Attorney @SidneyPowell1 said that senior @WhiteHouse aides are preventing her from communicating with President Trump and are blocking her efforts to assume a formal coordinating role in pursuing contest-of-#Election challenges on the president’s behalf. https://t.co/vb5R6ciLqE
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) December 26, 2020
Attorney Sidney Powell says efforts for her to take on a formal role in investigating massive ballot fraud in the Nov. 3 election are being blocked by people in the White House and around President Trump.
Powell made the statements in an interview with Zenger News this week.
Former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne says he was present in an Oval Office meeting on Friday, Dec. 18, when Powell was asked to serve as “special White House counsel” to investigate election fraud by President Trump.
Powell says she has been unable to present Mr. Trump with paperwork that would make it official or communicate with him more generally ever since.
“It has not come to pass,” Powell said, “because it seems it was blocked after Friday night, or undone, or I’m not sure what you’d call it” by senior White House staff.
“I’ve been blocked from speaking to or communicating with the president since I left the Oval Office on Friday night,” Powell added, “by apparently everyone around” him.
Powell clarified that the role she was offered was “not a Robert Mueller-style special counsel,” but “a special White House counsel.” A special counsel is appointed by the Attorney General, while the president has the authority to unilaterally appoint a special White House counsel.
Byrne blames White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and members of the White House legal team for refusing to carry out the order from the President and slow-walking Powell’s appointment.
“At a meeting, the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, told senators to “make the most” of President Donald Trump’s remaining few weeks in office”@realDonaldTrump https://t.co/91ApVXbiXy
— Ron (@CodeMonkeyZ) December 25, 2020