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Sidney Powell pushes claims that 2020 election was rigged and prosecutors 'extorted' her after she pleaded guilty to election interference
Sidney Powell has continued to push conspiracy theories claiming the election was rigged after she pleaded guilty to election interference.
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Sidney Powell may have pleaded guilty to interfering in the 2020 US presidential election, but she still seems to think President Joe Biden's victory was illegitimate.
On her social-media accounts, Powell has continued to push claims that the 2020 election was rigged and that prosecutors in Georgia who brought the criminal case against her were politically motivated. The newsletter published by her dark-money group has shared articles arguing the Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, "extorted" her guilty plea.
Powell is a codefendant in Willis' sprawling RICO lawsuit against Donald Trump and more than a dozen of his allies who sought to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. She initially represented Trump, alongside Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis (who pleaded guilty on Monday), as part of Trump's "Elite Strike Force" team of lawyers challenging his election loss.
The charges against Powell specifically accused her of racketeering, tampering with election equipment, stealing voter data, and lying to public officials about it. The indictment says Powell and Trump met at the White House in December 2020 and discussed strategies for overturning the election. Powell also filed her own conspiratorial and typo-filled lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results — all of which failed —in four swing states.
In her hearing Thursday, Powell pleaded guilty to six charges related to her scheme to tamper with election equipment and steal voter data in Coffee County.
None of those developments — nor the ongoing defamation lawsuits from the election-technology companies Dominion and Smartmatic — appear to have changed her tune.
On X, formerly known as Twitter, she has shared posts purporting that the 2020 election was rigged and that law enforcement was politically biased against conservatives.
Over the weekend, Powell shared a post complaining that Trump "can't even have attorney client privilege." She also shared a post that said a new survey found many Democrats believed "cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 election."
Monday, she asked her followers to watch "Police State," a new movie from the conservative activist Dinesh D'Souza, which argues that law enforcement is biased against Trump, who faces four pending criminal cases.
"Go see this movie!! It is so important and terrifying because it is true," Powell wrote, tagging right-wing media figures including @catturd2, Dan Bongino, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
(D'Souza himself had previously pleaded guilty to making an illegal campaign contribution and was pardoned by Trump.)
Powell also reposted a video from Tom Fitton, who runs the right-wing watchdog organization Judicial Watch and is said to have advised Trump on his legal issues. In the video, Fitton said Trump was under attack "for daring to dispute the Biden election," which he lost.
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