Trump fires Sidney Powell, lawyer who blamed Hugo Chávez for Joe Biden's win
The attorney made a number of false claims, including that the software used to vote in Georgia was created by order of the late Hugo Chávez.
Although Donald Trump's legal campaign to reverse the presidential election has wielded a long list of fake news and unproven accusations, it appears that attorney Sidney Powell has gone too far. Yes, even for Rudy Giuliani.
The lawyer said at a press conference last week that the Dominion software, used to vote in Georgia, was created at the behest of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who passed away in 2013.
In a shaky tone of voice, Powell assured that the elections were rigged thanks to a "massive influence of communist money" coming "from Cuba, Venezuela and probably China." He then summoned an alleged witness who would have been in the same room where Chávez would have ordered the creation of the software.
“Sidney Powell practices law on her own. She is not a member of Trump's legal team. She is also not the president's attorney in a personal capacity, "Giuliani and another Trump attorney, Jenna Ellis, said in a statement released Sunday.
In recent days, Trump praised his legal team as "wonderful attorneys and representatives," but there was no immediate statement from his campaign regarding the separation of Powell.
Defeats, one after another
The statement would seem to hint at little consensus in the president's legal team who denounces, without proof or evidence, that the presidential election was fraudulent and that he is the rightful winner and not Democrat Joe Biden.
Since November 3, they have filed various lawsuits in the states of Michigan, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. In all of these, the various state courts have denied that there is even the slightest evidence of widespread fraud that would have resulted in an illegal election.
Despite everything, the president continues to issue virulent statements on his social networks, which are immediately marked as false or misleading by platforms such as Facebook or Twitter.
“In certain undecided states, there were more votes than people who did, and in large numbers. That does not really matter? They stopped our observers, voting for unsuspecting people, fake ballots and much more. What atrocious behavior. We will win! ", He wrote this Monday at dawn. This is followed by a warning posted by Twitter that reads: "This claim about electoral fraud is questionable."
