Who Is Sidney Powell? Meet Trump’s New Top Conspiracy Theorist.

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2020/11/20/who-is-sidney-powell-meet-trumps-new-top-conspiracy-theorist/?sh=140230c61f9d

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2020/11/20/who-is-sidney-powell-meet-trumps-new-top-conspiracy-theorist/?sh=140230c61f9d

Topline

As President Donald Trump tries to sue his way to a second term, lawyer Sidney Powell has satiated his appetite for implausible conspiracy theories and seemingly baseless vote-rigging allegations, vaulting the former prosecutor and frequent Trump defender from the Fox News pundit circuit to the outgoing president’s inner circle.

 Key Facts

Powell joined Rudy Giuliani’s legal team to help overturn Trump’s electoral losses, and has reportedly earned Trump’s attention for her willingness to openly endorse the fact-free idea that voting machine manufacturers and election software companies rigged the election in President-elect Joe Biden’s favor.

The former prosecutor landed in Trump’s orbit after casting herself as a chronicler of corruption at the Justice Department, writing missives about how Robert Mueller’s probe into Trump’s relationship with Russia was actually a shadowy effort to undermine him.