U.S. President Donald Trump’s election campaign issued a statement on Sunday distancing itself from Sidney Powell, a lawyer who made baseless allegations of voter fraud at a campaign press conference on Thursday.
“Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own,” Trump campaign lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said in the statement. “She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity.”
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The announcement came one day after a judge dismissed the campaign’s lawsuit seeking to halt President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, dealing a major blow to Trump’s flailing efforts to overturn his Nov. 3 election loss.
Powell did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump had referred to Powell as one of his lawyers in a Nov. 14 tweet.
“Rudy Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, a truly great team, added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives,” Trump said in the tweet. (Reporting by Jan Wolfe; Additional reporting by Timothy Gardner: Editing by Paul Simao and Daniel Wallis)
Substantial_Alarm_65 on November 22nd, 2020 at 23:53 UTC »
In the end the real Kraken was the friends they made along the way.
KillaB33z on November 22nd, 2020 at 23:19 UTC »
Welp.. imma head out ..
Tomahawk68 on November 22nd, 2020 at 23:18 UTC »
Wtf is this?? Yet she was with Rudy and Jenna Ellis for that press conference the other day...