Posted on 10/23/2023 11:28:57 AM PDT by thegagline
Former President Donald Trump is distancing himself from attorney Sidney Powell in the wake of her guilty plea in the Georgia election interference case.
“Sidney Powell was one of millions and millions of people who thought, and in ever increasing numbers still think, correctly, that the 2020 Presidential Election was RIGGED & STOLLEN," Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday.
"Despite the Fake News reports to the contrary, and without even reaching out to ask the Trump Campaign, MS. POWELL WAS NOT MY ATTORNEY, AND NEVER WAS," he wrote.
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Eric Segall, a law professor at Georgia State University, told NBC News that Trump’s assertion about Powell “is another example of Trump re-writing history and changing facts for his own purposes.”
Segall also said on the social media platform X that the assertion wasn't helpful to Trump's cause. "So much for any claims of attorney/client privilege. Not smart," he wrote.
That's a reference to a privilege that protects private communications between attorneys and their clients. *** Trump once touted Powell's involvement in the election-related case while he was challenging the election results in the days after his loss.
"I look forward to Mayor Giuliani spearheading the legal effort to defend OUR RIGHT to FREE and FAIR ELECTIONS! Rudy Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell , and Jenna Ellis, a truly great team, added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives!" he tweeted on Nov. 14, 2020.
Five days later, Giuliani held a press conference with those attorneys, including Powell, at RNC headquarters in Washington. "We're representing President Trump and the Trump campaign," Giuliani said then.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
She took documents in a way she wasn’t supposed to. And illegally
Trump doesn’t do illegal
As much as people don’t want to imagine that.
Nothing against Trump but for a while there the media did seemed to glom on to Powell. Was it her feminine mystique or did they go barking up the wrong tree?
Team doesn’t mean she is his lawyer.
Twitter from Jenna Ellis: Trump Campaign Statement on Legal Team (Sidney Powell) out)
Twitter ^ | Jenna Ellis
Posted on 11/22/2020, 6:08:12 PM by AUTiger83
“Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump Legal team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity.”
(Signed) Rudy Giuliani, Attorney for President Trump, and Jenna Ellis, Trump Campaign Senior Legal Advisor and Attorney for President Trump
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3908621/posts
A false claim; she was.
Trump Campaign Statement on Legal Team
Twitter ^ | 11/22/2020 | Jenna Ellis
Posted on 11/22/2020, 5:55:14 PM by semimojo
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3908619/posts
I have attorney-client privilege with three lawyers I never hired.
I met with them for initial consultations and discussed specific legal needs, but I never retained them. In two of the three cases they referred me to someone else. In the third case it turned out I didn’t need a lawyer after all.
Apparently, you have no proof.
Note President Trump’s own tweet here:
“I look forward to Mayor Giuliani spearheading the legal effort to defend OUR RIGHT to FREE and FAIR ELECTIONS! Rudy Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, a truly great team, added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives!”
Trump Legal Team Distances from Sidney Powell
Breitbart ^ | November 22, 2020 | JOEL B. POLLAK
Posted on 11/22/2020, 7:01:53 PM by conservative98
Not on Trump’s team. They had hoped to work WITH her but decided against it.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3908632/posts?q=1&;page=151
They had hoped for that but separated
Trump Legal Team Distances from Sidney Powell
Breitbart ^ | November 22, 2020 | JOEL B. POLLAK
Posted on 11/22/2020, 7:01:53 PM by conservative98
A source who spoke to Breitbart News on background suggested that the team had hoped to work with her, but that Powell’s public claims had gone beyond the scope of the evidence they had seen and believed they could prove in court.
Powell had pursued a theory that Dominion voting machines, operating with Smartmatic software, were manipulable and had been responsible for switching votes from Trump to Democratic challenger Joe Biden. She also alleged that Dominion had worked with foreign governments, including Venezuela, and produced an affidavit purporting to support that allegation.
She had not yet provided evidence that votes had actually been changed, however, and has faced increasing public criticism.
There’s a post on the next page claiming Guiliani fired her three times....
Curious....
President Trump did not say 'my lawyers' but "our lawyers.
I remember soon after the election she had come out with a lot of extraordinary claims. Trump immediately said she was not acting on his behalf and many “arm chair quarterbacks” on social media were upset that he didn’t praise her efforts.
It seems that in this situation Trump was right.
What does the "I look forward to..." part mean?
Think it means that at the time of the Tweet, none of those people were on the team.
Perhaps the journalist can confirm that Powell actually did make it on the team as this tweet anticipated...I mean before calling Trump wrong for saying she never was?
My impression of the comment...
Trump is saying that Powell was not his personal attorney.
Did he hire her and pay her? That ought to be easy to prove.
“ Between them they fired her three times, because they thought she was a crackpot.” https://nypost.com/2023/10/22/trump-and-giuliani-never-fell-for-sidney-powells-crazy-s-t-but-the-left-sure-did/
I never had the impression she was actually Trump’s lawyer.
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