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Nov 23 2020
News
Sidney Powell’s Status With the Trump Campaign Has Changed
The Trump campaign has released a statement about the status of former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell.
“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,” Trump Campaign Attorney Rudy Giuliani and Senior Legal Adviser Jenna Ellis said.
Why Powell’s status as an attorney
Townhall
Jul 12 2022
News
Trump sought to name Sidney Powell as White House special counsel to seize voting machines
President Trump‘s proposal to appoint conservative attorney Sidney Powell as a special counsel to investigate voting fraud in the 2020 election culminated in a profane screaming match between Trump loyalists and White House advisers who opposed the plan, witnesses told the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday.
Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone was shown in video testimony saying he was “
Washington Times
Mar 23 2021
Opinion
Sidney Powell gives up the game, admits Trump’s election conspiracies weren’t factual
As a former Trump campaign lawyer, Sidney Powell did more than perhaps anyone to push the big lie that President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in last November’s presidential election was the result of fraud involving Dominion Voting Systems machines. Now, however, lawyers representing her have acknowledged that the “big lie” is, in fact, just that.
Powell faces a $1.3 billion
Vox
Feb 04 2021
News
Smartmatic files $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell
Voting company Smartmatic on Thursday filed a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, some of the network's top hosts, Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell for starting a "disinformation campaign" against the company.
Why it matters: This is the second voting company to file a lawsuit against Giuliani and Powell, following Dominion Voting Systems' two $1.3 billion defamation
Axios
Dec 19 2020
Opinion
Trump Sought to Tap Conspiracy Theorist Sidney Powell as Special Counsel on Voter Fraud
President Donald Trump is still eager to push the message that he won the election even though there’s no evidence to support his baseless claims of election fraud. He’s so intent on continuing the efforts that at a Friday meeting he discussed naming attorney Sidney Powell as a special counsel to investigate the presidential election. Powell is the attorney who spewed crackpot conspiracy
Slate
Jan 08 2021
News
Dominion Voting Systems files $1.3B defamation suit against ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell
Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against attorney Sidney Powell over her baseless claims that the company, which manufactured electronic voting machines used by some districts in the 2020 election, changed votes for President Donald Trump to votes for President-elect Joe Biden.
Powell's wide-ranging conspiracy theory variously implicated Dominion, deceased Venezuelan
USA TODAY
Nov 23 2020
News
Sidney Powell: Trump team cuts ties with lawyer who peddled bizarre fraud claims
The Trump campaign has distanced itself from a lawyer who made dramatic claims of voter fraud at several media events.
Sidney Powell claimed without evidence last week that electronic voting systems had switched millions of votes to President-elect Joe Biden, and said he won due to "communist money".
President Trump has refused to concede the election, making unsubstantiated
BBC News
Nov 23 2020
News
Sidney Powell responds after Trump campaign says she is not part of legal team: '#KrakenOnSteroids'
Sidney Powell, the headline-grabbing attorney who was seemingly part of President Donald Trump's legal team, responded late Sunday to the Trump campaign's statement that she was, in fact, never a member of the campaign's legal team.
In a shock move late Sunday, Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis and Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani released a statement that said:
The Blaze
Dec 07 2020
News
Georgia certifies Biden win following recount as Sidney Powell's efforts to 'release the Kraken' sink
Georgia election officials on Monday certified the results of the state's presidential race after a recount requested by President Trump found his Democratic rival Joe Biden had won the once reliably red state.
"We have now counted legally cast ballots three times, and the results remain unchanged," Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said during a morning news conference.
Washington Examiner
Nov 09 2020
News
Sidney Powell Makes Explosive Voter Fraud Allegation: 'They Had This All Planned'
Sidney Powell, a member of President Trump’s legal team, alleged that Democrats had a widespread voter fraud operation on Election Day, saying an audit on all computer systems "that played a role" is necessary.
“The computer glitches could not and should not have happened at all,” she told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. “That’s where the fraud took place where they were flipping
Townhall