Sidney Powell pushes claims that 2020 election was rigged and prosecutors 'extorted' her after she pleaded guilty to election interference
Jacob Shamsian
Tue, October 24, 2023 at 4:43 PM CDT·6 min read
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Sidney Powell, right, speaks next to former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, as members of President Donald Trump's legal team, during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters.AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
- Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to election interference in Georgia's criminal case last week.
- On social media, she has continued to push claims that the 2020 election was rigged and prosecutors target conservatives.
- Her organization's newsletter urged her followers to read an article arguing the DA "extorted a guilty plea from Powell."
Sidney Powell may have pleaded guilty to interfering in the 2020 presidential election, but she still seems to think President Joe Biden's victory was illegitimate.
On her social media accounts, Powell has continued to push claims that the 2020 election was rigged and that prosecutors in Georgia who brought the criminal case against her are politically motivated. The newsletter published by her dark money group has shared articles arguing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis "extorted" her guilty plea.
Powell is a co-defendant in
Willis' sprawling RICO lawsuit against Donald Trump and more than a dozen of his allies who sought to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. She initially represented Trump, alongside Rudy Giuliani and
Jenna Ellis (who pleaded guilty on Monday), as part of the former president's "Elite Strike Force" team of lawyers challenging his election loss.
The charges against Powell specifically accused her of racketeering, tampering with election equipment, stealing voter data, and lying to public officials about it. According to the indictment, Powell and Trump met in the White House in December 2020, where they discussed strategies for overturning the election. Powell also filed her own conspiratorial and typo-filled lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results in four swing states,
all of which failed.
In
her hearing Thursday,
Powell pleaded guilty to six charges related to her scheme to tamper with election equipment and steal voter data in Coffee County.
None of that — nor
the ongoing defamation lawsuits from election technology companies Dominion and Smartmatic — appear to have changed her tune.
On X, formerly known as Twitter, she has shared posts purporting the 2020 election was rigged and that law enforcement was politically biased against conservatives.
Over the weekend, Powell
shared a post complaining that Trump "can't even have attorney client privilege." She also
shared a post about a survey that claimed many Democrats believe "cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 election."
On Monday, she asked her followers to watch "Police State," a new movie from conservative activist Dinesh D'Souza, which argues that law enforcement is biased against former President Donald Trump, who currently faces
four pending criminal cases.
"Go see this movie!! It is so important and terrifying because it is true,"
Powell wrote, tagging right-wing media figures including catturd2, Dan Bongino, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
(D'Souza himself had previously pleaded guilty to making an illegal campaign contribution and was pardoned by Trump.)
Powell also reposted
a video from Tim Fitton, who runs the right-wing watchdog organization Judicial Watch and has reportedly advised Trump on his legal issues. In the video, Fitton claimed Trump was under attack "for daring to dispute the Biden election," which he lost.
Her
pinned post on her X profile is a graph suggesting that Georgia counted an unusual number of ballots voting for Democrats at the last minute. Biden won the state by more than 11,000 votes, a result confirmed by
both an audit and a recount of the state's ballots.
Powell has also been promoting posts about the testimony of a witness in a separate, ongoing California disbarment trial for John Eastman, a co-defendant in the Atlanta criminal case and former Trump Justice Department official who sought to overturn the election results.
One post she promoted on the subject claimed there was "lots of evidence of election fraud being presented" in the trial. Another claimed there was "Too much evidence of the rigging."
Powell's newsletter promoted a claim that Willis 'extorted' her guilty plea