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Perhaps Sidney Powell has gone too far even for Rudy Giuliani this time.
Trump’s campaign legal team has moved to distance itself from the conservative fiery attorney after a tumultuous few days in which Powell made multiple misstatements about the electoral voting process, unleashed complex conspiracy theories, and vowed to “blow up” Georgia with a “biblical” lawsuit.
Sidney Powell practices law on his own. 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 Sunday.
Trump himself has announced Powell’s involvement, tweeting last week that she was part of a team of “wonderful lawyers and representatives” led by Giuliani.
There was no immediate clarification of the campaign and Powell did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
The statement hints at chaos in a legal team that has lost case after case in its efforts to reverse the results of the November 3 elections. Law firms have withdrawn from the cases and, in the latest setback, Matthew Brann, a judge for a United States Republican district court in Pennsylvania, rejected the Trump campaign’s request to disenfranchise nearly 7 million voters there.
“This claim, like Frankenstein’s monster, has been stitched randomly from two different theories in an attempt to avoid precedent control,” he wrote in a conviction, issued Saturday. On Sunday afternoon, the Trump campaign filed an appeal against Brann’s ruling in Pennsylvania.
It came after similar failed court offers in Georgia, Michigan and Arizona to prevent states from certifying their vote totals.
The statement on Powell was the latest sign of mistrust of his approach, even within some conservative circles. Fox News host 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.
Powell made headlines with his remarks at a press conference Thursday in which, 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 were created under the leadership of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and that votes in favor of Trump had probably been changed in favor of Biden.
However, his contributions that day were largely overshadowed by the malfunction of Giuliani’s hair dye.
In a subsequent interview with Newsmax on Saturday, she appeared to accuse Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp and his Republican Secretary of State of being part of a conspiracy involving the award of a voting system contract that she claimed damaged the Trump’s reelection bid.
“Georgia will probably be the first state that I am going to blow up and Mr. Kemp and the secretary of state must accept it,” he said, then added that a lawsuit he planned to file 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 claims of prosecutorial misconduct 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.
