The Trump legal teamâs move to distance itself from attorney Sidney Powell as it seeks to overturn the Nov. 3 election results is a major blow to the presidentâs attempt to win a second term. Powell, whose 2014 book, âLicensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice,â along with her work as the attorney for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, made her a darling of conservatives. But her assertions that Chinese communists, voting machines once used to flip Venezuelan elections and foreign money were behind Trumpâs defeat lack as much credibility as Sen. Joseph McCarthyâs claim in the 1950s that communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department.