Trump campaign says Sidney Powell not a member of legal team
Last edited Mon Nov 23, 2020, 05:57 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trumps 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.
The announcement came one day after a judge dismissed the campaigns lawsuit seeking to halt President-elect Joe Bidens victory in Pennsylvania, dealing a major blow to Trumps flailing efforts to overturn his Nov. 3 election loss.
Read more: https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-powell/trump-campaign-says-sidney-powell-not-a-member-of-legal-team-idUSKBN2820UB
Linked article updated to 16 paragraphs since first posted.
Blue Owl
(49,918 posts)Gothmog
(143,999 posts)elleng
(130,150 posts)Lock him up.
(6,874 posts)fearnobush
(3,960 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(56,897 posts)Sidney Powell will no longer have a vote on Trump legal strategy, making her the only American Trump has successfully disenfranchised in the course of 34 lawsuits.
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NCDem47
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Midnight Writer
(21,547 posts)Grimelle
(219 posts)Rudy and Jenna.
Grimelle
(219 posts)Rudy and Jenna.
bullimiami
(13,043 posts)deurbano
(2,891 posts)move to the other side of the Group W bench.
doc03
(35,148 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,894 posts)Bye Sid.
brush
(53,472 posts)Now let's wait for the next Rudy fiasco.
EllieBC
(2,961 posts)Its Sunday afternoon. What happened? This seems juicy.
Denzil_DC
(7,188 posts)from a WaPo journalist:
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@jdawsey1
Trump told allies that Sidney Powell was too much, even for him, after Thursday. He sees the fight as uphill but fleeting and doesnt see her as helpful anymore, per several advisers.
Aside from that, in all the court cases so far, Trump's "legal team" has shied away from making allegations of fraud in court, presumably for fear of perjury.
Powell's scattergun rantings outside court have been potentially actionable for slander against various public figures, and it sounded like she was winding up to go even more full bore this coming week.
She may also be a handy scapegoat for their repeated failures.
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)(uncontrollable screaming laughter)
machoneman
(3,952 posts)...nearly impossible that she is crazier than Rudy!
Ya' know when I heard that Rudy would head up Trump's legal team, it made sense as to why all the big name, big shot Republican leaning law firms withdrew. The stain they knew he would leave would be far bigger and longer lasting than his hair dye fiasco!
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)Denzil_DC
(7,188 posts)Maybe she wants to be 2020's Orly Taitz.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)Just that she didnt open her gatling-gun pie hole at the latest clown show.
Saw jenna wacko-bird on Real Time, with Bill Maher, last week...and she is NUTS! I mean, ALL these Qanon cult members are nuts, but some are scary nuts...and ellis is one of them. Like all these reich wing Nazi whores, kelly anne conway, shs, this latest nightmare, mcenany...they rattle off complete fabricated garbage so fast, the host has ZERO chance to call them on one of a dozen lies they spew in any given minute.
These are some scary witches. I think Im in favor ....oh, never mind. Dont want to bring the loony monitors out of the woodwork😈
Yeehah
(4,524 posts)Why not turn that garbage off?
Hulk
(6,699 posts)Personally I appreciate him and his show. I also watch some CNN and fox/Putin. I like to hear what everyone, regardless of points of view, are being exposed to.
I agree with most of Maher's points of view. He has on several guest that I deplore, but he challenges their nonsense. This rabid wingnut was pretty well exposed as a dingbat.
I don't turn him off, because I enjoy his program. You obviously don't, so don't watch him.
louis-t
(23,199 posts)Oh, but think of all the publicity she got! She'll be a legal analyst at OAN afor ye know it.
LudwigPastorius
(8,944 posts)but, THIS is where they draw the line!
MySideOfTown
(225 posts)insulting all the citizens of Georgia.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)They are losing what little of their collective mind they have left. Although reading anything on that dinosaur site that must be run on Winders 94 is as painful as reading their pathetic theories.
Its almost 100% Q nuts there now.
Botany
(70,291 posts)Omaha Steve
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