Trump campaign legal team distances itself from Powell https://www.abc27.com/news/us-world/politics/trump-campaign-legal-team-distances-itself-from-powell/ Perhaps Sidney Powell has gone too far for even Rudy Giuliani this time. The Trump campaign’s legal team moved to distance itself Sunday from the firebrand conservative attorney after a tumultuous several days in which Powell made multiple incorrect statements about the voting process, unspooled unsupported and complex conspiracy theories and vowed to “blow up” Georgia with a “biblical” court filing. “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,” Giuliani and another lawyer for Trump, Jenna Ellis, said in a statement. There was no immediate clarification from the campaign and Powell did not immediately return an email seeking comment. The statement hints at further tumult for a legal team that has lost case after case in contested states as it works to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 election. Law firms have withdrawn from cases, and in the latest blow, a federal judge dismissed on Saturdaynight the Trump campaign’s effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania in a blistering ruling that described the arguments as “strained” and “unsupported by evidence.” Trump had heralded Powell’s role as one of his lawyers, tweeting last week that she was part of a team of “wonderful lawyers and representatives” spearheaded by Giuliani. But the terse Sunday evening statement was the latest sign of wariness over her approach even within some conservative circles. Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on his show last week that his team had asked Powell for evidence to support her claims, but that Powell had provided none. Powell made headlines with her statements at a Thursday news conferencewhere, joined by Giuliani and Ellis, she incorrectly suggested that a server hosting evidence of voting irregularities was located in Germany, that voting software used by Georgia and other states was created at the direction of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and that votes for Trump had probably been switched in favor of President-elect Joe Biden. In a subsequent interview with Newsmax, she appeared to accuse Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, and its Republican secretary of state of being part of a conspiracy involving a voting-system contract award that she contends harmed Trump’s reelection bid. “Georgia’s probably going to be the first state I’m going to blow up and Mr. Kemp and the secretary of state need to go with it,” she said, later adding that a court filing she hoped to submit this week involving the state would be “biblical.” The status of that lawsuit was unclear Sunday night. Powell, a former federal prosecutor, took over last year as the lead lawyer for Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Since then, a federal judge rejected her claims of prosecutorial misconduct and has responded quizzically to some of her arguments, including her suggestion at a hearing several weeks ago that her conversations with Trump about the Flynn case were privileged. She has supported a Justice Department motion to dismiss the Flynn prosecution, a request that remains pending before U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan.
“I understand today’s press release,” Powell told CBS News. “I will continue to represent #WeThePeople who had their votes for Trump and other Republicans stolen by massive fraud through Dominion and Smartmatic, and we will be filing suit soon. The chips will fall where they may, and we will defend the foundations of this great Republic. #KrakenOnSteroids” Powell has not made any comment on Twitter, but that may be because her account has been suspended. Gen. Michael Flynn, a former client of Powell’s, tweeted that she had been “suspended from Twitter for 12 hours,” and that despite the press release from Giuliani and Ellis, she was “staying the course to prove the massive deliberate election fraud that robbed #WeThePeople of our votes for President Trump & other Republican candidates.” BuzzInClick.com
Yes indeed. We will see. Flynn family remains confident. As does L LIN WOOD. Could be an angle they're working on.
It is too late for Christie to expect us to believe be has integrity. Where was he four years ago? He was finished after bridgegate. Could have rehabilitated himself by rejecting Trump, but didn't. Only one Republican who has ventured into national politics and not already exited in disgust has any integrity, and that is Mit Romney. It's far too late for the rest of them to be recognized as any thing other than rats trying to save themselves by swimming from a sinking ship.
Christie has no dignity just like Cruz. He got played in the early days of the Trump team transition for saying mean things during the primaries and Trump dunked on him early on, but he came groveling back. Romney was played as well but Mittens at least saw through the games and told Donnie off. That's the power of fuck you money.
When your shiat is too crazy for the Trump / Giuliani team...... you've hit an extreme of being nuts.
The Raleigh News & Observer had an in-depth article on Sidney Powell in the Sunday paper . She was raised Durham, North Carolina and went to college in our state (UNC). In recent years she practices and lives in Asheville North Carolina after she returned from Texas. Several quotes from people who worked with her in recent years in the article seem to indicate that she has gone deeply down the the conservative alternate-reality path since 2016 to the point where some of her associates question her rationality.