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By Reuters 
1 hour ago
Jan Wolfe
Washington – President Donald Trump’s election campaign issued a statement Sunday distancing itself from Sidney Powell, a lawyer who made unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud at a press conference Thursday.
“Sidney Powell is practicing law on his own,” Trump’s campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said in the statement. “She is not a member of Trump’s legal team.”
The announcement came a day after a judge dismissed a campaign lawsuit seeking to stop President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, dealing a major blow to Trump’s efforts to reverse his Nov. 3 electoral defeat. .
Powell, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump had referred to Powell as one of his attorneys in a Nov. 14 tweet.
“Rudy Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, a great team, joined our other wonderful attorneys and representatives,” Trump said in the tweet.
Powell, without providing proof, said last week that electronic voting systems had changed millions of ballots in favor of Biden.
Tucker Carlson, an influential Fox News anchor, criticized Powell on Thursday for the lack of evidence to support his claims.
“She never demonstrated that a single real vote was illegally moved by software from one candidate to another. Not a single one,” Carlson said.
US Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa who won re-election in this month’s vote, told a Fox News radio show Thursday that Powell’s accusations were “offensive.”
Powell is currently representing Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, in his effort to end a lengthy criminal case against him.
Democrats and some Republicans have accused Trump of trying to undermine faith in the American electoral system and delegitimize Biden’s victory by promoting false claims of widespread voter fraud.
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