US President Donald Trump’s election campaign issued a statement on Sunday distancing itself from Sidney Powell, a lawyer who made baseless allegations of voter fraud at a news conference on Thursday.
“Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own,” Trump campaign lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said in the statement. “She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team.
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 Mr Trump’s flailing efforts to overturn his November 3rd election loss.
Ms Powell, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mr Trump had referred to Ms Powell as one of his lawyers in a November 14th tweet. US Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa who won reelection in this month’s vote, told a Fox News radio program on Thursday that Ms Powell’s allegations were “offensive”.
Ms Powell is currently representing Mr Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn in his effort to end a long-running criminal case against him.
Democrats and some Republicans have accused Mr Trump of trying to undermine faith in the American electoral system and delegitimise Mr Biden’s victory by promoting false claims of widespread voter fraud. – Reuters
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