'She has compelling evidence': Powell could reportedly be 'serious threat' to Trump
October 19, 2023
She's a Trump turncoat.
Sidney Powell's decision to plead guilty to interfering with the presidential election in Georgia could do damage to Trump and the rest of the defendants, according to a New York Times report.
The paper cited two sources close to Trump stressing Powell's plea deal move because the attorney tried to back Trump as the victor in the 2020 presidential election "might be a more problematic trial witness than it seems, given her outlandish statements."
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As part of the deal, Powell will be spared serving time behind bars.
But she must testify at trial in Fulton County and must write an apology letter to Georgians.
“You don’t give a no-jail plea deal unless that person’s got something very good to say that will help your case against the others,” Chris Christie told USA Today while stumping in New Hampshire.
Her decision to flip for the prosecution comes after it was learned that attorney Kenneth Chesebro, one of the 18 co-defendants charged alongside the 45th president in the Fulton County racketeering case, declined the offer that would have allowed him to dodge prison time and will go to trial.
Powell earned an unflattering reputation as an attorney who trumpeted bogus claims that painted Dominion Voting Systems as an amorphous Big Brother that cheated in the 2020 election.
Powell is still facing a defamation lawsuit from Dominion related to her alleged false claims that the company along with Smartmatic were in cahoots with the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to undermine the integrity of the elections from conservatives.
She stated at the time: “The Dominion Voting Systems, the Smartmatic technology software, and the software that goes in other computerized voting systems here as well, not just Dominion, were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an election after one constitutional referendum came out the way he did not want it to come out.”
The accusation was found to be baseless, according to the AP.
The Times' reporters Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman suggest that Powell's metamorphosis from a Trump circle lawyer with a wild imagination to cooperating witness "presents a potentially serious threat" to the former president "given that she is in a position to speak firsthand about a range of schemes that he and his allies undertook to subvert the democratic process."