treatment or under treatment of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. All of which will have greater long-term negative social and economic impacts than any potential increases in Covid-19 infections which receive prompt and appropriate medical care

Play out the current scenario and ask yourself when and if Torrance will ever open up again. Also ask yourself had the accurate estimates of collateral damage been incorporated in the decision-making at the beginning, what would have been the optimal strategies to employ.

England during the t he maximum Nazi assault on London determined to keep going as normal as possible. Israel during the maximum assault of the intifada developed a strategy of returning to normal as soon as possible. Thus, they kept their buses running. Also when a market or a restaurant was devastated by a bombing, they worked 24/7 to restore the premises and reopen for normal business as soon as possible.

I believe that there are simple, inexpensive, procedures that would guarantee safety at a level much higher than that which is claimed for the current California and Los Angeles County lockdown mandates all the elements are present to fully reopen all schools, churches, synagogues mosques, offices, industrial activities, commercial activities, social and athletic activities, etc. I would like to propose what I believe would be a safe, effective and economical program which will give the the entire American population more assurance of health and safety than do the current pandemic lockdown mandates.

What I have advocated for Torrance , and failed in my advocacy was a multilayered program to safely reopen Torrance by developing and then expanding a sterile bubble. This is a combination of currently available defenses, each not perfect, but in combination yielding a high protective barrier.

Basically, what I have been recommending:

a. All classrooms, offices, stores etc. be equipped with air scrubbers and other ventilation and air purification techniques to make the indoors circulation and air purity at least as robust as the outdoor circulation currently there is an abundance of available information on the use of fans, etc. to increase indoor air circulation. There is an increasing amount of information being released about systems utilizing ultraviolet, ozone, etc. to kill the airborne virus]. [ Also, all surfaces will be wiped down every day with a treatment that has already been approved by the US EPA (which is certified to kill the coronavirus for at least one week).]

b.prophylactic use of hydroxychloroquine;

c.Inexpensive, rapid, easy to read tests which could be self-administered to shoppers, students, religious worshipers, commercial and service workers, etc. who after five to 15 minutes would then be shown to be noninfectious and thus not subject to masking or social distancing requirements.

d. Prompt and effective out-patient treatment to those who’re shown to infected [ rather than having them wait at home to see what happens to them in terms their developing significant symptoms [and the resulting medical complications and disabilities] ,which is the current standard medical practice. [Should any participant(s) present with any symptoms of the virus, then they, their family members and others in very close contact with them should be placed immediately in a treatment program. I would suggest that if the patient was on hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic then he should be switched to Ivermectin as a therapeutic.]

Benefits for the community

a. Substantially reduces the likelihood of transmission of the virus;

b. Provides protection for the most vulnerable [the aged, those with one or more existing medical conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart problems, etc.];

c. Provides prophylactic protection for those who may become exposed to the virus ….and if already exposed to the virus, provides the early" fire extinguisher" type of protection against the increasing buildup of the patient's viral load.

d. At a minimum the community will achieve substantially reduced infection rates probably similar to those Third World countries which routinely utilize hydroxychloroquine as an over-the-counter prophylactic against yellow fever. Data shows that Covid-19 infection rates in those countries has been far below that the infection rates of Europe, the United States, China etc.

e If it works as well as it has reported in various peer-reviewed cited studies, then lockdowns, social distancing, masks, and other restrictions on community life will have been proved to be unnecessary and the community will be able to emerge from its current social and economic Covid-19 quagmirereturn and return to its robust pre-pandemic life.

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I suggest that you review the following 3 links and then scan some of the additional material that I previously distributed on testing and on medications.

a. Recent Senate hearing.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftq6lmRlKgQ&feature=emb_logo

b. https://www.israpundit.org/only-a-one-in-17-billion-chance-hydroxychloroquine-doesnt-work-medical-professor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=only-a-one-in-17-billion-chance-hydroxychloroquine-doesnt-work-medical-professor

c. TOP CANADIAN PATHOLOGIST ON COVID: 'GREATEST HOAX EVER PERPETRATED’ audiotape

https://www.israpundit.org/top-canadian-pathologist-on-covid-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated/

Howard Laitin 4916 White Court Torrance CA 90503-2245 hlaitin@gmail.com message phone + fax 310-370-5011

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BACKGROUND READING & LINKS

a. Dr. Harvey Risch of the Yale School of Public Health [harvey.risch@yale.edu ….”The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists[ hydroxychloroquine]. We Need to Start Using It “…..]

b. How to Beat COVID-19 with Daily Quick Tests At Home: Summary by Dr. Mina. Date: August 30, 2020 https://youtu.be/AZWuyvBAWWQ

c. I recommend that you listen to the entire video …. approximately one hour, 24 minutes. In this video 9 licensed and practicing physicians discuss their treatment experience. [ The interviewer is Charlie Kirk. Link one is YouTube, but since it might be taken down, here is Link two ( ISRAPUNDIT.)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2P4-cK_K8&feature=youtu.be

https://www.israpundit.org/the-charlie-kirk-show-nine-doctors-speak-out/

d.. Video : “ Why Lupus Patients May Hold The Key To Whether Hydroxychloroquine Could Work" - link : Why Lupus Patients May Hold The Key To Whether Hydroxychloroquine Could Work – Part 2

https://www.doctoroz.com/episode/covid-19-pandemic-why-lupus-patients-may-hold-key-whether-hydroxychloroquine-could-work-keep?video_id=6147739736001

https://www.doctoroz.com/episode/covid-19-pandemic-why-lupus-patients-may-hold-key-whether-hydroxychloroquine-could-work-keep

TESTING INFORMATION

TESTING people, who carry the coronavirus whether they have obvious signs of infection or do not have obvious signs of infection, will test positive before they become carriers on numerous rapid tests that are nearly immediately available. you should do your own evaluation and not depend upon prior United States approval . Dr Mina explains why the existing structure and charters responsibility of the various existing US government medical institutions make them a roadblock and not functioning highway.

Subject: How to Beat COVID-19 with Daily Quick Tests At Home: Summary by Dr. Mina. Date: August 30, 2020 https://youtu.be/AZWuyvBAWWQ

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Thus give each person [ either periodically or on their way into the classroom, service, restaurant, game/event, transportation, office, store, etc] a simple, inexpensive screening test that can be immediately read by anyone, without any special laboratory equipment.

To get there, it is necessary to recognize the major difference between diagnostic tests – which can detect ultra-low levels of viral RNA – and public health screening tests, which tell you whether you are contagious.

Diagnostics are what doctors use to know why someone is sick. They are a specific kind of test. A diagnostic that a doctor orders must be very good to do what it is meant to do – determine if someone is sick for a specific reason. So it needs to be high sensitivity and high specificity, there’s little wiggle room.

A public health [surveillance] test indicates that something is present which warrants further examination and possible follow-up.[ The criticism of many of these tests is that they fail to detect a positive during the first several days of the infection as the virus count goes up but is still below the threshold of sensitivity. If the tests are administered once a week this should not matter since the person who is infected becomes a transmitter only after several days [? Check out and insert the correct exact range] and the second test a week later should read positive.]

As background,view the following video download https://youtu.be/qKM4MIrfr4k it is an interview by Dr. Kyle Allred [cofounder of MEDCRAM a video educational site with Bobbi Brooke Herrera PhD, cofounder of e25 Bio. Dr Allred is a useful switchboard contact. This means he maintains a wide network and has an inkling of lots of things happening in lots of places. He can be reached at customers@medcram.com Dr Herrera can be reached at info@e25bio.com. He should be a good information source for the current status of simple screening test developments at a large number of firms. These two discussions should yield a lot of payoff in terms of useful contacts, information, etc. MedCram Update 98 for context on rapid daily quick tests and Dr. Mina's research |

https://youtu.be/h7Sv_pS8MgQ

MEDICATION INFORMATION

There are two well-established medications both of which have a long history of safe usage.[ A. Hydroxychloroquine; B Ivermectin]

A. HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE

a. Approximately one hour, 24 minutes. 10 licensed and practicing physicians discuss their treatment experience. [ The interviewer is Charlie Kirk. Link one is YouTube, but since it might be taken down, here is Link two ( ISRAPUNDIT.)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2P4-cK_K8&feature=youtu.be

https://www.israpundit.org/the-charlie-kirk-show-nine-doctors-speak-out/

b... Video : “ Why Lupus Patients May Hold The Key To Whether Hydroxychloroquine Could Work" - link : Why Lupus Patients May Hold The Key To Whether Hydroxychloroquine Could Work – Part 2

https://www.doctoroz.com/episode/covid-19-pandemic-why-lupus-patients-may-hold-key-whether-hydroxychloroquine-could-work-keep?video_id=6147739736001

c.. From HARVEY A. RISCH, MD, PHD , PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, YALE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH ….”The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists[ hydroxychloroquine]. We Need to Start Using It “

As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a crisis, I am fighting for a treatment that the data fully support but which, for reasons having nothing to do with a correct understanding of the science, has been pushed to the sidelines.

As a result, tens of thousands of patients with COVID-19 are dying unnecessarily. Fortunately, the situation can be reversed easily and quickly.I am referring, of course, to the medication hydroxychloroquine. When this inexpensive oral medication is given very early in the course of illness, before the virus has had time to multiply beyond control, it has shown to be highly effective, especially when given in combination with the antibiotics azithromycin or doxycycline and the nutritional supplement zinc.

On May 27, I published an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE) entitled, “Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk COVID-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis.” That article, published in the world’s leading epidemiology journal, analyzed five studies, demonstrating clear-cut and significant benefits to treated patients, plus other very large studies that showed the medication safety

d. Hydroxy Hysteria Reaching a Fever Pitch [Exerpts]

By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. American Thinker 7-31-20 Ever since President Trump mentioned hydroxy as a possible therapeutic, the media have castigated it as worse than rat poison. They’ve criticized any use of it in a constant barrage of fear, telling everyone that this 60-year-old drug would kill anyone who dared tak 8-e it.

Hydroxy was FDA-approved in 1955 and is taken for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. FDA approval means the approved drug is both efficacious and safe. All of a sudden, after 60 years, the FDA decided hydroxy is no longer safe because of, “serious heart rhythm problems and other safety issues, including blood and lymph system disorders, kidney injuries, and liver problems and failure.” If it is so unsafe, why did the FDA not rescind its 60-year-old approval?

It is worth noting that diseases treated by hydroxy for the past half century can cause these problems as well. As can COVID, which if severe, can also cause death. So, the FDA deems it safe to treat those sick with lupus and autoimmune diseases with hydroxy but not those sick or hospitalized with COVID.Several days ago, a group of physicians called “America’s Frontline Doctors held a press conference in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building discussing the coronavirus and hydroxychloroquine. One physician in particular, Dr Stella Immanuel, gave an impassioned shout-out for hydroxy:

I have personally treated over 350 patients with COVID. Patients that have diabetes, patients that have high blood pressure, patients that have asthma, old people … I think my oldest patient is 92 … 87-year old. And the result has been the same. I put them on hydroxychloroquine, I put them on zinc, I put them on Zithromax, and they’re all well.

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Some studies say hydroxy doesn’t work, like giving hydroxy to patients too sick to benefit, already on a ventilator, as in the VA study. Other studies found safety concerns and were published in prestigious medical journals like The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine, only to be discovered to be bogus and retracted. Still other studies, as from the Henry Ford Health System noted that hydroxy cut the death rate in half.

This chart from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons shows a much lower case fatality rate in countries where hydroxy is allowed and encouraged rather than banned or discouraged.

e.Hydroxychloroquine by Emily Benedek The Tablet 8-14-20

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/hydroxychloroquine-morality-tale

Early in the coronavirus pandemic, a survey of the world’s frontline physicians showed hydroxychloroquine to be the drug they considered the most effective at treating COVID-19 patients. That was in early April, shortly after a French study showed it was safe and effective in lowering the virus count, at times in combination with azithromycin. Next we were told hydroxychloroquine was likely ineffective, and also dangerous, and that that French study was flawed and the scientist behind it worthy of mockery. More studies followed, with contradictory results, and then out came what was hailed by some as a definitive study of 96,000 patients showing the drug was most certainly dangerous and ineffective, and indeed that it killed 30% more people than those who didn’t take it. Within days, that study was retracted, with the editor of one of the two most respected medical journals in the Western world conceding it was “a monumental fraud.” And on it went.

f.Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine Cut Death Rate Significantly in COVID-19 Patients, Henry Ford Health System Study Shows July 02, 2020

https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study

DETROIT – Treatment with hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new studypublished by Henry Ford Health System. In a large-scale retrospective analysis of 2,541 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2, 2020 across the system’s six hospitals, the study found 13% of those treated with hydroxychloroquine alone died compared to 26.4% not treated with hydroxychloroquine. None of the patients had documented serious heart abnormalities; however, patients were monitored for a heart condition routinely pointed to as a reason to avoid the drug as a treatment for COVID-19.

The study was published today in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, the peer-reviewed, open-access online publication of the International Society of Infectious Diseases (ISID.org).

Patients treated with hydroxychloroquine at Henry Ford met specific protocol criteria as outlined by the hospital system’s Division of Infectious Diseases. The vast majority received the drug soon after admission; 82% within 24 hours and 91% within 48 hours of admission. All patients in the study were 18 or over with a median age of 64 years; 51% were men and 56% African American.

“The findings have been highly analyzed and peer-reviewed,” said Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of Infectious Disease for Henry Ford Health System, who co-authored the study with Henry Ford epidemiologist Samia Arshad. “We attribute our findings that differ from other studies to early treatment, and part of a combination of interventions that were done in supportive care of patients, including careful cardiac monitoring. Our dosing also differed from other studies not showing a benefit of the drug. And other studies are either not peer reviewed, have limited numbers of patients, different patient populations or other differences from our patients.” Zervos said the potential for a surge in the fall or sooner, and infections continuing worldwide, show an urgency to identifying inexpensive and effective therapies and preventions. “We’re glad to add to the scientific knowledge base on the role and how best to use therapies as we work around the world to provide insight,” he said. “Considered in the context of current studies on the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, our results suggest that the drug may have an important role to play in reducing COVID-19 mortality.”

The study also found those treated with azithromycin alone or a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin also fared slightly better than those not treated with the drugs, according to the Henry Ford data. The analysis found 22.4% of those treated only with azithromycin died, and 20.1% treated with a combination of azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine died, compared to 26.4% of patients dying who were not treated with either medication. “Our analysis shows that using hydroxychloroquine helped save lives,” said neurosurgeon Dr. Steven Kalkanis, CEO, Henry Ford Medical Group and Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer of Henry Ford Health System. “As doctors and scientists, we look to the data for insight. And the data here is clear that there was benefit to using the drug as a treatment for sick, hospitalized patients.”

Henry Ford Health System, as one of the region’s major academic medical centers with more than $100 million in annual research funding, is involved in numerous COVID-19 trials with national and international partners. Henry Ford Health System is a $6.5 billion integrated health system comprised of six hospitals, a health plan, and 250+ sites including medical centers, walk-in and urgent care clinics, pharmacy, eye care facilities and other healthcare retail. Established in 1915 by auto industry pioneer Henry Ford, the health system now has 32,000 employees and remains home to the 1,900-member Henry Ford Medical Group, one of the nation’s oldest physician groups. An additional 2,200 physicians are also affiliated with the health system through the Henry Ford Physician Network. An active participant in medical education and training, the health system has trained nearly 40% of physicians currently practicing in the state and also provides education and training for other health professionals including nurses, pharmacists, radiology and respiratory technicians.

g.. Concerning Hydroxychloroquine .Everyone that I deal with says the secret of success is early use… yet all the negative reports that I’ve seen are based on relatively late use

h.. My oldest granddaughter and her entire team were on a prophylactic regime of Hydroxychloroquine during their assignment to Africa. No one suffered from any side effects.

i.. Encino CA Harvard Medical School MD; board certified in internal medicine and other specialties; UCLA internship and residency and now on the clinical faculty of UCLA; clinic director; in private practice including infectious diseases for more than 30 years has successfully used Hydroxychloroquine with many patients.[ current data to be obtained.] He likens its use to a fire extinguisher and says it is effective very early in the game when symptoms first appear before the virus really gets a toe hold. [“So far in my clinical experience, I can tell you that Hydroxychloroquine/Azithromycin combo has been 100% effective for my CoV patients, when used in conjunction with all of the Integrative …. I employ. Needs to be given early enough in the course of the illness to be maximally effective. Much like a fire extinguisher can put out a small kitchen fire, but if a house is engulfed in flames, you need a fire hose. Doesn’t mean fire extinguishers don’t work for house fires, just need to be used early in the event……”]

j. Phoenix AZ Tufts medical school MD; board-certified in anesthesiology and pain management; clinic manager tells me that all of his associates prescribe Hydroxychloroquine and would use it in their own families.

k.. Torrance CA a local physician prescribed it to both of his elderly parents [ mother late 80s, father early 90s] who tested positive for Covid-19 just before both were taken to the hospital in serious condition. Although the expectations were that one or both would die-both survived and are now both well on the road to recovery. ironically, the mother was selected for a medical test but received the placebo. Otherwise except for Hydroxychloroquine she had no other medication. The physician at the hospital claimed that Hydroxychloroquine was ineffective. The son , in a major article ,claimed otherwise. If the report was to be utilized by CDC they would take the hospital position and chalk it up that it was “ineffective.”

l. Coronavirus at Texas Nursing Home – Hydroxychloroquine Treatment Saves All But 1 Patient

The Resort at Texas nursing home had an outbreak of coronavirus that infected 56 residents and 33 staff members. “Two of our residents had symptoms and that’s when we tested everybody,” said nursing home Executive Director Jan Piveral. 56 residents and 33 staff members were COVID-19 positive. “Our Goal was to make sure we could shelter them in place so we don’t spread it to other people,” Armstrong said. “Then also at the same time treat them so they would get better.”Dr. Robin Armstrong immediately administered hydroxychloroquine to the residents and staff members along with Zpac and Zinc. Only one nursing home patient died since the doctor prescribed the hydroxychloroquine. 55 made it.

When Armstrong began administering Hydroxychloroquine to it was controversial but appeared promising.“If we didn’t make the decision quickly then we could potentially lose 15 to 20% of the residents which was not an option,” said the Doctor. Armstrong’s approach was to begin administering Hydroxychloroquine a Zpac and Zinc just as soon as a resident first started showing symptoms.The patients were being monitored daily. “We did EKGs on each of these patients to make sure they didn’t have the cardiac side effects that everyone talks about,” Armstrong said. “None of our patients did.”Armstrong doesn’t call the Hydroxychloroquine a cure and is aware of all the recent reports that say the drug shouldn’t be used to treat COVID-19.But he points out only one of the nursing homes COVID-19 patients has died.“Everyone who got on treatment who started on treatment is actually doing really well,” he said.

m. Information from Monroe, New York

Since 3/15/20, my team has seen approximately 1354 patients in Monroe, New York with either

test proven or clinically suspected coronavirus infection. The majority of the patients were

treated with only supportive care. The patients with shortness of breath or who are in the high

risk category were treated with the above regimen (approximately 405 patients at this point)..

Of this group and the information provided to me by affiliated medical teams, we have had two

deaths, six hospitalizations for pneumonia, and four intubations (all extubated now). In addition,

I have not heard of any negative side effects other than approximately 10% of patients with

temporary nausea and diarrhea.

In sum, my urgent recommendation is to initiate treatment in the outpatient setting as soon

as possible in accordance with the above. Based on my direct experience, it prevents acute

respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), prevents the need for hospitalization and saves lives.

Conclusion: TREAT AS EARLY AND AS AGGRESSIVELY AS POSSIBLE IN THE OUTPATIENT SETTING

n. MORE THAN 2,304 PHYSICIANS WHO ARE CURRENTLY SUCCESSFULLY TREATING PATIENTS INFECTED WITH THE COVID-19 REPORTED THEIR “ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE” OF THEIR SUCCESS WITH THEIR PATIENTS UTILIZING HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE

An international survey conducted by Sermo, a global health care polling company, of 6,227 physicians in 30 countries found that 37% of those treating COVID-19 patients rated hydroxychloroquine as the “most effective therapy” from a list of 15 options.

The survey also found that the most commonly prescribed treatments are analgesics (56%), azithromycin (41%) and hydroxychloroquine (33%).

Hydroxychloroquine, which is sold under the brand name Plaquenil, was prescribed mainly in the United States for the most severe cases, but not so in other countries.

“Outside the U.S., hydroxychloroquine was equally used for diagnosed patients with mild to severe symptoms whereas in the U.S. it was most commonly used for high risk diagnosed patients,” the survey found.

The 30 nations surveyed included those in Europe, Asia, North America and South America, as well as Australia. No incentives were provided to participate in the poll, conducted March 25-27, according to Sermo.

Hydroxychloroquine usage was most widespread in Spain, where 72% of physicians surveyed said they had prescribed it, followed by Italy at 49%, and least popular in Japan, where 7% had used it to treat COVID-19.

The poll found 23% of U.S. medical professionals had prescribed the drug, which has been FDA-approved for malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

Quoting Sermo CEO Peter Kirk [ which would be direct counter to Dr. Bright’s insistence that these medications be only provided to hospitalized patients] “Physicians should have more of a voice in how we deal with this pandemic and be able to quickly share information with one another and the world,” he said. “With censorship of the media and the medical community in some countries, along with biased and poorly designed studies, solutions to the pandemic are being delayed.”

o. Dr. David Nazarian, Beverly Hills-based physician, diplomate at the American Board of Internal Medicine and founder of My Concierge MD: "If you look [at the] countries where malaria is more prevalent and countries where COVID-19 infections are prevalent, you will find a striking difference. This correlation needs to be explored further as this is not just a mere coincidence,”

https://www.youtube.com/watchv=mV3urNCQOKM&feature=emb_logo Saturday, August 1, 2020 THIS VIDEO WAS REMOVED BY YOU TUBE

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Ivermectin 'Amazingly Successful' in Killing Coronavirus By Tauren Dyson August 9, 2020

An Australian drug known as Ivermectin, which is already in use throughout the world to treat parasitic conditions, is showing great results in killing coronavirus in studies involving patients, according to Sky News.

"Because I'm involved in developing these in the U.S. where all the patients are, there are a number of studies that are amazingly successful. We're talking close to 100%. In fact, we haven't seen a result yet under 100%. It looks like corona is very simple to kill," Professor Thomas Brody, medical director of Australia's Center for Digestive Disease. "It's available as a prescription medication. You wouldn't use it alone ... but you add two other things to it such as doxycycline and zinc."

Ivermectin is already approved by the FDA and is on the World Health Organization's list of model list of essential medicines.

"We had a 14-hospital trial in Bangladesh. We got [cured] 100 out of 100. In China, they tried to reproduce it. They got 60 out of 60 cured ... So I am behind the Ivermectin, doxycycline, zinc treatment because it has very few side effects and is a real killer of coronavirus," Borody said.

Borody said the Ivermectin tablet could cost as little as $2.

About Professor Thomas Borody. Professor Borody is most famous for his ground-breaking work developing the triple therapy cure for peptic ulcers in 1987, which has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and the Australian health system more than $10 billion in medical care and operations.Professor Borody founded the Centre for Digestive Diseases (CDD) in 1984 after a distinguished career with leading hospitals including St Vincent’s in Sydney and the Mayo Clinic in the USA.He is a world-renowned leader in the clinical microbiota dating back to 1988 when he started performing what is now called Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT). In addition, Dr. Borody has established novel therapies in the gastrointestinal field, including areas such as inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, CDI, parasite infestation, and resistant Helicobacter pylori via a bismuth-based ‘Triple Therapy’.

CLOSING GENERAL OBSERVATION The single most effective way to save lives would be to improve infection control in nursing homes.

Providing adequate sanitation and medical care in nursing homes should markedly reduce the covid-19 death rate. And regarding sanitation procedures ,there is a lot for our nursing home administrators and politicians to learn. An excellent source for standards and practices would be the operations of America’s pig farmers (I’m not kidding,…. read the careful procedures that America's pig farmers follow to prevent the spread of infections in their pig breeding facilities.)]

George,

I appreciate your response to my emails. I would have hoped that the both the city of Torrance and the Torrance Unified School District would have appointed a key person to review these materials and make recommendations as to what Torrance could do to promote the maximum functioning of education, commerce, industry, government, health, recreation, etc.

I hope that you are aware that the current restaurant closures of outdoor dining are based on an alluded to CDC study [ which ‘reported” that restaurants and bars accounted for 18% of the reported infections]. Reaction is that this “finding" is based on a correlation ….and that there has been no direct evidence of outdoor or even indoor infection. There has been no ability review the actual “study” but critics point out that the same individuals who are infected also had higher contact percentages with supermarkets, etc.

Other problems are that the number of reported test positives is not the same thing as the number of active infections. Number of test reports does not equal number of patients. Also, Gov. Newsom’s complicated algorithms for counties requires of achieving equivalence for underserved economic communities, This has nothing to do with any medical considerations.

You are probably already aware of the tremendous toll being taken both physically and psychologically on the general population. Increased alcoholism, increased child abuse, increased narcotics abuse, increase spousal abuse , increase in general violence, decrease in educational performance, non treatment or under treatment of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. All of which will have greater long-term negative social and economic impacts than any potential increases in Covid-19 infections which receive prompt and appropriate medical care

Play out the current scenario and ask yourself when and if Torrance will ever open up again. Also ask yourself had the accurate estimates of collateral damage been incorporated in the decision-making at the beginning, what would have been the optimal strategies to employ.

England during the t he maximum Nazi assault on London determined to keep going as normal as possible. Israel during the maximum assault of the intifada developed a strategy of returning to normal as soon as possible. Thus, they kept their buses running. Also when a market or a restaurant was devastated by a bombing, they worked 24/7 to restore the premises and reopen for normal business as soon as possible.

I believe that there are simple, inexpensive, procedures that would guarantee safety at a level much higher than that which is claimed for the current California and Los Angeles County lockdown mandates all the elements are present to fully reopen all schools, churches, synagogues mosques, offices, industrial activities, commercial activities, social and athletic activities, etc. I would like to propose what I believe would be a safe, effective and economical program which will give the the entire American population more assurance of health and safety than do the current pandemic lockdown mandates.

What I have advocated for Torrance , and failed in my advocacy was a multilayered program to safely reopen Torrance by developing and then expanding a sterile bubble. This is a combination of currently available defenses, each not perfect, but in combination yielding a high protective barrier.

Basically, what I have been recommending:

a. All classrooms, offices, stores etc. be equipped with air scrubbers and other ventilation and air purification techniques to make the indoors circulation and air purity at least as robust as the outdoor circulation currently there is an abundance of available information on the use of fans, etc. to increase indoor air circulation. There is an increasing amount of information being released about systems utilizing ultraviolet, ozone, etc. to kill the airborne virus]. [ Also, all surfaces will be wiped down every day with a treatment that has already been approved by the US EPA (which is certified to kill the coronavirus for at least one week).]

b.prophylactic use of hydroxychloroquine;

c.Inexpensive, rapid, easy to read tests which could be self-administered to shoppers, students, religious worshipers, commercial and service workers, etc. who after five to 15 minutes would then be shown to be noninfectious and thus not subject to masking or social distancing requirements.

d. Prompt and effective out-patient treatment to those who’re shown to infected [ rather than having them wait at home to see what happens to them in terms their developing significant symptoms [and the resulting medical complications and disabilities] ,which is the current standard medical practice. [Should any participant(s) present with any symptoms of the virus, then they, their family members and others in very close contact with them should be placed immediately in a treatment program. I would suggest that if the patient was on hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic then he should be switched to Ivermectin as a therapeutic.]

Benefits for the community

a. Substantially reduces the likelihood of transmission of the virus;

b. Provides protection for the most vulnerable [the aged, those with one or more existing medical conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart problems, etc.];

c. Provides prophylactic protection for those who may become exposed to the virus ….and if already exposed to the virus, provides the early" fire extinguisher" type of protection against the increasing buildup of the patient's viral load.

d. At a minimum the community will achieve substantially reduced infection rates probably similar to those Third World countries which routinely utilize hydroxychloroquine as an over-the-counter prophylactic against yellow fever. Data shows that Covid-19 infection rates in those countries has been far below that the infection rates of Europe, the United States, China etc.

e If it works as well as it has reported in various peer-reviewed cited studies, then lockdowns, social distancing, masks, and other restrictions on community life will have been proved to be unnecessary and the community will be able to emerge from its current social and economic Covid-19 quagmirereturn and return to its robust pre-pandemic life.

.

George, I appreciate your response to my emails. I would have hoped that the both the city of Torrance and the Torrance Unified School District would have appointed a key person to review these materials and make recommendations as to what Torrance could do to promote the maximum functioning of education, commerce, industry, government, health, recreation, etc. I hope that you are aware that the current restaurant closures of outdoor dining are based on an alluded to CDC study [ which ‘reported” that restaurants and bars accounted for 18% of the reported infections]. Reaction is that this “finding" is based on a correlation ….and that there has been no direct evidence of outdoor or even indoor infection. There has been no ability review the actual “study” but critics point out that the same individuals who are infected also had higher contact percentages with supermarkets, etc. Other problems are that the number of reported test positives is not the same thing as the number of active infections. Number of test reports does not equal number of patients. Also, Gov. Newsom’s complicated algorithms for counties requires of achieving equivalence for underserved economic communities, This has nothing to do with any medical considerations. You are probably already aware of the tremendous toll being taken both physically and psychologically on the general population. Increased alcoholism, increased child abuse, increased narcotics abuse, increase spousal abuse , increase in general violence, decrease in educational performance, non treatment or under treatment of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. All of which will have greater long-term negative social and economic impacts than any potential increases in Covid-19 infections which receive prompt and appropriate medical care Play out the current scenario and ask yourself when and if Torrance will ever open up again. Also ask yourself had the accurate estimates of collateral damage been incorporated in the decision-making at the beginning, what would have been the optimal strategies to employ. England during the t he maximum Nazi assault on London determined to keep going as normal as possible. Israel during the maximum assault of the intifada developed a strategy of returning to normal as soon as possible. Thus, they kept their buses running. Also when a market or a restaurant was devastated by a bombing, they worked 24/7 to restore the premises and reopen for normal business as soon as possible. I believe that there are simple, inexpensive, procedures that would guarantee safety at a level much higher than that which is claimed for the current California and Los Angeles County lockdown mandates all the elements are present to fully reopen all schools, churches, synagogues mosques, offices, industrial activities, commercial activities, social and athletic activities, etc. I would like to propose what I believe would be a safe, effective and economical program which will give the the entire American population more assurance of health and safety than do the current pandemic lockdown mandates. What I have advocated for Torrance , and failed in my advocacy was a multilayered program to safely reopen Torrance by developing and then expanding a sterile bubble. This is a combination of currently available defenses, each not perfect, but in combination yielding a high protective barrier. Basically, what I have been recommending: a. All classrooms, offices, stores etc. be equipped with air scrubbers and other ventilation and air purification techniques to make the indoors circulation and air purity at least as robust as the outdoor circulation currently there is an abundance of available information on the use of fans, etc. to increase indoor air circulation. There is an increasing amount of information being released about systems utilizing ultraviolet, ozone, etc. to kill the airborne virus]. [ Also, all surfaces will be wiped down every day with a treatment that has already been approved by the US EPA (which is certified to kill the coronavirus for at least one week).] b.prophylactic use of hydroxychloroquine; c.Inexpensive, rapid, easy to read tests which could be self-administered to shoppers, students, religious worshipers, commercial and service workers, etc. who after five to 15 minutes would then be shown to be noninfectious and thus not subject to masking or social distancing requirements. d. Prompt and effective out-patient treatment to those who’re shown to infected [ rather than having them wait at home to see what happens to them in terms their developing significant symptoms [and the resulting medical complications and disabilities] ,which is the current standard medical practice. [Should any participant(s) present with any symptoms of the virus, then they, their family members and others in very close contact with them should be placed immediately in a treatment program. I would suggest that if the patient was on hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic then he should be switched to Ivermectin as a therapeutic.] Benefits for the community a. Substantially reduces the likelihood of transmission of the virus; b. Provides protection for the most vulnerable [the aged, those with one or more existing medical conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart problems, etc.]; c. Provides prophylactic protection for those who may become exposed to the virus ….and if already exposed to the virus, provides the early" fire extinguisher" type of protection against the increasing buildup of the patient's viral load. d. At a minimum the community will achieve substantially reduced infection rates probably similar to those Third World countries which routinely utilize hydroxychloroquine as an over-the-counter prophylactic against yellow fever. Data shows that Covid-19 infection rates in those countries has been far below that the infection rates of Europe, the United States, China etc. e If it works as well as it has reported in various peer-reviewed cited studies, then lockdowns, social distancing, masks, and other restrictions on community life will have been proved to be unnecessary and the community will be able to emerge from its current social and economic Covid-19 quagmirereturn and return to its robust pre-pandemic life. .

For Trump advocate Sidney Powell, a playbook steeped in conspiracy theories Aaron Davis, Josh Dawsey, Emma Brown, Jon Swaine WASHINGTON POST 11-29-20 Fast forward two decades — through a bitter case she says shook her faith in the U.S. justice system — and there was Powell at a lectern at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee, introduced as an attorney representing President Trump. At the Nov. 19 news conference, before a national television audience, she asserted that “communist money,” the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and a manipulated computer algorithm were all connected in a secret plot that had altered potentially millions of ballots and stolen the election from Trump. Trump campaign lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani claimed Nov. 19 that President Trump lost the election because of a baseless conspiracy theory. (Zach Purser Brown/The Washington Post) Powell did not stop there. In an interview two days later with the conservative outlet Newsmax, she said she had been given evidence — which she said she could not disclose — that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican and an ally of the president, had taken bribes and conspired to orchestrate Trump’s defeat. Nationwide, she estimated that “thousands” of local elections officials knowingly helped carry out the master scheme to tamper with ballots. In fact, Powell claimed, if anyone bothered to look, they’d probably find that U.S. elections had been rigged for decades. In important places, the headspinning allegations did not land well. Trump watched from the White House as his usual cast of sympathetic proxies — including Fox News’s Tucker Carlson and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie — turned on Powell, according to an official familiar with the events, who like others interviewed for this report spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe confidential or private interactions at the White House and at Trump’s campaign offices. On ABC’s Sunday talk show, Christie said Powell’s comments had tipped the president’s legal efforts to challenge the outcome of the election into a “national embarrassment.” In calls to the White House, several GOP senators warned that Powell seemed unhinged, two officials said. Powell, at least for the time being, had gone too far. On Nov. 22, two of the president’s attorneys, Rudolph W. Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, issued a statement saying that Powell was, in fact, not representing Trump — a remark that was true in that Powell had not yet been paid by the campaign, Trump campaign officials said and Powell has acknowledged. For Powell, however, the banishment became not a defeat but a new opportunity, one mirroring and supported by Trump’s continued refusal to concede and by his insistence that the results are fraudulent. Powell has remained a leading purveyor of outlandish allegations about the election, at a time when polls show that the great majority of Trump voters do not believe Democrat Joe Biden was the legitimate winner. In alleging broad conspiracies and questioning the motives and actions of multiple government institutions and officials, she has followed a playbook she has drawn from in the past. As Powell pressed claims that the election was stolen from Trump, the president on Wednesday pardoned her most famous client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Powell also launched a fundraising effort that she said would support her work to expose fraud in the election, writing online that “millions of dollars must be raised to defend the Republic.” Almost immediately after the Trump team distanced itself from her, some of Powell’s supporters began suggesting on social media that the move might have been a ploy to give her the leeway to be more aggressive in court. That idea spread quickly, particularly among followers of the QAnon movement, whose absurd beliefs include that Trump and his allies are preparing to vanquish a cabal of “deep state” child abusers and Satan-worshipping Democrats. “Be patient, there is a strategy,” came a message on Monday from an account that frequently posts QAnon theories. “Sidney is working for WeThePeople. WeThePeople who seek reelection of The president.” On Tuesday evening, Trump himself signaled renewed interest in Powell’s claims. He retweeted an interview in which Powell told Fox’s Lou Dobbs that software made by the company Dominion Voting Systems and used in 28 states had been designed to allow Chávez to manipulate election results in Venezuela, a discredited claim. The president also retweeted a message in which conservative Georgia attorney Lin Wood said Powell would file suit Wednesday laying out new evidence of voter fraud in Georgia. “Enemies of America will deny its allegations. Do NOT believe them. Believe Sidney & me. We love America & freedom. Our enemies do not,” Wood wrote. After Powell posted a typo-ridden draft of the complaint on her website close to midnight on Wednesday, Trump on Thanksgiving retweeted a conservative podcaster saying the suit would seek to make Georgia declare Trump the winner of the state. The filing, which became available Friday on the court’s website, showed the complaint to the U.S. “Districct Court, Northern Distrcoict of Georgia” alleges “ballot-stuffing” through manipulation of Dominion’s electronic voting systems that is “virtually invisible.” The 104-page filing — signed by Powell, Wood and two other attorneys — names Georgia’s governor, its secretary of state and elections officials and makes at least a dozen previously disputed or debunked claims about lax security of Dominion’s machines, its ownership and alleged foreign entanglements. Among them is that the company was “founded by foreign oligarchs and dictators to ensure computerized ballot-stuffing and vote manipulation to whatever level was needed” to keep Chávez in power for life. No hearings in the case have yet been scheduled, but on Thanksgiving, Denver-based Dominion released a blistering 15-point rebuttal, calling the lawsuit malicious and a “bizarre election fraud conspiracy” that is “baseless, senseless, physically impossible, and unsupported by any evidence whatsoever.” “Dominion was not ‘founded by oligarchs and dictators.’ It was founded in Toronto, Canada, and it is now a proud nonpartisan American company,” the company said, adding that no single company in the American electoral systems could surreptitiously change votes as Powell alleged. Such a plot would require “collaboration of thousands” of Republicans, Democrats, poll workers, auditors and contractors that support state information technology and voting systems. “It is important to understand that this is not possible — not on a machine-by-machine basis, not by alleged hacking, not by manipulating software, and not by imagined ways of ‘sending’ votes to overseas locations,” Dominion said, noting that its devices create an auditable paper trail of every vote cast in Georgia. “Georgia handcounts, independent audits, and machine tests have all repeatedly affirmed that the machine counts were accurate.” The lawsuit was much anticipated on the right — Powell had said that it and her other court filings would “release the kraken,” a reference to a mythical sea monster that quickly went viral. Online, supporters had a ready explanation for the typos and other errors: They were intentional and meant to draw media attention to the complaint. Powell did not respond to phone and text messages seeking comment for this story. Since the election, the Trump campaign has repeatedly alleged widespread fraud in the 2020 election. In court, his lawyers say the opposite. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post) Virginia-based lawyer Jesse Binnall, who has worked with Powell on the Flynn case and is challenging election results for the Trump campaign in Nevada, said that it is “because of her tenacity and her courage that the truth ultimately came out in the Flynn case and will ultimately come out here.” Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, was pardoned, not acquitted. The Supreme Court has ruled that accepting a pardon is akin to an admission of guilt. 'A fine young lawyer' Powell, 65, grew up in Raleigh, N.C., where her father worked for GMAC, the finance arm of General Motors. Powell has said she was an avid “Perry Mason” viewer and wanted to be a lawyer by the fourth grade. At Needham Broughton High School, she made the National Honor Society and was listed in “Who’s Who” of high-achieving seniors. Powell became known as a young woman in a hurry. In 1979, after she had completed a bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina in just 21 months and swiftly passed through UNC’s law school, a local newspaper illustrated a story on her with a cartoon of Powell racing across the graduation day stage in a high-speed blur, her cap trailing behind. At the age of 23, Powell was hired as an assistant U.S. attorney in San Antonio, a distinction she has many times said made her then the youngest federal prosecutor in the country. She joined an office that was under siege after taking on the region’s major drug traffickers. Weeks before Powell was sworn in, another assistant U.S. attorney survived an assassination attempt; a few months later, a judge was murdered. Several of Powell’s new colleagues were under protection by U.S. marshals. Sue Boyd, whose husband, Jamie, was the U.S. attorney when Powell joined, said she had fond memories of Powell visiting their apartment to discuss cases with her boss, including their successful prosecution of drug kingpin Jamiel “Jimmy” Chagra. Boyd said she has been shocked by Powell’s recent turn to extreme views and conspiracy theories. “This is not the Sidney I knew,” said Boyd. “I remember a fine young lawyer and a responsible person.” Powell moved to the Northern District of Texas, based in Dallas, and according to a biography on her firm’s website began an appellate section for the prosecutor’s office. After a decade at the Justice Department, Powell took a job at Dallas white-shoe firm Strasburger & Price. She then set up her own boutique appellate outfit, with addresses in Dallas and Asheville, N.C. By 1989, Powell was president of the bar association for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. In the mid-1990s, Powell got engaged to Roger K. Parsons, a Texas physicist, who hired her for legal representation after the death of his wife in a plane crash in Malaysia. Powell helped Parsons file malpractice claims against lawyers who had won him more than $4 million in damages from the plane’s owners, arguing that he should have been entitled to more, court filings show. Windle Turley, an attorney Parsons sued unsuccessfully, said Powell appeared to advise Parsons poorly as the widower embarked on a years-long legal campaign that has alleged conspiracy theories and coverups related to the crash. “It’s unfortunate that any lawyer would not see that Parsons needed help other than legal assistance,” Turley said in an interview. Parsons rejected Turley’s remarks, saying in an email that his lawsuits were well founded and that Turley was not “in a position to be directing anyone’s need for counseling, legal or otherwise.” Yet Parsons also said that Powell had changed since they broke off their engagement. “The Sidney Powell I knew then, like me, believed that a case justified by the facts and the law should most times succeed before a jury and judge,” he said. “I do not know the Sidney Powell I saw representing the Trump campaign.” Powell was married and divorced twice between 1980 and 1995 and has a son who now works as a financial consultant. In the early 2000s, Powell listed her state of residence as North Carolina. While there, she registered as a Democrat, records show. In 2005, she moved her registration to Texas, where voters do not declare a party affiliation. In 2007, she donated $1,000 to the presidential primary campaign of former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.). Scarred by Enron case It was in Texas — four years into a wave of prosecutions, lawsuits and appeals stemming from the 2001 bankruptcy of energy giant Enron Corp. — where Powell took on a case she would later say shook her view of the U.S. justice system. Her client, James A. Brown, an executive of Merrill Lynch & Co., had been found guilty of several crimes in a complicated side chapter of the bankruptcy, one centered around Enron’s sale of its stake in Nigerian energy barges to the New York bank. In 2006, after a year working his appeal, Powell and other lawyers successfully argued that the Fifth Circuit should overturn Merrill executives’ convictions on conspiracy and wire fraud charges. The appeals court let stand Brown’s convictions on perjury and obstruction. Brown did not respond to messages seeking comment for this story. Powell returned to the lower court to seek a new trial on those charges, arguing that new evidence had come to light and that her client had been the victim of “egregious” prosecutorial misconduct. In 2010, Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. of the Southern District of Texas rejected Powell’s argument. In a detailed 63-page decision, Werlein noted that out of a huge amount of materials presented in court, Powell’s attempt to argue her position was based on “excerpted pieces, phrases, and out-of-context passages.” Powell appealed that decision to the Fifth Circuit as well. She claimed that prosecutors failed to disclose evidence that would have buttressed Brown’s defense if his lawyers had known about it. A three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit found that federal prosecutors had turned over much of the evidence in question to Werlein, the trial judge, to determine whether it needed to be provided to Brown’s lawyers. Werlein had ruled it did not, and said summaries of the evidence would suffice. In a unanimous ruling, the panel found that some of the prosecutors’ raw notes contained favorable information for Brown but upheld Werlein’s decision, saying the information would not have had a meaningful impact on his defense. The appeals court found that there was ample evidence of Brown’s guilt. Powell continued filing ethics complaints against members of DOJ’s Enron Task Force. Among them was Andrew Weissmann, who by then was general counsel to the FBI. The complaint against him was ultimately dismissed, Powell later wrote. In Powell’s view, the lack of repercussions for Weissmann and others was evidence that the justice system was fundamentally broken and could not be trusted to police itself. In 2014, she published the book “Licensed to Lie,” which argued that ambitious, aggressive federal prosecutors have been allowed to break the law with impunity and run roughshod over the rights of individuals and businesses. “The prosecutors truly responsible for these injustices are not only unscathed but flourishing,” Powell wrote. “Until these prosecutors are convicted in the court of public opinion, or disbarred, these very powerful and politically connected lawyers are still licensed to lie.” Weissmann, who was soon to become chief of the fraud section within DOJ’s criminal division, was referenced nearly 100 times in the book. On a website she set up promoting the book, she took to describing him as “a true villain” of her tale. The book gained purchase with conservatives. In 2015, then-Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) called it “powerful” during the Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, and urged her to read it. “If even half of it is true,” Hatch said, “you have a lot of work to do to clean up the department.” But Powell saw forces at work to keep the book from becoming a mainstream hit. In 2015, she said she believed the federal government and unnamed others were deliberately suppressing its sales. Powell claimed that Barnes & Noble refused to stock it and Amazon labeled it sold out when copies were available. “The New York Times refused to review the book, even though some noted people wanted to write a review of it,” she told an interviewer from WZAB radio in Sweetwater, Fla. “The New York Post was going to publish an article about it, but reached out to Department of Justice for comment and all of a sudden pulled the article. Been no mention of it since. No way to get through to them.” Powell kept writing, penning a series of opinion articles for the website of the New York Observer, which was at the time owned by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Some of Powell’s pieces targeted long-standing foes, including Weissmann and Lynch, while others castigated Hillary Clinton, Trump’s 2016 opponent, for her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Two former editors at the paper said Powell was brought on as a contributor by Ken Kurson, a close friend of Kushner’s who was then the top editor. In a brief interview, Kurson confirmed that he personally edited Powell’s copy. “She pitched me an article and I liked it,” Kurson said. “I didn’t know her, and I don’t believe she knew Jared.” Kushner did not respond to a message seeking comment. Soon Powell would have a much bigger audience. In May 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel to investigate alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. One of Mueller’s first hires: Weissmann. “#Mueller hiring out of my book! #Weissmann now,” tweeted Powell, tagging President Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Kushner and others The following month, former House speaker Newt Gingrich tweeted: “Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice: by Sidney Powell is about to become a very important book-explains a lot.” Star turn Powell and her book started getting more airtime on conservative radio and television, especially Fox News. “Meet a woman named Sidney Powell,” Sean Hannity told his audience in November 2017. “She worked at the DOJ for a decade. She believes that one of Mueller’s top investigators, Andrew Weissmann, has a documented history of using strong-arm tactics to seek convictions, unethical behavior.” Powell was ready when the camera turned to her. “Andrew Weissmann is the poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct,” she said. He’s one of a “a corrupt cabal of former prosecutors and now current prosecutors again who are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve whatever they want to achieve.” Weissmann declined to comment for this story and has not responded to her public attacks on him. When Mueller’s office began indicting Trump allies in relation to the Russia probe, Powell appeared repeatedly on Fox News to argue that the prosecution was hollow. Trump regularly saw her arguments, officials said, and appreciated them, particularly on the show of his ally Lou Dobbs. “Neither Mr. Mueller nor Andrew Weissmann are interested in the truth, whatsoever,” she told Fox News host Mark Levin. In November 2018, Powell spoke at a conference in Dallas organized to raise money for the legal defense fund for Flynn, who by then had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and agreed to cooperate with Mueller. The event was billed as a “who’s who of political leaders; each dedicating themselves to exposing the Deep State and supporting a great American patriot and hero.” Powell delivered a talk titled “Creeps on a Mission to Destroy the President,” and she met with Flynn’s sister and brother on the sidelines of the conference, Politico reported. After Powell took over Flynn’s defense, in June 2019, the case became a legal roller coaster. Over several months, Powell sought to have U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan toss Flynn’s case, arguing misconduct by prosecutors and suggesting the government was going after Flynn to embarrass Trump. In January, Flynn asked to withdraw his guilty plea, alleging prosectors breached his cooperation agreement by demanding false testimony. The government pushed back against motions seeking documents, arguing that Powell was demanding “a fishing expedition” to support her theories. Prosecutors also disclosed that Powell wrote to Attorney General William P. Barr in June 2019, asking in “utmost confidentiality” that he appoint an outsider to review Flynn’s case, an examination she felt would lead to its dismissal. Barr ultimately did as she suggested. Powell wrote the letter — which disparaged prosecutors as well as Sullivan — on Flynn’s behalf without notifying his then-defense attorneys. In court, Sullivan described the letter as unusual and asked whether “it was ethical to write on behalf of someone you didn’t represent.” Powell replied that at the time she had begun representing Flynn and merely had not filed paperwork with the court reflecting that. In the course of a hearing in September, Powell revealed that she had personally briefed the president on the case. 'Important News Conference' Powell is friendly with Ellis, the campaign attorney, according to two officials with knowledge of the inner workings of the Trump campaign. But precisely how Powell came to be a leading face of Trump’s election challenges, and onstage last week at the RNC news conference, remains a mystery even to some who have long been deeply involved in the campaign, they said. Powell, according to a third campaign official, simply showed up at headquarters a couple of days after the election. “She was not involved whatsoever in the conventional campaign legal structure or the RNC legal structure,” the official said. “She was totally on the outside. She had not been involved whatsoever.” Powell, the official said, began pressing the campaign to focus suspicion on Dominion Voting Systems. She told Trump campaign officials that the Dominion strategy was ideal because it would draw into question the accuracy of voting in so many states, the official said. The two other officials said that when Trump’s actual lawyers sought evidence from her, she produced none. Campaign lawyers Justin Clark and Matt Morgan told others they should not present the Dominion theory because there was no evidence for it, the two officials said. The campaign official who was surprised by her sudden involvement said she did not seem interested in having the evidence. “What you saw with Sidney Powell and Rudy, it wasn’t shoot first and ask questions later. It was shoot first and don’t ask questions at all,” that official said. Some RNC and campaign lawyers decided to avoid all meetings where Powell was present, this person said. The night before the Nov. 19 news conference, Ellis, Giuliani, Powell — and Flynn — were all together, the official said. Early the next morning, Trump tweeted a promo: “Important News Conference today by lawyers on a very clear and viable path to victory. Pieces are very nicely falling into place. RNC at 12 p.m.” Spencer S. Hsu contributed to this report.