Sidney Powell hasn’t been able to see President Trump since last Friday and she says it’s because White House officials are blocking her from seeing Trump:
DC EXAMINER – Sidney Powell says she is being strong-armed away from President Trump by top White House officials.
The attorney, who has filed several unsuccessful “Kraken” lawsuits challenging the election results in battleground states, said she has been barred from seeing the president following an Oval Office meeting on Friday during which the president floated appointing Powell as special counsel to investigate allegations of voting fraud.
That meeting also involved Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, White House counsel Pat Cipollone, and former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, Powell’s client who was recently pardoned by Trump. At times it got heated, with occasional bouts of shouting, and Meadows and Cipollone strongly opposed some of the ideas being put forth, according to the New York Times.
Powell was spotted visiting the White House over the weekend and on Monday, but, as she would tell it, has not been able to get face time with Trump since that tense meeting. Powell shared a statement with the Washington Examiner on Tuesday in which she said Trump is not getting the support he needs in challenging the election, claimed she was trying to “educate” Giuliani of her claims of foreign election interference after he said on Newsmax on Monday she doesn’t represent the president, and denied that she has spoken to Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who recently delayed the release of an assessment on foreign meddling over a debate on China’s role in the matter.
“I haven’t met or spoken with the President since Friday night. The President knows this election was stolen but he is not getting the support he, the Constitution, and the Republic deserve. His own people are misleading and undermining him while protecting their own careers and agendas,” Powell said.
“I haven’t spoken with the DNI on these issues at all,” she added. “My efforts to educate Rudy on demonstrable foreign interference in the election including multiple CISA and FBI findings have been met with irrational hostility. I have been blocked by White House counsel and others from seeing or speaking to the President since I raised the public formal findings and even more evidence of the foreign interference from IRAN and CHINA in this election.”
“What are they all trying to hide? American elections are supposed to be easily auditable and transparent,” Powell continued. “That’s why Federal law punishes the failure to keep all records for 22 months with up to one year in prison. This is important not only to the United States but to the world. There is no way of hiding this fraud and ‘moving on’ as if any election could ever be trusted again. Our entire government seems to have become a big lie and coverup. The American people are 100% fed up with it.”
It may not just be White House officials. Rudy Giuliani continues to put distance between Team Trump and Powell, as he did on Newsmax yesterday:
“Let me say definitively: Sidney Powell is not part of our legal team. She hasn’t been for five weeks. She is not a special counsel for the president. She does not speak for the president, nor does she speak for the administration. She speaks for herself. And she’s a fine woman, a fine lawyer, but whatever she is talking about, it’s her own opinions. I’m not responsible for them, the president isn’t, nor is anybody else on our legal team,” Giuliani told Newsmax’s Sean Spicer in an interview.
I don’t know about you but this doesn’t really feel like a unified effort to me that leads to success – at least from the outside looking in. I realize the Trump campaign still has election cases in the courts in multiple states, but Powell has drawn a lot of the focus over the last month and a half. She and Lin Wood have galvanized a lot of support for Trump during the election challenges. I know Rudy distanced her from the campaign over a month ago, but it sounds like he and the people around Trump still don’t want the president anywhere near her or her accusations regarding Dominion and Smartronic. I know their cases have nothing to do with her, but still, I have trouble being optimistic with reports like this.