Ledger · First term · № 152
Proof of 2020 election fraud, always days away — and the 'Kraken'
Never delivered“[paraphrase] Big news coming. We have tremendous evidence and you'll see it very soon. / Sidney Powell: 'I'm going to release the Kraken.'”
- Promised
- , Trump tweets and campaign statements; Sidney Powell on Fox Business's 'Lou Dobbs Tonight'
- Stated deadline
- “coming soon / within days” → November 8, 2020
- Overdue by
- 5 years, 10 months as of September 22, 2026
- Re-promised
- 8 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Elections
- Era
- First term
What happened
The evidence never materialised. A promised fraud press conference was cancelled on his attorneys' advice. Attorney General Bill Barr said on December 1, 2020 that the Justice Department had found no fraud on a scale that would change the outcome. Trump and his allies lost or withdrew roughly 60 of 62 post-election lawsuits, and the Supreme Court rejected the Texas case on December 11, 2020. Powell's 'Kraken' suits in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona were all dismissed; she pleaded guilty to misdemeanour conspiracy charges in Fulton County in October 2023.