Dallas attorney Sidney Powell, who made false allegations about the 2020 election in Tarrant County, pleaded guilty to reduced charges Thursday over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in Georgia.
Former Tarrant County elections administrator Heider Garcia detailed Powell’s baseless claims in 2022 in written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Before he worked in the public sector, Garcia had worked for 13 years Smartmatic, the elections company that sued Fox News for defamation over its election fraud claims.
“Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani made baseless accusations of voter fraud and manipulation of election results,” Garcia wrote in his testimony. He said they “accused Smartmatic, one of my former employers, as one of the two main actors of ‘the steal,’ and from there the conspiracy theories about Tarrant County just spiraled out of control. But it was not indirect references, it was also direct accusations from Ms. Powell herself:
“• On the Lou Dobbs show she stated ‘… we know that one of the Smartmatic people went to Tarrant County, Texas and turned that county blue.’
“• On Twitter she posted ‘Gee whiz! I wonder how #TarrantCounty Texas went #blue so easily after hiring a #Smartmatic guy?!’, with a picture of me included.
“• On a separate post on Twitter, she stated ‘And #Tarrant County just went #blue?! What a coincidence! #ImpoundTheMachines #DominionVotingSystems #Smartmatic What could possibly go wrong with company called #Dominion?’”
Garcia resigned...
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