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Trump is reportedly considering appointing Sidney Powell as special counsel, according to The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and CNN
Based on a scoop from The New York Times, President Trump met with attorney Sidney Powell to discuss the possibility of making her a special counsel for investigating voter fraud allegations. According to the same report, multiple members of the Trump administration expressed concerns about Powell and such an appointment, including Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. "It was unclear if Mr. Trump will move ahead with such a plan," The New York Times reports.
Based on a scoop from The New York Times, President Trump met with attorney Sidney Powell to discuss the possibility of making her a special counsel for investigating voter fraud allegations. According to the same report, multiple members of the Trump administration expressed concerns about Powell and such an appointment, including Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. "It was unclear if Mr. Trump will move ahead with such a plan," The New York Times reports.
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NEW Trump weighed appointing Sidney Powell special counsel to probe voter fraud. Comes as Giuliani pressed DHS to seize and examine voting machines to find evidence of fraud. CUCCINELLI rejected, saying CISA lacked the legal authority. w/
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SCOOP - Sidney Powell was in Oval Office last night as POTUS discussed making her special counsel for election fraud.
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Among those pushing back on the idea was Pat Cipollone, Meadows and even Giuliani. But Giuliani separately pushed DHS this week to seize control of voting machines to examine them for possible fraud. DHS said it has no authority to do that. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/trump-discussed-naming-campaign-lawyer-as-special-counsel-on-election-fraud.html …
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The meeting got raucous, with various administration members drifting in and out and different people arguing. Powell told others they were quitters, people people briefed on the meeting https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/trump-discussed-naming-campaign-lawyer-as-special-counsel-on-election-fraud.html …
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The fact of the meeting - and Giuliani hope of seizing the voting machines - has alarmed some of the president's advisers, who see his desire to take his refusal to accept the election results as in a dangerous new place https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/trump-discussed-naming-campaign-lawyer-as-special-counsel-on-election-fraud.html …
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The New York Times reports President Trump is considering naming Sidney Powell a special counsel investigating voter fraud allegations. The campaign had previously sought to distance itself from Powell's legal work.https://trib.al/hR2DC03
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President Trump's campaign legal team sent a memo to dozens of staffers instructing them to preserve all documents related to Dominion Voting Systems and Sidney Powell in anticipation of potential litigation by the company against the pro-Trump attorney. https://cnn.it/2KBk9xo pic.twitter.com/AGP3XH2aCM
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Trump's interest in appoint Sidney Powell special counsel to investigate election fraud comes after he ordered her out of the legal team last month, telling advisers her ideas were too crazy. Giuliani has also voiced concerns about Powell to the president.https://www.wsj.com/articles/amid-vaccine-rollout-and-historic-hack-trump-remains-focused-on-reversing-election-11608401545 …
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NEW: Senior Trump administration officials are increasingly alarmed that President Trump might unleash — and abuse — the power of government in an effort to overturn the clear result of the election.https://www.axios.com/trump-officials-alarmed-overturn-election-results-a844d1d2-acb2-47a9-87ce-ac579458b1ea.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100 …
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Their fears include Trump's interest in former national security adviser Michael Flynn's wild talk of martial law; an idea floated of an executive order to commandeer voting machines; and the specter of Sidney Powell obtaining governmental power.https://www.axios.com/trump-officials-alarmed-overturn-election-results-a844d1d2-acb2-47a9-87ce-ac579458b1ea.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100 …
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Fact-checkers from The Associated Press, Reuters and PolitiFact report that there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the US election following an update from Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani on the president’s efforts to legally contest the results.https://twitter.com/i/events/1329511582485807105 …
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Attorney General William Barr told The AP that the Justice Department and FBI did not find evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.https://twitter.com/i/events/1333858768413548545/ …
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On Monday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected the Trump campaign's election lawsuit which sought to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.https://twitter.com/i/events/1338540408658251776 …
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The Supreme Court rejected a Texas lawsuit aiming to block electoral college votes from Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan.https://twitter.com/i/events/1337542838028943362 …
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