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She was mocked for fighting to change the election results and ultimately too crazy even for the ex-president.
Now the lawyer can have the last laugh.
– Trump should be nervous now, says ex-prosecutor Joyce Vance.
With his incredible theories and fascinating tone, sleazy and uptight at the same time, the lawyer Sidney Powell, 68, became a cult figure during Donald Trump’s attempt to change the election results.
Some of the president’s critics believed that she lied completely shamelessly. Others were convinced she was mad as hell.
Powell is one of 19 defendants in the investigation surrounding the suspected attempts to manipulate the presidential election in Georgia.
Can testify against Trump
Now she has settled with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to intentionally interfere with vote counting.
A significantly milder charge than those she was originally suspected of.
The lawyer must pay approximately SEK 60,000, receive a six-year suspended sentence and must make a written apology to the residents of Georgia.
But above all, it is included in the conditions that Sidney Powell undertakes to testify truthfully against the other defendants in the tangle.
And one of these is Donald Trump.
“Powell pleads guilty in Georgia. If she cooperates, it could prove devastating for Trump,” former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote on X, formerly Twitter, adding that the terms of the settlement indicate the prosecutor sees “high value” in Powell’s testimony, which should make the former president “nervous.”
Believed in global conspiracy
Sidney Powell was by Trump’s side in the first chaotic weeks after the election loss until she was fired in late November 2020.
In a big fight in the “elite force” that fought for Trump, even Rudy Giuliani, who himself became something of a national drift cuckoo during these strange weeks, must have thought that Powell’s accusations were too wild.
Duo Powell and Giuliani both attended the sensational post-election press conference when the broad and substanceless allegations of voter fraud first spread.
It was during that press conference that black liquid suddenly began to flow from Rudy Giuliani’s skull, probably hair dye that melted in the heat.
The more sane elements of Trump’s staff must, according to Politico, have watched with horror the “circus-like show of conspiracy theories” during the press conference.
Briefly, Powell’s accusations were that three million dead people voted in the election and that a global communist conspiracy with tampered vote counting machines was behind the results.
“Need a little madness”
A total of ten million votes could have been stolen from the president, Powell said.
“She was even too crazy for the president,” said one of Trump’s campaign staffers to the Washington Post after the announcement.
Trump had relayed her theories on Twitter and in speeches and wanted to hear what she had to say, even though he had admitted to advisers that he thought she didn’t seem to have all her horses at home.
– Sometimes you need a little madness, Trump told one of the staff, according to Axios.
Just a few days earlier, Sidney Powell participated via speakerphone in one of the inner circle meetings in the Oval Office.
– Ah, Sidney. She’s getting a little crazy, huh? She really needs to tone it down. Nobody believes that stuff. It’s too much, Trump told those in attendance before picking up the phone.
Very bad news for Trump
The President put the call on speakerphone so everyone could listen. Sidney Powell went on about a national security crisis involving Iranians switching vote winners in waver states.
Donald Trump muted the sound so she wouldn’t hear and laughed mockingly, wrote Axios who revealed the scene from inside the Oval Office in January of the following year.
– So what are we going to do about it, Sidney? he said several times as the lawyer became more and more agitated.
– She is really crazy, said the president as he silenced the sound once more.
Now the scorned lawyer may get the last laugh by settling with prosecutor Fani T Willis.
– I think it’s very bad news for Trump, says law professor Clark D Cunningham to The New York Times.
He believes that Powell’s close access to the then-president and repeated visits to the White House “put her in the middle of the conspiracy” that the case is about.