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Former President Donald Trump is distancing himself from attorney Sidney Powell in the wake of her guilty plea in the Georgia election interference case. “Sidney Powell was one of millions and millions of people who thought, and in ever increasing numbers still think, correctly, that the 2020 Presidential Election was RIGGED & STOLLEN,' Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday.
he wrote. Powell pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit election interference in Fulton County Superior Court last week, a day before she was set to stand trial on felony racketeering charges. Eric Segall, a law professor at Georgia State University, told NBC News that Trump’s assertion about Powell “is another example of Trump re-writing history and changing facts for his own purposes.
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