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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Since Trump was signaling prior to the election that he would challenge the results. And Powell was involved until Nov 22nd. A bit more than 2 days.
You are counting BEFORE the election? She was never close enough to Trump to have been included in anything. She can only relate second and third hand information unless Fat Fannie is trying for Guliani
No, it doesn't.
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