Sidney Powell joins the list of people Trump pretends not to know

[Nevilledog]

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.@MaddowBlog: Former President Trump said Sidney Powell was never part of his team. That's ridiculously untrue, but it's also part of an amazing pattern.

Trump throws yet another associate under the bus. When will they learn?
Donald Trump said Sidney Powell was never part of his team. That's ridiculously untrue, but it's also part of an amazing pattern.
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9:02 PM · Dec 9, 2021

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/sidney-powell-joins-list-people-trump-pretends-not-know-n1285677?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

It's clearly been a tough year for Sidney Powell and her bizarre anti-election conspiracy theories. She was fired from Team Trump; one of her big lawsuits became a fiasco; and federal prosecutors are demanding financial records from her operation as part of a reported criminal investigation.

Powell's position didn't improve when The Washington Post reported this week that her non-profit, Defending the Republic, raised more than $14 million by spreading obvious election falsehoods — and questions about where the money was going led many members of the group's staff and board to resign.

It was against this backdrop that Donald Trump sat down with conservative media figure Hugh Hewitt this week, and the host asked about the controversial lawyer's recent troubles. As the transcript shows, the former president responded as if he barely knew Powell.

"No, she was, she didn't work for me. She was a lawyer that was representing General [Mike] Flynn and some others, and she never officially — now she was on our side from the standpoint, I guess, you know, from the standpoint of what she was doing, but she didn't work for me as per se. She worked for General Flynn and others. And I disagree with some of the things that she's doing, and some of the statements that she made, as you know."

The Republican didn't literally say, "Sidney who?" but that appeared to be the subtext.

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Hewitt (if he was a serious journalist)...."OK, you claim here that she didn't work you you,

but did you take her money?"

[Leghorn21]

2. YEAH BABY

LOVE THIS!!!

Not doing Flynn any bigly favors here either!!

[Mr.Bill]

3. Well, if she never worked for him,

then there would be no Attorney-Client privilege if they had any conversations, right?

[Turbineguy]

4. Seduced and abandoned

[Ohio Joe]

5. Yet another one thrown under the bus...

They never seem to learn though... It's kind of funny actually.

[FakeNoose]

6. He means he never *paid* her

Of course she worked for him, she advised him along with Giuliani and Eastman, and she did whatever BS legal stuff he told her to do. Including the December "Stop the Steal" lawsuits that all failed miserably. Since Chump never paid her for her work, he thinks now he can get away with saying she didn't work for him. It's total bullcrap.

[MurrayDelph]

7. I still foresee a day when

he tries to claim it's bar a coincidence there is someone named Donald Trump Junior.