Former President Donald Trump's lawyer Sidney Powell called a top Pentagon official in the aftermath of the 2020 election to warn him that CIA Director Gina Haspel was stuck in Germany after traveling to the country on a secret election-related mission.
ABC News' Jonathan Karl writes in his new book, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show, that Powell had been hoodwinked by a 'false conspiracy theory that had been gaining steam among QAnon followers.'
'Gina Haspel has been hurt and taken into custudy in Germany,' Powell reportedly informed DOD official Ezra Cohen. 'You need to launch a special operations mission to get her.'
According to Karl's book, Powell was pursuing a conspiracy theory that a server located in Germany held evidence that thousands or even millions of votes had been switched.
'Kraken' lawyer Sidney Powell was pursuing a conspiracy theory that a server located in Germany held evidence that thousands or even millions of votes had been switched, and that CIA Director Gina Haspel had been hurt and taken into custody there
CIA Director Gina Haspel was not arrested, injured, or found dead, despite conspiracy theories to the contrary, Reuters reported
DOD official Ezra Cohen received calls after the election from both Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn
Haspel was in Germany to destroy that evidence, Powell surmised.
Powell wanted Cohen to 'send a special operations team over to Germany.'
'They needed to get the server and force Haspel to confess,' Karl wrote.
Cohen, Karl wrote, 'thought Powell sounded out of her mind,' and reported the conversation up the chain, informing acting
