Pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell said on Thursday that the president’s advisers are preventing her from contacting President Trump
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In an interview with Zenger News, Powell said he heard only radio silence from the White House after his meeting with the president in the Oval Office on Friday, apparently confirming that she was unable to speak to Trump when he visited the White House on Sunday.
“I have been prevented from speaking or communicating with the president since I left the Oval Office on Friday night,” Powell told David Martsoko of Zenger, “by apparently everyone around him.”
Powell also said that Trump was offered the position of “special advisor” verbally during Friday’s meeting, but was unable to present him with the paperwork to make it official.
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“It didn’t happen, because it looks like it was blocked after Friday night, or undone, or I’m not sure what you would call it,” he added.
Her comments apparently reflect efforts by senior White House officials to freeze her relationship with the president and prevent her from gaining more access; CNN reported that Powell alongside former national security adviser Michael Flynn had a contentious meeting with White House advisers and Trump on Friday, which sometimes got heated when the president’s advisers rejected the duo’s most fanciful allegations of fraud. widespread electoral system.
The president and his allies, including Powell and Rudy Giuliani
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