Sidney Powell’s rise and fall from prosecutor to conspiracy theorist – Business Insider
- Sidney Powell has recently made national headlines over bizarre and baseless allegations of widespread fraud against President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
- Powell is a former federal prosecutor who was hired last year to represent ex-national security advisor Michael Flynn.
- Powell has made a number of far-fetched claims contesting the integrity of the presidential election, speaking to media outlets and at a press conference with members of the Trump campaign’s legal team.
- Though the Trump campaign’s legal team publicly distanced itself from Powell, she recently announced she filed two election-related lawsuits in Georgia and Michigan.
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The attorney Sidney Powell has recently made headlines for her groundless claims questioning the integrity of the presidential election.
The former federal prosecutor was hired last year to represent President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, Michael Flynn.
Though the Trump campaign’s legal team publicly split from Powell last week and said she is “is not a member of the Trump Legal Team,” Powell announced this past week she filed election lawsuits against Georgia and Michigan.
Here is a look into Powell’s legal and political journey, and where her series of baseless claims of election fraud began.
Powell did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for comment for this story.
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