What a SCUMBAG
Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers’ Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows
Days before lawyers allied with Donald Trump gave a news conference promoting election conspiracy theories, his campaign had determined that many of those claims were false, court filings reveal.
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Sidney Powell, a lawyer allied with Donald J. Trump’s campaign, spoke at the Republican National Committee’s headquarters in November and pushed baseless claims of election tampering.
Sidney Powell, a lawyer allied with Donald J. Trump’s campaign, spoke at the Republican National Committee’s headquarters in November and pushed baseless claims of election tampering.Credit...Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA, via Shutterstock
By Alan Feuer
Sept. 21, 2021, 2:11 p.m. ET
Two weeks after the 2020 election, a team of lawyers closely allied with Donald J. Trump held a widely watched news conference at the Republican Party’s headquarters in Washington. At the event, they laid out a bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that a voting machine company had worked with an election software firm, the financier George Soros and Venezuela to steal the presidential contest from Mr. Trump.
But there was a problem for the Trump team, according to court documents released on Monday evening.
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