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Trump Informs Sidney Powell She Won’t Be Given ‘Special Counsel’ Job, Cuts Her Off
Daily Wire ^ | 12/23/2020 | Ryan Saavedra

Posted on 12/23/2020 3:38:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind

President Donald Trump reportedly informed attorney Sidney Powell this week that she will not be given a “special counsel” position to probe her unproven claims on election fraud, and she now claims that she has been cut off from speaking to the president.

Trump dropped the idea of “giving her such a formal portfolio for pursuing her conspiracy theories around voter irregularities and fraud,” The Daily Beast reported. “Asked whether Trump told Powell that she wouldn’t be ‘special counsel,’ Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani — who leads the president’s post-election legal team — told The Daily Beast on Tuesday: ‘Yes,’ adding, ‘she is no longer part of [our] team. She is on her own.'”

Powell later released a statement to Fox News, saying, “I have been blocked by White House counsel and others from seeing or speaking to the President since I raised the public formal findings and even more evidence of foreign interference from Iran and China.”

The news comes after Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani sought to distance himself, the president, and the president’s legal defense team from Powell this week. Giuliani’s remarks came after Powell had repeatedly been sighted at the White House in recent days, including on Friday, when she was accompanied by Lt. General Michael Flynn. The Trump campaign, at the behest of the president, distanced itself from Powell last month after she made unproven claims during a press conference that many of Trump’s frequent defenders were stunned by — including Tucker Carlson and Rush Limbaugh. The Washington Post reported that a Trump campaign official said at the time that Powell was “too crazy” to have Trump’s support.

“Let me say definitely, Sidney Powell was not part of our legal team,” Giuliani said this week. “She hasn’t been for five weeks.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benshapirosrag; dailybeast; fakenews; sidneypowell; specialcounsel; tds; trump
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank heavens, she is a loose cannon.

Let Rudy & co. handle it.


61 posted on 12/23/2020 4:58:36 PM PST by mquinn (Obama's supporters: a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is Rudy JEALOUS of Sydney??? hmmmmm


62 posted on 12/23/2020 5:01:50 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s see if Powell and Trump meet again. Not sure if this is true again.


63 posted on 12/23/2020 5:03:32 PM PST by glimmerman70
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To: Ann Archy; All

I had my doubts about Rudy’s abilities as a litigator. Then, after he dismissed the fraud allegations in PA District Court, then meandered into court (where he is not even licensed to practice law) and made an idiot of himself, and then appealed the wrong question of law, I lost all faith in him.

I had high hopes for Powell, and said so openly right here.

Then she started filing garbage pleadings and losing 100% of her cases.

Frankly, PDJT needs a completely DIFFERENT caliber of lawyers.


64 posted on 12/23/2020 5:07:00 PM PST by God_Country_Trump_Guns
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To: blam

I trust Flynn more than Rove.


65 posted on 12/23/2020 5:07:52 PM PST by Aria (- )
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To: Trump.Deplorable

And only Zeus, played by Sir Lawrence Olivier, can release the Kraken.


66 posted on 12/23/2020 5:15:57 PM PST by Crucial ( )
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To: God_Country_Trump_Guns

I still have faith in Sydney......no DEMOCRAT judge will hear her case! NOT HER FAULT!


67 posted on 12/23/2020 5:18:17 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: blam

ROVE is a TOTAL asswipe.


68 posted on 12/23/2020 5:19:20 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If true it won’t be long before Sydney is the villain du jour on FR and if you don’t jump on the group think you will also become a villain.


69 posted on 12/23/2020 5:19:25 PM PST by ImpBill (The GOP is worthless. But that is nothing new!)
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To: SeekAndFind

My stubbed toe was o’pusing.
; )


70 posted on 12/23/2020 5:20:33 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

If Tokyo Rove hates her, she must be gooooood.


71 posted on 12/23/2020 5:21:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fake NEWS...!

Stirring up controversy...BS


72 posted on 12/23/2020 5:29:07 PM PST by MCEscherHammer
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To: Ann Archy

I am a lawyer first admitted to practice over a quarter of a century ago, with over a dozen years of nothing but Fed Court experience.

I have read as many of her pleadings as I could get my hands on.

Trust me, her work is garbage. It is not the fault of the judges.

Her, Wood, and Giuliani are total embarrassments. I have never seen lawyers lose so many cases, so humiliatingly and so decisively and so one-sidedly in such a short period.

They lost in trial courts, appeal courts, and Supreme Courts, in Federal and State forums. It was embarrassing.

And now, news is coming out that they were filing false affidavits, they were filing on behalf of plaintiffs without their authorization, and they were making misleading statements to the courts.

PDJT has not been well-represented here.


73 posted on 12/23/2020 5:29:37 PM PST by God_Country_Trump_Guns
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To: deadrock

Trump needed a real legal team with unkowns, but hard hitters who can manage through this to completion.

Instead we got TV lawyers looking to write a book and get rich

I just people realize this was all farce from the beginning

Rudy was not the person for this task, neither is Powell or the other nimrod


74 posted on 12/23/2020 5:34:14 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: God_Country_Trump_Guns

Can you try to get Trump to hire you and steer him in the right direction to a second term?


75 posted on 12/23/2020 5:34:30 PM PST by White Lives Matter
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To: pilgrim

Yep, the never-Trump trolls here are very obvious.


76 posted on 12/23/2020 5:35:35 PM PST by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: God_Country_Trump_Guns

Why don’;t YOU help Trump?


77 posted on 12/23/2020 5:37:46 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What im saying is that the daily beast is the enemy.

Never believe anything the enemy says. If a friendly news agency reports the same, assume it’s false.

Even the words and and the.

They are a national enemy, like the nazis. We need to get this through our skulls.


78 posted on 12/23/2020 5:38:44 PM PST by Celerity
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To: White Lives Matter

You joke.

But the fact is, at one point, in PA (the largest contested state) PDJT’s only lawyer was a solo-practitioner whose website advertised child support and custody expertise.

Then she was relieved as counsel, and Giuliani stepped in.

He was not licensed to practice in PA, but he asked to argue “pro hac vice” which is basically Latin for “for this case only.”

He meandered into court making ridiculous arguments. He stated, on the record “we are not alleging fraud.” He asked the judge to define “opacity.” He was clueless about the Constitutional standard to be applied to the case. Not surprisingly, he lost.

He appealed the wrong question. Lost again. Petitioned SCOTUS to review the case. Denied.

But neither Powell nor Wood are any better. And Jenna Ellis has no Fed Court experience whatsoever.


79 posted on 12/23/2020 5:42:24 PM PST by God_Country_Trump_Guns
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh. Well if KARL ROVE said it...👎


80 posted on 12/23/2020 5:42:56 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing);)
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