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WASHINGTON (AP): Maybe Sidney Powell has gone too far even for Rudy Giuliani this time.
Trump’s campaign legal team moved to distance itself from the conservative fiery attorney on Sunday (November 22) after several tumultuous days in which he made multiple misstatements about the voting process, sparked complex and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. and promised to “fly” to Georgia with a “biblical” lawsuit.
“Sidney Powell is a self-employed lawyer. She is not a member of Trump’s legal team. She is also not the president’s attorney in a personal capacity,” Giuliani and another Trump attorney, Jenna Ellis, said in a statement. .
There was no immediate clarification of the campaign and Powell did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
The statement hints at further tumult for a legal team that has lost case after case in the disputed states as it works to overturn the results of the November 3 election.
Law firms have withdrawn from the cases, and in the latest blow, a federal judge on Saturday night (November 21) threw out the Trump campaign effort to block Pennsylvania’s vote certification in a vehement ruling. who described the arguments as “tense” and “unsupported by evidence.”
The statement on Powell was the latest sign of mistrust of his approach, even within some conservative circles. Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson said on his show last week that his team had asked Powell for evidence to back up his claims, but that Powell had not provided any.
Trump himself had announced Powell’s participation, tweeting last week that she was part of a team of “wonderful attorneys and representatives” led by Giuliani.
Powell made headlines with his remarks at a press conference Thursday where, along with Giuliani and Ellis, he incorrectly suggested that a server hosting evidence of voting irregularities was located in Germany, that the voting software used by Georgia and Other states was created under the leadership of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and that the votes for President Donald Trump had likely shifted in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.
In a subsequent interview with Newsmax, she appeared to accuse the Republican Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, and his Republican secretary of state of being part of a conspiracy involving the award of a voting system contract that, according to her, damaged the candidacy for Trump’s reelection.
“Georgia will probably be the first state that I’m going to blow up and Mr. Kemp and the secretary of state should accept it,” he said, then added that a lawsuit he planned to bring against the state would be “biblical.”
The status of that lawsuit was unclear Sunday night.
Powell, a former federal prosecutor, took over last year as lead counsel for Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia.
Since then, a federal judge has rejected his prosecution misconduct allegations and has responded with curiosity to some of his arguments, including his suggestion at a hearing several weeks ago that his conversations with Trump on the Flynn case were privileged.
She has supported a motion by the Justice Department to dismiss the indictment, a request that remains pending before US District Judge Emmet Sullivan. – AP
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