Former President Donald Trump said Sidney Powell was “never” his attorney just days after she pleaded guilty in the Georgia 2020 election fraud case.
“Despite the Fake News reports to the contrary, and without even reaching out to ask the Trump Campaign, MS. POWELL WAS NOT MY ATTORNEY, AND NEVER WAS. In fact, she would have been conflicted,” Mr. Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social.
“Sidney Powell was one of millions and millions of people who thought, and in ever increasing numbers still think, correctly, that the 2020 Presidential Election was RIGGED & STOLLEN, AND OUR COUNTRY IS BEING ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED BECAUSE OF IT!!!” he added.
Despite Mr. Trump’s current claims, Powell was involved with the Trump team. He posted on X in November 2020 that Powell was added to his team of “wonderful lawyers and representatives.”
The Trump team later decided to distance themselves from her after she made incorrect statements about the voting process, saying in a statement that she “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.”
In his Sunday post, Mr. Trump praised Powell for representing former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in 2019, when special counsel Robert Mueller was looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“Ms. Powell did a valiant job of representing a very unfairly treated and governmentally abused General Mike Flynn, but to no avail,” he said. “His prosecution, despite the facts, was ruthless. He was an innocent man, much like many other innocent people who are being persecuted by this now Fascist government of ours, and I was honored to give him a Full Pardon!”
Powell pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiring to intentionally interfere with the 2020 election in Georgia. She was sentenced to six years of probation and was fined $6,000, along with having to write an apology letter to Georgia and its residents. She also agreed to testify against her co-defendants at future trials.
She was the second person involved with the case to plead guilty. Scott Hall, a bail bondsman, earlier pleaded guilty to five counts of the same charge as Powell.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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