Trump said on Sunday that Sidney Powell, who has agreed a plea deal in the Georgia election tampering case, was never his lawyer.
After attorney Sidney Powell agreed last Thursday to testify against her co-defendants in the Georgia election tampering case, Donald Trump moved quickly to distance himself from her.On Sunday, Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social that 'despite the Fake News reports to the contrary, and without even reaching out to ask the Trump Campaign, MS.
Trump publicly welcomed Powell into his team in the post-election period in 2020, when he was contesting Joe Biden's victory.On November 14, 2020, Trump posted on X, formerly Twitter, that he was welcoming Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and two others as 'a truly great team, added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives' to work on 'the legal effort to defend OUR RIGHT to FREE and FAIR ELECTIONS.
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