Sidney Powell, 68, a vocal Trump supporter who pushed outlandish conspiracy theories about foreign manipulation of voting machines, was indicted in August along with the former president and 17 others.In a surprise deal reached just days before her trial was scheduled to begin in Atlanta, Georgia, Powell entered into a plea agreement with Fulton County prosecutors.
“You’re to testify truthfully against any and all codefendants in this matter at any upcoming proceedings,” McAfee said.Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond, said Powell’s guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with prosecutors could have “critical implications for Trump.” Following the November 2020 presidential election, Powell peddled preposterous theories about voting machine software allegedly designed in Venezuela under the late Hugo Chavez that “flipped” Trump votes to Biden votes.According to the Georgia indictment, Trump met with Powell, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others at the White House on December 18, 2020, several weeks before the end of his term, and discussed “strategies and theories intended to influence the outcome” of the election.
Jury selection had been scheduled to begin on Monday in a joint trial of Powell and another codefendant, Kenneth Chesebro. Powell is also being sued for defamation in separate cases by two voting machine companies, Dominion and Smartmatic.
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