President Donald Trump’s campaign on Sunday distanced itself from Sidney Powell, saying that the lawyer who has been alleging voter fraud in the November election is “not a member of the Trump Legal Team.”
Trump referred to Powell as a member of this team several times, but the Trump campaign distanced itself from Powell later in the month. On November 22, 2020, Trump campaign lawyers Rudy Guliani and Jenna Ellis issued a statement that Powell is practicing on her own and is not a part of the legal team nor a personal lawyer for Donald Trump,[28][29] though President Trump on November 14 had stated via Twitter that she was.[30][31][32][33] According to The Washington Post, the Trump campaign cut ties with Powell because it perceived Powell's promotion of increasingly outrageous conspiracy theories to be an embarrassment to Trump's broader legal efforts.