Donald Trump is instantly claiming Sidney Powell was by no means his lawyer, however reporters and social media customers had been fast to jog his reminiscence.
The previous president posted on Fact Social on Sunday morning that the election-denying lawyer “WAS NOT MY ATTORNEY, AND NEVER WAS.”
The submit adopted Thursday’s information that Powell had reached a take care of Fulton County prosecutors dealing with the Georgia racketeering case towards Trump and 17 others over an alleged plot to vary the state’s 2020 election outcomes.
Powell pleaded responsible to 6 misdemeanors associated to deliberately interfering with an election.
In alternate for her cooperation with prosecutors, Powell should serve six years of probation, pay a tremendous of $6,000 and write an apology to Georgia residents.
Over on X (previously Twitter), folks promptly identified somebody who contradicts Trump’s newest model of occasions: Trump, in 2020.
Trump introduced in a tweet on Nov. 15, 2020, that Powell had joined his “really nice” authorized workforce, weeks after dropping the election to President Joe Biden, because the Washington Put up’s Aaron Blake famous.
Trump’s former private lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who led the authorized cost to overturn the 2020 outcomes, additionally made feedback explicitly on the contrary.
At a now-infamous press convention on Nov. 19, 2020, Giuliani launched himself, Powell and others as members of Trump’s authorized workforce, saying, “We’re representing President Trump and we’re representing the Trump marketing campaign.”
Trump is now mendacity and saying Sidney Powell was by no means his lawyer. Right here is Rudy Giuliani in November 2020 introducing Sidney Powell as a lawyer for each Donald Trump and the Trump marketing campaign. pic.twitter.com/mPOQxyEH8f
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) October 22, 2023
Powell testified underneath oath earlier than the Home Jan. 6 committee that Trump had requested her to be “particular counsel to handle the election points.”
Video of that second from her deposition was proven at one of many panel’s congressional hearings final 12 months.
Donald Trump: ‘I don’t know Sidney Powell, by no means met her, don’t know something about her, possibly I took an image together with her one time. I take a whole lot of photos…’
Sidney Powell: pic.twitter.com/AVk58d6aUK
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) October 22, 2023
Some folks, together with HuffPost’s S.V. Dáte, additionally famous that if Trump claims Powell was by no means his lawyer, then which means he was by no means entitled to attorney-client privilege — a tidbit that prosecutors would possibly discover helpful.
Jack Smith and Fani Willis, for those who’re listening and had been ever anxious about having to pierce attorney-client privilege with Sidney Powell, you’ll be able to cease. pic.twitter.com/7GYqKsNCEm
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) October 22, 2023
See among the different posts about Trump’s declare under:
Oh, so NOW Trump says that Sidney Powell was NEVER his lawyer? Humorous how he referred to as her that when she was busy spreading election lies, and when he wished to make her SPECIAL COUNSEL to research non-existent election fraud. However now that she’s pleaded responsible? “I BARELY KNEW…
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 22, 2023
Sidney Powell & Kenneth Chesebro illegally tried to overturn the 2020 elections. Trump lawyer Powell pleaded responsible to election interference. Chesebro pleaded responsible to conspiracy to file false paperwork in Trump pretend electors plot.
Who do you suppose they took directions from? https://t.co/iH4t3lMmdF
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) October 22, 2023
He has by no means met her. She was simply the marketing campaign authorized workforce’s espresso woman.
😂😂😂
Trump claims Sidney Powell was ‘by no means’ his lawyer after her responsible plea in Georgia election case. https://t.co/OLJ59Qf9lp
— Covie (@covie_93) October 22, 2023
Donald Trump stated right this moment that Sidney Powell was ‘by no means his lawyer & by no means represented him.’
So who’re you going to imagine, Donald Trump or Donald Trump? pic.twitter.com/96ksOFVrBc
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) October 22, 2023
Trump pulls his common stunt with Sidney Powell, who has now flipped on him: “I don’t know Sidney Powell. I’ll have met her a few times, or posed for an image together with her, however that’s it”. Oh, and the secure genius nonetheless doesn’t know the way to spell “stolen”. pic.twitter.com/vQREHNwDLl
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) October 22, 2023
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