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Trump axed campaign lawyer Sidney Powell because 'she was too conspiratorial even for him,' report says
Powell and Giuliani are as nutty as they come. That won't stop Trump & Co from repeating their conspiracy nonsense though.
Sidney Powell Undermined Georgia GOP During Crucial Senate Runoff Before Trump Campaign Cut Her Loose
11/23/20
When President Donald Trump on November 15 announced the legal team leading his campaign to overturn the result of the presidential election, among them the Dallas attorney Sidney Powell, he described the members as a "truly great team." But only a week later, the Trump campaign abruptly distanced itself from Powell. The attorney's outlandish conspiracy theories apparently became too much even for a president whose political identity is founded on stirring suspicion of "deep state" elites. Sources close to the president told The New York Times' Maggie Haberman that Powell's claims had become too much for Trump and that for days the president had been "agitating" about Powell and Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor leading the Trump campaign's challenge in the courts. A particular focus of his ire was said to be last Thursday's bizarre press conference, where Powell aired the wild conspiracy theory — with no evidence — that Venezuelan socialists and the Jewish financier George Soros had orchestrated a vast plot using rigged voting machines to steal the election from Trump. "She was too conspiratorial even for him," one Trump adviser told Haberman.
Another tipping point was apparently a federal judge's rejection on Saturday of the Trump campaign's challenge to the election result in Pennsylvania, a rejection that included withering criticism of the legal case made by the campaign's attorneys. A Trump campaign official echoed the assessment in remarks to the Los Angeles Times' legal-affairs columnist, Harry Litman. In its courtroom presentations, where stating deliberate falsehoods can attract serious legal penalties, the Trump campaign has notably declined to air the more incendiary claims made by figures such as Powell. In a statement released after the Trump campaign cut its ties with her, Powell refused to relent, pledging to submit an "epic" lawsuit this week containing evidence of the claims that have alienated her from the president's allies. Powell didn't immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.
Powell and Giuliani are as nutty as they come. That won't stop Trump & Co from repeating their conspiracy nonsense though.
Sidney Powell Undermined Georgia GOP During Crucial Senate Runoff Before Trump Campaign Cut Her Loose