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kpete

(72,898 posts)
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 09:57 AM Oct 2023

Trump today: "MS. POWELL WAS NOT MY ATTORNEY AND NEVER WAS."

Trump, 11/14/20: Sidney Powell "added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives!"

Trump Now Says Sydney Powell Was Not His Attorney

Donald Trump on Truth Social attempted to distance himself from Sidney Powell after her plea deal with Georgia prosecutors: “Despite the Fake News reports to the contrary… Ms. Powell was not my attorney, and never was. In fact, she would have been conflicted.”


https://politicalwire.com/2023/10/22/trump-now-says-sydney-powell-was-not-his-attorney/

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Trump today: "MS. POWELL WAS NOT MY ATTORNEY AND NEVER WAS." (Original Post) kpete Oct 2023 OP
So no atty-client priv then, eh? getagrip_already Oct 2023 #1
She wasn't his attorney, she would just bring him Diet Cokes from time to time. 🤣 TheBlackAdder Oct 2023 #31
Cofefe and Stollen Hekate Oct 2023 #63
Perhaps the orange menace that the bread was stolen GreenWave Oct 2023 #64
Bingo! CaptainTruth Oct 2023 #60
The "I don't know this person" schtick?" ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2023 #2
Don't know about you, but... MissMillie Oct 2023 #72
That " someone I don't know" KNOWS ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2023 #73
So there goes any claim of attorney-client privilege, right? Ocelot II Oct 2023 #3
It appears that way. ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2023 #74
It doesn't matter if she was underpants Oct 2023 #4
She would have been conflicted? CrispyQ Oct 2023 #5
Indeed. "Conflicted? I do not think that word means what you think it means." thesquanderer Oct 2023 #55
Had he said Rudy wasn't his attorney yet? dem4decades Oct 2023 #6
Rudy has not had a plea bargain--YET! riversedge Oct 2023 #12
Don't worry. That's coming. calimary Oct 2023 #13
Interesting....... MyOwnPeace Oct 2023 #48
I bet money on Wednesday. My friend says late Friday. -nt CrispyQ Oct 2023 #59
He never paid him so in his criminal mob-boss mind... Justice matters. Oct 2023 #30
"I never paid his bill!" viva la Oct 2023 #53
How do those bus tires taste, Sidney? hatrack Oct 2023 #7
Now we know why Trump doesn't pay his lawyers Shermann Oct 2023 #8
As the rats are trapped leaving the ship liberal N proud Oct 2023 #9
Don't let any of the rats off the ship or get away. There's been enough coddling of potential SWBTATTReg Oct 2023 #49
Drumph will not know anyone in 2 months Tribetime Oct 2023 #10
Next up... llmart Oct 2023 #24
But he did know her ArkansasDemocrat1 Oct 2023 #37
I'm guessing pissed off Jenna Ellis is the agingdem Oct 2023 #52
Because Motherfucker will be horizontal Aviation Pro Oct 2023 #39
Good one!!!!! MyOwnPeace Oct 2023 #50
!"Oh good! Then there will be none of that attorney-client privilege nonsense when she testifies against you!" riversedge Oct 2023 #11
. dalton99a Oct 2023 #14
Didn't he fire the "unfailry treated and abused" Gen Flynn? JohnnyRingo Oct 2023 #19
He's still fixated on Stollen fruit bread cakes. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2023 #21
It's delicious! JoseBalow Oct 2023 #44
herr fuerhair is projecting again.... Justice matters. Oct 2023 #41
"STOLLEN" he says? calimary Oct 2023 #70
Busted Skwishy Oct 2023 #15
Are we surprised? Jean Genie Oct 2023 #16
She may have receipts. JohnnyRingo Oct 2023 #17
As they sang in Hamilton...... MyOwnPeace Oct 2023 #51
Just because you didn't pay her Mblaze Oct 2023 #18
I can't wait to see onethatcares Oct 2023 #20
By now my bingo card looks like a Keno card! n/t ArkansasDemocrat1 Oct 2023 #38
Bwaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha! Blue Owl Oct 2023 #22
Someone can't find a publisher for their Backseat Driver Oct 2023 #23
Powell is just the one who served coffee at his insurrectionist meetings. Midnight Writer Oct 2023 #25
Same tired lies. So predictable. onecaliberal Oct 2023 #26
Orange Tantrum MOMFUDSKI Oct 2023 #27
That is why trDumpie was so eager,... magicarpet Oct 2023 #28
Unhinged yankee87 Oct 2023 #29
Maybe one day he'll deny ever being president IronLionZion Oct 2023 #32
How long before he 'never met this Donald Trump guy? Attilatheblond Oct 2023 #35
Lol! nt ecstatic Oct 2023 #67
Of course she wasn't. And neither was cheesy bro. yellowcanine Oct 2023 #33
A coffee girl, perhaps. republianmushroom Oct 2023 #34
The SHARPIE Mind just goes and goes bucolic_frolic Oct 2023 #36
One can only imagine that disclaiming the Cheeze will be worse Prairie Gates Oct 2023 #40
She was a Covfefe Girl, in a Covfefe world n/t ArkansasDemocrat1 Oct 2023 #42
As he disavows one person after another, leaving none to blame for the crimes usonian Oct 2023 #43
TFG bragging about his "truly great legal team" including Sidney Powell LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2023 #45
She was in charge of the kraken. tavernier Oct 2023 #46
I hear the Kraken may turn state's evidence! nt Shermann Oct 2023 #77
i laughed. barbtries Oct 2023 #47
Thar ee blows! Hugin Oct 2023 #54
It's like he wants to be convicted. cab67 Oct 2023 #56
Someone should do a song parody of Bille Jean thesquanderer Oct 2023 #57
This just in: Trump throws another person under the bus. sakabatou Oct 2023 #58
Bald ASS LIAR. Cha Oct 2023 #61
Sydney Not so "Wonderful" anymore. lol Cha Oct 2023 #62
... Major Nikon Oct 2023 #65
So what's going to happen with his "listened to my lawyers" defense? ecstatic Oct 2023 #66
LMFAO... raising2moredems Oct 2023 #68
He's probably saying she wasn't his personal attorney Renew Deal Oct 2023 #69
He can't help it, he is fucked. Emile Oct 2023 #71
Eric and Don Junior are Not my kids. sarcasmo Oct 2023 #75
What difference does it make? kentuck Oct 2023 #76

getagrip_already

(17,802 posts)
1. So no atty-client priv then, eh?
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 10:01 AM
Oct 2023

Yeah, it would have been pierced anyway, but now there is no need.

Btw, it is irrelevant to the charges if she was your attorney or diaper changer. You still conspired with her.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,578 posts)
2. The "I don't know this person" schtick?"
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 10:03 AM
Oct 2023

Typical response when the fire is getting close.

Sidney is going to spill the beans.

MissMillie

(39,552 posts)
72. Don't know about you, but...
Mon Oct 23, 2023, 07:23 AM
Oct 2023

When I'm holding a meeting in the Oval Office to discuss instituting martial law, I always invite someone I don't know to come in... just in case I need someone to seize voting machines.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,578 posts)
73. That " someone I don't know" KNOWS
Mon Oct 23, 2023, 07:28 AM
Oct 2023

Who else was in that meeting and where more bodies are buried.

Sidney Powell pleading GUILTY and accepting a deal means more of the focus is on PO1135809. More shoes are going to drop, including that of Jeffrey Clark and Mark Meadows.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,578 posts)
74. It appears that way.
Mon Oct 23, 2023, 07:33 AM
Oct 2023

If she was "not his personal attorney " but just an attorney in the room at the time, NO privilege can be called.

There needs to be records and proof of payment that Poqell was on the payroll. But yhen, we all know his M.O. about paying lawyers.

CrispyQ

(40,644 posts)
5. She would have been conflicted?
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 10:10 AM
Oct 2023

Is he trying to say she had a conflict of interest? What would that be? He's a babbling idiot & a third of the country would vote for him again.

thesquanderer

(12,898 posts)
55. Indeed. "Conflicted? I do not think that word means what you think it means."
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 01:52 PM
Oct 2023

Irritatingly, his wrong usage has started to get picked up elsewhere, including by people who should know better (i.e. talking heads on TV).

MyOwnPeace

(17,441 posts)
48. Interesting.......
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 12:49 PM
Oct 2023

I can't imagine the position "The Mayor" is in.
First, of course, is how far he has fallen - from "America's Mayor" to "American Mayors Funniest Videos" (sweating hair dye - groping in his own pants).
And now - serious 'legal' decisions: Continue to defend, lie, and cover-up for the guy that won't pay him, OR, give it up and start singing like the chicken hawk that he is.

Lots of fun stuff to be watching for in the days to come...........

hatrack

(64,198 posts)
7. How do those bus tires taste, Sidney?
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 10:20 AM
Oct 2023

Oh, no wait, I forgot- this is you being martyred by someone who will deny you three times, right? Just like Jesus, right?

Shermann

(9,003 posts)
8. Now we know why Trump doesn't pay his lawyers
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 10:20 AM
Oct 2023

Retainers or other proof of payment can be problematic later when you are trying to distance yourself.

liberal N proud

(61,165 posts)
9. As the rats are trapped leaving the ship
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 10:20 AM
Oct 2023

The sinking ship claims those rats are not my rats.

SWBTATTReg

(26,018 posts)
49. Don't let any of the rats off the ship or get away. There's been enough coddling of potential
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 12:49 PM
Oct 2023

witnesses thus far, and we're yet to see tRUMP really get the worse of it. And thus far, almost 600 or so, who were part of the mob that attacked Congress on 1/6, have been convicted or pled guilty to some sort of crime. I know (or I suspect) that the DOJ under Garland are still going after the those on the ground grunts, but still haven't touched any of the bigshots, Jordan, Trump, Gaetz, etc.

I will feel better when the wheels of justice is turned onto them, and one is finally put on trial, convicted, and punished. Just one, is that so hard to ask for? If the DOJ wants to ensure Americans that Justice is equally applied to all, then they (DOJ) need to really start greasing up the wheels and go after these upper-level echelons that participated in the events of 1/6. There were a substantial number of GOP thugs that refused to sanction Pres. Biden's win, this right here, is a good starting point. We already know that tRUMP is under the gun, but I'm looking for more of the 'middle management' that participated too.

agingdem

(8,764 posts)
52. I'm guessing pissed off Jenna Ellis is the
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 12:56 PM
Oct 2023

Last edited Sun Oct 22, 2023, 01:30 PM - Edit history (1)

next co-conspirator domino to fall, and if I'm allowed another guess, John Eastman will also plead out sooner than later...Rudy will be the last one to flip, his legal bills are piling up and Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss are standing by...

as for Ivanka not happy about the prospect of facing Daddy on the witness stand (NY fraud trial)...she can rest assured Daddy would still date her regardless of her testimony

riversedge

(79,234 posts)
11. !"Oh good! Then there will be none of that attorney-client privilege nonsense when she testifies against you!"
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 10:27 AM
Oct 2023

JohnnyRingo

(20,457 posts)
19. Didn't he fire the "unfailry treated and abused" Gen Flynn?
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 10:44 AM
Oct 2023

I'll bet that pissed himself off.

Justice matters.

(9,312 posts)
41. herr fuerhair is projecting again....
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 12:10 PM
Oct 2023

"Fascist government" is like WRONG "opinions" (i.g. THOUGTHs without ANY evidence to back them up) are NOT FACTS.

Jean Genie

(534 posts)
16. Are we surprised?
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 10:40 AM
Oct 2023

Oh dear! I hope Ms Powell was wearing her armor underwear when Donald threw her under the bus!

JohnnyRingo

(20,457 posts)
17. She may have receipts.
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 10:41 AM
Oct 2023

If not, she was still a confidant who knows the inner workings of the attempted coup.

onethatcares

(16,961 posts)
20. I can't wait to see
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 10:56 AM
Oct 2023

the look on don jrs' and erics' faces when he says, "I never knew them, mere cofeffee fetchers in the scheme of things.

Ya'll know it's coming. Get it on your bingo card soon..

Backseat Driver

(4,671 posts)
23. Someone can't find a publisher for their
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 11:09 AM
Oct 2023

ghost-written book? Just in case she now finds a Magat-friendly one, he wants a cut of the proceeds?

magicarpet

(18,456 posts)
28. That is why trDumpie was so eager,...
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 11:27 AM
Oct 2023

.... to appoint Sidney Powell as a Special Counsel to investigate all the fraud in the rigged 2020 election that Biden supposedly won.

This way Sidney could act as an inside but private lawyer for trDump,... but the US Taxpayer could pick up the entire tab.

Standard modus operandi of the Orange Menace,... order the cake and eat it too. Don't forget the two generous scoops of ice cream.

yankee87

(2,747 posts)
29. Unhinged
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 11:28 AM
Oct 2023

45 is going to be in a rubber room soon claiming he's the queen of England. The worst part is he has a chance to win again.


Vote Blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Attilatheblond

(8,228 posts)
35. How long before he 'never met this Donald Trump guy?
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 11:57 AM
Oct 2023

As his sanity leaves the building, it's only a matter of time.

bucolic_frolic

(53,899 posts)
36. The SHARPIE Mind just goes and goes
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 AM
Oct 2023

If you can do it to the weather, why not rewrite history and facts with the same strokes?

Prairie Gates

(7,147 posts)
40. One can only imagine that disclaiming the Cheeze will be worse
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 12:10 PM
Oct 2023

I don't try to "interpret" Trump's blather but the heavy inclusion of Flynn content here is at least interesting. He seems to be dangling pardons for something in his usual indirect way. Not the state charges, so what's that about?

usonian

(23,400 posts)
43. As he disavows one person after another, leaving none to blame for the crimes
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 12:11 PM
Oct 2023

BUT HIMSELF.

Smart strategy.

tavernier

(14,250 posts)
46. She was in charge of the kraken.
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 12:43 PM
Oct 2023

And serving covfefe. It’s a highly skilled legal specialty.

Hugin

(37,352 posts)
54. Thar ee blows!
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 01:06 PM
Oct 2023


I was almost out of popcorn.

What’s the story this time? He only saw her on the street once as he rode by in a limo?

I guess any claims of “attorney client privilege” are now shit. Which is it, Glute?

ecstatic

(35,004 posts)
66. So what's going to happen with his "listened to my lawyers" defense?
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 09:22 PM
Oct 2023

All of his attorneys have either thrown him under the bus or pleaded guilty.

raising2moredems

(748 posts)
68. LMFAO...
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 09:43 PM
Oct 2023

Better half and I both predicted this would be his response once she plead guilty. Poor donny boy (and I do mean boy) - can't remember what he's said (even five minutes prior) nor his lies straight.

Renew Deal

(84,661 posts)
69. He's probably saying she wasn't his personal attorney
Sun Oct 22, 2023, 11:18 PM
Oct 2023

And knowing him, he might have hired her without an agreement.

kentuck

(115,069 posts)
76. What difference does it make?
Mon Oct 23, 2023, 08:13 AM
Oct 2023

Whether or not she was his "attorney", if she was part and instrumental in the conspiracy?

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