The Trump administration sought to distance itself from attorney Sidney Powell on Thursday, insisting she is ‘not a member’ of their legal team after she spread a series of wild and unfounded conspiracy theories about election fraud. In a brief written statement issued Sunday evening, Trump’s lead attorney Rudy Giuliani and senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis said that Powell ‘is practising law on her own.’ ‘She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team,’ the statement continued. ‘She is also not a lawyer for the president in a personal capacity.’ The announcement was made a day after a judge dismissed the campaign’s lawsuit seeking to halt President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, dealing a major blow to Trump’s flailing efforts to overturn his November 3 election loss. Just days earlier, on Thursday, Powell had appeared on-stage alongside Giuliani for a bizarre press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, in which she stunningly claimed that Democrats had ‘paid’ to rig the election. Responding to her disavowing, Powell said in a statement to CBS News that she ‘understands today’s press release.’ ‘I will continue to represent #WeThePeople who had their votes for Trump and other Republicans stolen by massive… Read full this story
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