‘Never My Attorney’: Donald Trump Distances Himself From Sidney Powell After She Pleads Guilty In Georgia Case

Donald Trump distanced himself from Sidney Powell after she pleaded guilty in Georgia case although she was briefly an official member of his legal team in 2020.

Former US President Donald Trump distances himself from Sidney Powell

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Former United States President Donald Trump has claimed that Sidney Powell was “never” his attorney, three days after she pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case. Despite the claims made by Trump, Powell has briefly been an official member of his legal team in 2020 and Trump stayed in contact with her on election-related matters after she was ousted from his campaign. 

“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!!! MS. POWELL WAS NOT MY ATTORNEY, AND NEVER WAS. In fact, she would have been conflicted,” Trump wrote in a social media post. 

Trump tried to distance himself from Powell after she agreed to cooperate with Fulton County prosecutors and testify against her co-defendants in the case, potentially including Trump, as per a CNN report. 

In November 2020, Trump had publicly announced that he “added” Powell to his “truly great team” of lawyers working on the election. She was a part of a notorious Trump campaign press conference, alongside fellow Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis where she peddled unfounded conspiracy theories against Trump to flip millions of votes from him to Joe Biden. 

Later, she was dropped from the legal team by the Trump campaign and insisted that she was “practising law on her own.”

Powell also tried to distance from Trump as her trial approached in Georgia. Her attorney said “she did not represent” Trump or Trump campaign because she never signed an “engagement agreement” to be their attorney, adding that her name was never on any court filings from the Trump campaign.

Powell admitted her role in the January 2021 breach of election systems in rural Coffee County, Georgia, in her guilty plea.