WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has thwarted a lawyer named Sidney Powell, who was fired from his campaign legal team after pushing the principles of absolutist conspiracy., As a special adviser investigating allegations of voter fraud, as he grabs Straw to stay in power.
During Friday’s meeting at the White House, Trump discussed obtaining Powell’s security clearance, according to two people familiar with the meeting, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.
Trump is also entertaining the idea of installing Powell, he insists on increasingly desperate moves while trying to counter the November 3 election results, which he defeated Democrat B Biden. Trump entertains conspiracy theories and foreign plans to try to stay in office by allied parties such as National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and the president’s personal lawyer, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
It is not clear whether Trump intends to move forward with efforts to establish Powell. Under federal law, U.S. The Attorney General, not the President, is responsible for the appointment of special advisers. And countless Republicans, from outgoing attorney general William Barr to governors and state election officials, have repeatedly said there is no evidence of impeachment in the weeks leading up to Trump’s defeat. Friday’s meeting was first reported by The New York Times.
In addition to losing the popular vote by more than 7 million votes, Trump decisively lost the electorate to the College Ledge by Biden, with 306 voter votes to 232.
The Trump campaign and its allies have now filed about 50 lawsuits, mostly alleging vote-rigging, and almost all have been fired or dropped. Trump has lost to the judges of both political parties in which he was appointed, and some strong rebukes have come from conservative Republicans. The Supreme Court has also refused to take two cases – a decision that Trump has criticized.
With no permanent legal recourse ahead, Trump is exploring alternatives and killing allies, as he refuses to accept their losses.
That includes Giuliana, who during Friday’s meeting forced Trump to seize voting machines in his search for evidence of fraud. The Department of Homeland Security clarified that they have no right to do so. It is also not clear what it will accomplish.
The judge told the Associated Press in an interview earlier this month that the judge and the Department of Homeland Security had noted claims that the voting machines were “programmed to capture election results … and so far, we have not seen anything to submit.” Those paper ballots are also retained under federal law and are used to verify results, including Georgia, which conducted two audits of ballots using paper-ballot backups.
Flynn, who was recently pardoned by Trump for lying to the FBI, also went ahead, suggesting that Trump could apply martial law and use the military to run the election again. Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows and White House adviser Pat Cipolo raised their objections, people familiar with the meeting said.
Powell was initially part of the presidential campaign legal team, but was booed after a bizarre news conference with Giuliani in which he made a number of election fraud allegations, including “under Hugo’s direction”, claiming he had created election software in Venezuela. Chavez “- President of Venezuela who died in 2013.
In interviews and presentations, Powell continued to make misleading statements about the voting process, vowing to “slap” Georgia with unsupported unsupported and complex conspiracy theories and “biblical” court filings.
Trump’s team soon announced that it had severed ties with Powell. “She is not a member of the Trump legal team. He is not even a lawyer in the president’s personal capacity, “said Giuliani and another Trump lawyer, whose Ellis said in a statement.
Dowlian Voting Systems, Powell’s special target, has demanded the withdrawal of “wild” and “deliberately baseless” claims she made about the voting machine company and a defamation suit.
After partnering with the campaign, Powell filed a lawsuit against Georgia attorney L.A. Together with Lynn Wood, he has continued to pursue the case on behalf of Trump.
Powell and the White House did not respond to requests for comment Saturday.
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Limire reports from New York. The report was contributed by Michael Balsamo, author of the Associated Press.
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