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The campaign of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has distanced itself from a lawyer who made accusations of fraud in the last presidential elections.
Attorney Sidney Powell had claimed, without evidence, that the electronic voting system had diverted the votes of millions of voters in favor of President-elect John Biden.
The lawyer also claimed that Biden won the election with “the financial support of the Socialists.”
So far, Trump has refused to admit that he lost the election, claiming that there was widespread fraud in the election despite Biden winning by a wide margin.
After the voting results come out, Biden is expected to get around 306 votes in the electoral college, which is well above the 270 votes needed to win the presidential race.
The Trump campaign said Powell was practicing his work away from her and did not have an official relationship with her.
An official campaign statement quoted Trump’s attorneys, Rudy Giuliani and Gina Ellis, as saying, “She is not related to us or the Trump judicial team, nor is she an attorney representing the president on a personal level.”
In a statement to CBS, Powell said he “understands the release of this statement by Rudy Giuliani and Gina Ellis,” but plans to file a lawsuit alleging voter fraud.
Giuliani and Ellis were present alongside Powell at Thursday’s press conference, in which he said without proof that the electronic electoral system had diverted millions of votes from Trump to Biden “thanks to socialist money.”
Powell also said that the electronic voting systems were designed for use with the goal of ousting former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and that votes for Trump were mostly skewed in favor of Biden.
Powell, the former federal prosecutor, was known as a conservative activist.
Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, said multiple times without providing evidence that the election was rigged in Biden’s favor.
Giuliani claimed Thursday that voters’ votes were counted in Spain and Germany by supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, accusations that are not sincere.
He also claimed that the vote counting machines were owned by Democrats, suggesting that the machines were tampered with, but the machine operator denied this and denied that any Democratic Party leaders owned shares in them.