At one point, Trump wanted Sidney Powell to serve as special council. Now he pretends he doesn’t even know her. MaddowBlog
, held late last year, in which Powell, Flynn, and Patrick Byrne fought vehemently against White House lawyers, including Eric Herschmann and Pat Cipollone. During yesterday’s presentation, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin explained:
“Certain accounts of this meeting indicate that President Trump actually granted Ms. Powell security clearance and appointed her to a somewhat ill-defined position of special counsel.” Powell herself told the House select panel that Trump asked the White House counsel whether the then-president had the authority to make Powell a special counsel. When Cipollone answered in the affirmative, according to Powell, Trump said, “Ok, you know, I’m naming her that and I’m giving her security clearance.”
Cipollone told the committee that Powell may have been under the impression that she’d been appointed, but as far as the then-White House counsel was concerned, this was an absurd idea: Cipollone effectively killed the appointment by not doing the necessary paperwork. Part of what makes this amazing is that a sitting president effectively gave an order that his own team scuttled.
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