RETRACTION: The Western Journal has retracted this article, which was based on an Op-Ed published by The Daily Caller. Upon further research, it was determined that the Op-Ed was based on a misreading by its author, former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, of a federal filing. Powell apparently neglected the presence of a footnote in a court document that explained the (admittedly complex) pattern of document production that looked suspicious to Powell without that explanation. We regret the error.

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