The former president weighed in on Sidney Powell’s recent guilty plea in Fulton County, Georgia.
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday responded to attorney Sidney Powell’s guilty plea in a Fulton County, Georgia, election case by saying that she wasn’t ever his attorney.
“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 & stolen,” he wrote on Truth Social.
He added that Ms. Powell “was not my attorney and never was.” If she was his attorney, “she would have been conflicted,” the former president said.
“Ms. Powell did a valiant job of representing a very unfairly treated and governmentally abused General Mike Flynn, but to no avail. His prosecution, despite the facts, was ruthless. He was an innocent man, much like many other innocent people who are being persecuted by this now Fascist government of ours, and I was honored to give him a Full Pardon,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social.
As Ms. Powell’s trial in Fulton County approached, she tried to distance herself from President Trump. She “did not represent President Trump or the Trump campaign” because she never signed an “engagement agreement” to be their attorney in an official capacity, her attorneys said in a court filing in August, coming weeks after she was charged.
The court filing added that Ms. Powell’s name wasn’t ever on any Trump campaign court filings.
Ms. Powell agreed to cooperate with the Fulton County District Attorney’s office and testify against her co-defendants in the election-related case. In return, she pleaded guilty to six misdemeanors and agreed to pay a fine, while it did not require her to plead guilty to the racketeering charge that ensnared her and 18 co-defendants, including the former president.
The plea was issued as she was slated to go to trial on Oct. 23 alongside attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who similarly pleaded guilty to related crimes last week. And like Ms. Powell, Mr. Chesebro agreed to testify against other defendants in the case.
