Former President Donald Trump looked to create some separation between him and a lawyer he had said worked for him — amid his legal trouble in Georgia, as he continues to deny all wrongdoing.
After Sidney Powell, an attorney who vocally backed Trump’s baseless election fraud conspiracies, last week pleaded guilty in the Fulton County, Georgia, election subversion case, Trump took to social media claiming that she was never his lawyer and went on to repeat false claims about the 2020 race.
“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,” Trump posted on social media.
That post flies in the face of a November 2020 announcement from Trump in which he named Powell as an addition to his legal team, however. He tweeted on Nov. 14, 2020, that Powell was “added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives.”
Powell has admitted to six misdemeanor charges in the Georgia case over efforts to overturn Trump’s loss there. As part of the agreement, Powell must “testify truthfully about any co-defendants” involved in the case, according to the judge. Trump, a co-defendant, has pleaded not guilty to his own charges.
Source- ABC
