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- A member of Trump’s legal team, Sidney Powell, has been removed, according to a statement released by Rudy Giuliani.
- Powell was widely mocked for making baseless accusations and launching conspiracy theories about the recent elections.
- Despite claims to the contrary from the Trump campaign, Joe Biden is poised to win the popular vote by overwhelming, as well as the Electoral College vote.
Washington – Donald Trump’s campaign announced Sunday that it was no longer working with a member of the president’s legal team who was widely mocked for alleging unfounded conspiracy theories related to the Nov. 3 election.
“Sidney Powell is practicing law on his own. He is not a member of Trump’s legal team,” the president’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said in a statement.
“She is also not the president’s attorney in a personal capacity.”
Sidney Powell speaking during a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC, on November 19, 2020.
Trump tweeted Nov. 14 that Powell would be a member of his legal team, along with Giuliani and campaign legal counsel Jenna Ellis.
The team has sought to overturn election results in several states, including the key battlefields of Pennsylvania and Michigan, all of which voted for Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.
Giuliani’s announcement about Powell comes just days after an extraordinary 90-minute press conference at the Republican National Committee in Washington, during which members of the legal team argued, without evidence, that a broad “national conspiracy” to deny Trump’s reelection was underway.
Scathing judgment
Powell in particular claimed that Trump had defeated Biden in a landslide, despite Biden winning 306 votes in the electoral college, 36 more than needed to win the White House, compared to 232 for Trump.
Biden is set to win the popular vote by more than six million votes.
Powell also claimed during the press conference that Cuba, Venezuela and other “communist” nations may have been linked to an election hack that robbed Trump of millions of votes.
Before working with Trump’s legal team, Powell had defended former aide to the president Michael Flynn, who is accused of lying about his contacts in Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
Powell’s firing comes the day after a Pennsylvania judge threw out Trump’s claims in the state in a scathing trial.
Judge Matthew Brann wrote that the president’s team had presented “tense legal arguments without merit and speculative allegations” in their complaints about vote-by-mail ballots in Pennsylvania.
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