Attorney Sidney Powell was cut off from his legal team after President Donald Trump launched multiple lawsuits aimed at overthrowing the 2020 election – all failures – but Trump now welcomes further efforts to bring the conspiracy-minded Flamethrower back to the White House. Raising his presidency.
Trump and Powell met at the Oval Office on Friday night, ABC News confirmed, and joined Trump’s former national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who publicly asked Trump to take unprecedented steps to seize a second term. – Trump has lost, including declaring martial law and ordering the military to observe new elections on the battlefield.
“[Trump] It can take military capabilities and place them in those states and basically re-run elections in each of those states, ”Flynn told the news outlet Newsmax earlier this week.
Critics at the meeting on Friday sounded the alarm, first reported by the New York Times. Noah Bookbinder, head of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics group in Washington, told ABC News that the ideas raised in the Oval Office fee discussions were “abuse of power” and “false and must be condemned.”
“President Trump’s continued efforts to reverse the outcome of the election have severely damaged the stability of our democracy and the confidence of the American people in it,” Bookbinder said. “The president welcomed Michael Flynn to the White House after Flynn advised Trump to impose martial law to forcibly overthrow the election.”
Critics argue that Powell’s return could lead to a darker final chapter of Trump’s presidency, and the prospect has objected to the directives of many of Trump’s trusted advisers – including his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who has otherwise endorsed Burning Earth’s efforts. Election fight.
And Powell’s re-emergence in Trump’s corner comes at an ambiguous time for his own career, as many of the goals of his drive to overthrow the election have begun to be pushed back. Last week, Dominion Voting Systems, a Colorado voting machine company targeting pro-Trump militiamen with dark conspiracy theories, threatened Powell that it would take legal action if it was not called “wild, deliberately baseless.” And false “allegations she has made against him.
Nevertheless, Trump invited Powell to consider the possibility of appointing her as a special adviser and allowing a high level of security to investigate the 2020 election. Sources told ABC News that the meeting was full of screams and demands from Powell, who called other Trump aides “cutters” for quitting the fight.
The meeting was held with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, White House Counsel Pat Pat Ciplon and other Trump attorneys talking to the president, sources said. According to sources, Giuliani, who joined the meeting by phone, also opposed the idea.
Powell did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.
Powell’s allure to Trump is reflected in his willingness to explore dubbed, stem-winding conspiracy theories that suggest foreign actors conspired with the American state of Nanda to rig election machines for former Vice President B Biden. During the meeting on Friday, a source said the assembly group had considered an executive order to seize and inspect voting machines across the country.
The idea was initially raised by Giuliani earlier in the week, but was quickly shot down by Ciplon and Meadows. When Powell raised him Friday night, the two fired him again.
U.S. “I don’t know how it will work,” Election Commission (EAC) Commissioner Ben Howland told ABC News. “In most cases voting machines are owned by local jurisdiction; they are state and local property, so I don’t even know how that means.”
Over the years, Powell has built a reputation for being ahead of what other attorneys would consider. The former national security adviser pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents and defended Flynn after being called to court by a federal judge. Powell forged a new strategy: reopen his application and put the blame for his legal difficulties on his first defense attorney and the FBI. The tactic was harshly criticized, but withdrew the charge by the Justice Department and Trump issued a full pardon to Flynn.
Powell is also the loudest voice of Trump’s advisers to promote the idea that his defeat in the 2020 election by more than 7 million votes was indeed a mirage, a result of the forces’ arraignment of election theft from him. Like voting tech experts, the series of court rulings rejected those claims.
As of Saturday, Dominion voting machines had not heard back from Powell or his legal team about his demand that he withdraw his allegations against the company, a Dominion spokesman confirmed to ABC News.
A Dominion spokesman told ABC News earlier in the week, “A request to present Mrs. Powell with an easy choice. Withdraw her false and defamatory claims about the company and its voting system or leave yourself open for additional legal action.” “It means going to court and settling the matter.”
Ali Dukakis of ABC News contributed to the report.
