Sidney Powell Claims She’s Been Banned From Seeing Or Speaking To Trump

In a statement to Fox News on Tuesday, Pro-Trump attorney and conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell said she has been barred from interacting with President Trump, just hours after she was spotted at the White House and following reports that the president floated the idea of naming her special counsel to investigate baseless claims of voter fraud.

Powell claimed she was “blocked by the White House counsel and others from seeing or speaking to the president” after raising “evidence of foreign interference from Iran and China.”

A meeting with Powell, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, chief of staff Mark Meadows, and others at the White House turned sour on Friday, with Cipollone relaying to Trump that Powell had “no constitutional authority for what was being discussed,” according to the New York Times.

Most of Trump’s advisers have reportedly said they oppose naming her special counsel and grown tired of her increasingly unhinged conspiracy theories.

Powell has been seen at White House three times in the past week.

During an interview with Newsmax on Monday, Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani distanced the president from Powell, maintaining she “does not speak” for the administration.

Last month, the Trump campaign cut ties with Powell, insisting she “is not a member of the Trump Legal Team,” even though the president had said previously that she was.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR

According to the Daily Beast, Trump told Powell on Monday he is not planning on naming her special counsel.

KEY BACKGROUND

Powell has spouted wild conspiracy theories involving the election, including claiming Trump lost Georgia because Gov. Brian Kemp—a Trump ally and Republican—was bribed by an election systems company. She also appears to believe in the QAnon conspiracy theory.

CHIEF CRITIC

“Ms. Powell has peddled theories that have little basis in fact,” GOP strategist Karl Rove said on Fox News on Tuesday.

TANGENT

Even after she was pushed aside by Trump’s legal team, Powell continued to file lawsuits on behalf of the president. Last week, the city of Detroit asked a federal judge to sanction Powell for filing a “frivolous” lawsuit they alleged  “undermin[es] people’s faith in the democratic process.”

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