MONSTER CLAIM
A PRO-TRUMP lawyer has invoked a mythical monster to allege massive voter fraud at the recent election.
The attorney who made the unsubstantiated claim is Sidney Powell, who also represents Trump's former National Security Adviser .
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Who is Sidney Powell?
Powell is a longtime lawyer and author who grew up in North Carolina.
The lawyer "has been lead counsel in more than 500 federal appeals - 350 of them as an Assistant United States Attorney and Appellate Section Chief in the Western and Northern Districts of Texas," according to her online bio.
The conservative television personality has also appeared as a pundit on numerous cable news shows.
What did Powell say about the 2020 presidential election?
Powell told Fox Business News that Trump "won this election in a landslide" - even though President-elect Joe Biden .
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She said that the fraud was “organized and conducted with the help of Silicon Valley people, the big tech companies, the social media companies and even the media companies.”
Powell announced to the Fox Business News audience that she was "going to release the Kraken."
This was to suggest she had a trove of evidence of widespread voter fraud that she would release to overturn the presidential election.
Who won the 2020 presidential election?
President-elect Joe Biden
won the presidential election in decisive fashion.
Biden has 290 electoral votes, compared to 232 for .
The Democrat also dominated Trump in the popular vote, accumulating more than 79million.
Biden of the US and move into the White House with his family on January 20, 2021.
No evidence has yet been presented - and Powell's statement was met with much ridicule online.
"They said they were going to release the kraken and the kraken turned out to be Rudy Giuliani!" one Twitter user wrote.
Wrote another: "The Republican cases for voter fraud are such BS even extinct dinosaurs from hell are worried about their reputations being tarnished and want nothing to do with this nonsense....."
"Republicans: 'Release the Kraken.' Rudy: 'Just gimme a few minutes,'" wrote another Twitter user.
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Is Sidney Powell no longer on Trump's legal team?
President has appeared to after Fox News host .
In a statement released on November 22, the Trump 2020 campaign said the conservative attorney is "not a lawyer" for his legal team.
" is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump legal team," the statement reads.
Powell who is a , is also "not a lawyer for the president in his personal capacity," the campaign added.
The statement was signed by the president's lawyer and Trump campaign senior legal adviser .
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What does 'release the Kraken' mean?
"Release the Kraken" is a famous line uttered by Liam Neeson in the 2010 action movie Clash of the Titans.
Neeson plays Zeus in the movie. The plot of the movie centers around the attempt by his brother Hades to plunge the world into chaos and darkness.
Hades, the god of the underworld, is played by Ralph Fiennes.
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Sam Worthington's Perseus would fight the Kraken, a giant monster, as part of the climax of the film.
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Clash of the Titans was a remake of a 1981 film where the famous line was uttered by iconic thespian Laurence Olivier.
A young Harry Hamlin also starred in the film.
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