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Dallas lawyer Sidney Powell’s Texas roots: Ambition, prestige and a propensity for conspiracy theories
Powell established the foundation of her legal career in Texas before finding her way to the president’s ear.
Decades before Sidney Powell joined President Donald Trump’s “elite strike force team” of lawyers alleging voter fraud without evidence, the lawyer made her name in Texas legal circles.
She rose to national prominence in her battle to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, alleging voter fraud at the hand of election companies, including far-reaching conspiracy theories. In one press conference with Trump’s lawyer and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Powell claimed that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, directed Dominion voting machines to take votes from Trump and flip them to President-elect Joe Biden.
President Donald Trump, irritated at being impeached for a second time, has told people to stop paying Rudy Giuliani's legal fees, a person familiar with the matter tells CNN, though aides were not clear if the President was serious about his instructions given he's lashing out at nearly everyone after the day's events.