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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – United States President Donald Trump’s election campaign on Sunday (November 22) distanced himself from Ms Sidney Powell, a lawyer who claimed at a press conference last week that voting systems electronics had traded millions of ballots to President-elect Joe Biden.
“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. .
Ms. Powell had made other dramatic claims without evidence, saying she had a voter fraud case of “biblical” proportions in Georgia. On Saturday, he told conservative Newsmax TV that “Georgia will probably be the first state I’m going to blow up,” and accused Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of plotting against Trump.
Powell, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump, a Republican, expressed concern after the press conference that Powell’s claims were too outlandish and would distract from other legal arguments, said a person familiar with the discussions.
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.
Tucker Carlson, an influential Fox News anchor, criticized Ms Powell on Thursday for the lack of evidence to support her claims.
“She never proved that a single real vote was illegitimately moved by software from one candidate to another. None,” 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 allegations 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.
Flynn, saying that Ms Powell had been suspended from Twitter for 12 hours, wrote on the platform that she understood Giuliani’s statement and “agrees with her.” Flynn said Powell was “staying the course” to demonstrate voter fraud.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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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