Sidney Powell: Trump trusted me because 'everybody else was telling him to pack up and go'

Former President Donald Trump's ex-legal adviser Sidney Powell had a simple explanation for Georgia prosecutors trying to figure out why the former president listened to her — even as she pushed bizarre conspiracy theories and claimed she could time travel and talk to the wind.

According to The Washington Post, she told attorneys working for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis that Trump ignored White House counsel and listened to her instead “because we were the only ones willing to support his effort to sustain the White House. I mean, everybody else was telling him to pack up and go.”

Powell is one of several attorneys who helped Trump craft his plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and have since pleaded guilty and moved to cooperate in Willis' election racketeering probe.

Others include Jenna Ellis, who tearfully confessed to her wrongdoing, and Kenneth Chesebro, who admitted that he helped draft a memo outlining how to ignore the election results.

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Ellis backed up Powell's account, telling prosecutors that “the boss” [meaning Trump] did not intend to step down from office “under any circumstances.”

Trump has since tried to discredit these accounts, particularly saying of Powell that she was never actually his attorney — although public evidence and Powell's own testimony appears to contradict this.

The Georgia case is one of two separate criminal prosecutions Trump is facing for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election, the other being a federal case in Washington, D.C. brought by special counsel Jack Smith.