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Trump holds meeting with lawyer Sidney Powell, who he fired for conspiracy theories, as he considers making her special counsel to investigate voter fraud

Donald Trump on Friday held an Oval Office meeting with Sidney Powell, who was unceremoniously dropped from his legal team, to consider appointing her as special counsel for election fraud, according to multiple reports.

Powell, who was Michael Flynn's lawyer and is known for her support of wild conspiracy theories, was briefly a member of Trump's team, headed by Rudy Giuliani. 

On Friday, as Powell was in the White House, alongside Flynn while Giuliani joined the discussion by phone. 

This week, on Newamax, Flynn pushed Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to 'rerun' the election. At one point in the meeting on Friday, Trump asked about that idea. 

Sidney Powell was at the White House on Friday night for a meeting with Donald Trump

Sidney Powell was at the White House on Friday night for a meeting with Donald Trump

Donald Trump is reportedly considering appointing Powell as a special counsel

Donald Trump is reportedly considering appointing Powell as a special counsel

Powell was named to Trump's 'elite strike-force' of lawyers on November 14. 

Her performance at a November 19 press conference had alarmed many of the president's allies, when she alleged that the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had worked to rigged election machines, in cahoots with China and Iran, to work against Trump.

By November 23 she was, they announced, 'practicing law on her own', and she has since filed several suits which have got nowhere. 

The New York Times reported that the meeting 'became raucous at times'.  

White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, and Mark Meadows, the chief of staff, pushed back on the ideas being proposed.

Trump also asked about Powell being given security clearances to pursue her work, two of the people briefed on the meeting said. 

Powell accused other Trump advisers of being quitters, according to the people briefed.

Trump and Giuliani have been pushing for data as evidence of widespread election fraud, despite being unable to bring any proof before a judge.

Bill Barr, the attorney general, rejected publicly the idea of widespread election fraud weeks ago. His resignation was announced this week. 

Giuliani and his team have lost 59 cases, according to a tally kept by Democrat lawyer Marc Elias, and one one - a minor victory, relating to the period of time in which you can return to change an early vote in Pennsylvania, if you change your mind.

Finding themselves unable to argue fraud before a judge, and with the cross-examination of their witnesses, they have turned to holding 'hearings' across the country, where supporters of the president claim they have seen massive fraud being carried out. 

Powell's meeting on Friday was also called to discuss the use of Dominion voting machines - a source of much contention for the Trump team, who claim that they were rigged, with the support of Venezuela's late president, Hugo Chavez, to switch votes from Trump to Biden.

During the White House meeting they discussed the possibility of an executive order to take control of voting machines to examine them, according to one of the people briefed, who spoke to the New York Times. 

Giuliani has separately pressed the Department of Homeland Security to seize possession of voting machines as part of a push to overturn the results of the election, three people familiar with the discussion said. 

Giuliani was told the department does not have the authority to do such a thing.

The Trump campaign on Saturday sent a memo to campaign officials telling them to preserve documents related to Powell and Dominion in case of legal action by the company against Powell.

Powell, an attorney for Michael Flynn (right), is a known QAnon conspiracy theorist. It was her representation of Flynn, who pleaded guilty in a plea deal with the Mueller inquiry to lying to the FBI, which propelled her on to the MAGA stage

Powell, an attorney for Michael Flynn , is a known QAnon conspiracy theorist. It was her representation of Flynn, who pleaded guilty in a plea deal with the Mueller inquiry to lying to the FBI, which propelled her on to the MAGA stage


After Powell's meeting, Trump on Saturday tweeted again that the election had been stolen from him. 


White House reporters said that Trump's meeting with Powell and Flynn had left many within the administration deeply concerned. 

Powell's efforts so far have been a comedy of errors.

Shortly after midnight on the eve of Thanksgiving she published a 104-page document detailing allegations about Georgia and a 75-page document looking at Michigan, calling for the election results to be decertified, Trump to be declared the winner and voting machines to be impounded.

In the documents she alleged the election had been 'rigged' to favor Joe Biden, and that foreign powers were involved. 

She tweeted: 'The #Kraken was just released on #Georgia', along with a link to her website.

She added: 'Exhibits to follow. Also #ReleaseTheKraken in #Michigan'.

Powell has pushed some of most extreme conspiracy theories around Biden's win. 

Powell is pictured at a rally in Alpharetta, Georgia on December 2 to talk about election fraud

Powell is pictured at a rally in Alpharetta, Georgia on December 2 to talk about election fraud 

But, despite allegations from her and other Trump defenders, no evidence has emerged of widespread voter fraud. 

The Trump legal team - which has distanced itself from Powell and her two suits - has filed almost 60 suits of its own in battleground states trying to overturn the election. The vast majority of them have been thrown out of court.

In her filings, the maverick lawyer spelled out claims she had previously made at a tumultuous press conference the week before - namely that Georgia and Michigan used election machinery designed by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, with the express wish of rigging the vote.

She alleges that China and Iran used these voting systems to influence the US election, and that 96,000 votes cast for Biden in Georgia were illegally counted.

The lawyer also claims that officials in one Georgia county forced everyone to evacuate because of a water leak, only for counters to stay unsupervised to tamper with the votes. 

But Powell's filings were riddled with typos, with both misspelling the name of the courts they were being filed in. 

In the Georgia filing, the court was named as 'United States Districct Court, Northern Distrcoict of Georgia', while the Michigan court was named as the 'Eastern Distrct of Michigan'. 

In the 104-page document detailing allegations about Georgia, the court was named as 'United States Districct Court, Northern Distrcoict of Georgia'

In the 104-page document detailing allegations about Georgia, the court was named as 'United States Districct Court, Northern Distrcoict of Georgia'

Powell also released a 75-page document looking at Michigan, but named the court as the 'Eastern Distrct of Michigan'

Powell also released a 75-page document looking at Michigan, but named the court as the 'Eastern Distrct of Michigan'

Powell's claims, and her White House visit, come after she spent years cultivating Trump's attention with regular appearances on Fox.

But her appearance on the network led to host Tucker Carlson calling her out for her lack of evidence for the new theories.

Carlson stopped short of calling Powell's claims outlandish – but he did note that she refused repeated invitations to defend them. 

'We invited Sidney Powell on the show. We would have given her the whole hour,' Carlson told his prime time audience.

'But she never sent us any evidence, despite a lot of requests, polite requests. Not a page. When we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her.' 

He said his show approached the subject with an open mind. 

'We did not dismiss any of it. We don't dismiss anything anymore,' Carlson said.

'This may be the single most open minded show on television.  We literally do UFO segments.' 

He said: 'She never demonstrated that a single actual vote was moved illegitimately by software from one candidate to another. Not one.'

Her social media accounts have been flooded with QAnon conspiracy theories and she had been on the President's radar since representing his disgraced former national security adviser Mike Flynn.

Now Powell, a 65-year-old mother of one who practices law in Dallas but is from Raleigh, North Carolina, appears to be trying to monetize her infamy.

The website for the Legal Defense Fund appears to have been set up on November 11, a day after she appeared on the Lou Dobbs show on Fox.

Originally it stated that '$500,000 must be raised in the next 24 hours' but it was updated to ask for 'millions' in donations to stop the certification of ballots.  

The Trump campaign issued a statement saying that Sidney Powell is not associated with them on November 22, 2020

The Trump campaign issued a statement saying that Sidney Powell is not associated with them on November 22, 2020 

The mission of the organization is listed as: 'To protect and defend the lawful votes of American citizens, ensure election integrity, educate the world on what it means to be a constitutional Republic, and pursue legal action to preserve the vision of our Founders and to maintain this great Republic.'

The website adds: 'The future of our Republic is at stake. The left, the media, and a complicit Republican Establishment are attempting to steal this election through a staggering voter fraud operation. The time to fight is now.'

The website has a form for credit card payments and suggests that rather than writing checks to The Legal Defense Fund people should make them payable to 'Sidney Powell'.

The address that is given is a UPS store in West Palm Beach, Florida, which appears to be a PO Box.

According to IRS guidelines a 501(4) normally applies to 'civic leagues or organizations not organized for profit but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare'.

Examples include a 'community association that works to improve public service' by publishing a free community newspaper.

Neighborhood watch patrols could be another option as would an organization that arranges an 'annual festival of regional customs and traditions'.

The IRS test for a 501(4) organization is that it must be 'primarily engaged' in social welfare issues but the language is loose enough to allow organizations like The Legal Defense Fund to operate.

DailyMail.com previously revealed that Powell began her legal career by attending law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, served as a U.S. attorney in Texas, and represented executives at fallen energy giant Enron.

It was her representation of Flynn, who pleaded guilty in a plea deal with the Mueller inquiry to lying to the FBI, which propelled her on to the MAGA stage. Flynn was pardoned by Trump on the eve of Thanksgiving.

It also appears to be the origin of her use of the nickname or slogan The Kraken.  

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