Trump Campaign Says Controversial Lawyer Sidney Powell Is No Longer on President’s Legal Team
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The Trump campaign released a statement Sunday, denying that attorney Sidney Powell is in any way associated with their legal team. "Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team," the statement from Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis read. "She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity."
Wow. The Trump campaign has issued a statement saying that Sidney Powell is not associated with them.
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This comes after she’s been alleging some incredibly nonsensical stuff over the past week.
But...the campaign had Powell on stage at their press conference earlier this week! pic.twitter.com/bLTmGfOp4T— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 22, 2020
It was a shocking turn of events, since earlier this month, Trump essentially listed his legal team on Twitter and included Powell's name, further proving that with Trump, there's always a tweet.
Got it pic.twitter.com/UvRGF80fXz
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) November 22, 2020
The announcement comes just days after the GOP's Twitter account quoted Powell, who was quite vocal during a recent press conference alongside Giuliani and Ellis, where she vowed to prove that Trump actually won the 2020 election with evidence that has not yet materialized.
2. Just three days ago, the official GOP twitter account was tweeting out videos of Sidney Powell at the press conference.
Now they’re saying she’s not involved in the campaign and doesn’t represent the president. pic.twitter.com/RTbbrxqfuu— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 22, 2020
As recently as Saturday, Powell made an appearance on Newsmax, where she was identified as an attorney for "President Trump's legal team."
Last night on @Newsmax: Sidney Powell, identified as "attorney, President Trump's legal team." Anchor @SchmittNYC took her totally 🤯🤬 claims Very Seriously pic.twitter.com/vtP4SfpfIE
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 22, 2020
So why the sudden about-face? While there is something naturally concerning about Powell's habit of propping up and retweeting QAnon conspiracy theories, it's not beneath Trump to get behind anything that would support his faulty election fraud narrative.
Sidney Powell, one of the lawyers in the Trump campaign’s failing legal effort to flip the election results, went on a retweet binge of a leading QAnon conspiracy theory content creator. Only the best for Trump! pic.twitter.com/DMcO89duse
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) November 22, 2020
But it seems as though Powell may have gone a little too far in the aforementioned Newsmax appearance, which was off the rails to say the least.
"Georgia's probably going to be the first state I'm gonna blow up," Powell said, per Newsweek. "We've got tons of evidence. It's so much, it's hard to pull it all together. Hopefully, this week we will get it ready to file, and it will be biblical." Even though she has refused to provide any evidence to support these claims, neither has Trump, so what's the big deal, right?
It appears that Powell aimed her conspiracy theories at the wrong people when she claimed that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger were paid for their role in the conspiracy, which has since been proven false, that Dominion Voting Systems deleted 2.7 million votes for Trump, and switched others for Joe Biden. "And Mr. Kemp and the secretary of state need to go with it because they're in on the Dominion scam with their last-minute purchase or reward of a contract to Dominion of $100 million," she said.
Powell's remarks presumably created a divide between the Trump campaign and Kemp, a Republican, as well as Raffensperger, a Trump supporter. "I wish he would have won, and especially in Georgia," Raffensperger said of Trump in an interview with CNN's Amara Walker on Friday. "I certainly cast my vote for him, but the results are what the results are."
Meanwhile, the GOP may also be trying to distance itself from Powell and her efforts to discourage confidence in the election process in the state of Georgia, which is set to have two runoffs in January with control of the Senate hanging in the balance.
Needless to say, the reaction the statement from Trump's campaign made waves online.
And it was all going so well. https://t.co/eBZnmZhmsb
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) November 22, 2020
How it started. How it’s going. pic.twitter.com/hxyjghI4VV
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) November 22, 2020
Imagine being too wacky to work with Rudy. https://t.co/UgaSUiV3hd
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) November 22, 2020
Sidney Powell is to Rudy Giuliani as tertiary syphilis is to syphilis. https://t.co/iCSgXXNUxY
— Frank Lesser (@sadmonsters) November 22, 2020
Sidney Powell was a federal prosecutor. I kinda think someone needs to review her cases.
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) November 22, 2020
I’m old enough to remember when they all had a press conference together... on Thursday. https://t.co/zbibgszcDu
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) November 22, 2020
You might say the Trump legal team ... released the Kraken pic.twitter.com/SLb2rWnpXN
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) November 22, 2020
PUT THE KRAKEN BACK SUBMERGE THE KRAKEN https://t.co/Hd1VPSO1CF pic.twitter.com/NMvphxuPcP
— April Wolfe (@AWolfeful) November 22, 2020
The Kraken was crackin? The Kraken goes packin? The Kraken took a shellackin? The Kraken was hijackin? Help me out here
— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) November 22, 2020
Sidney Powell is out. Were her conspiracy theories too much even for President Trump? pic.twitter.com/pTVW14rzOO
— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) November 22, 2020
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