The second-most infamous news conference of Donald Trump’s failed effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election occurred at the Republican National Committee offices in Washington on Nov. 19 of last year.
“We’re representing President Trump, and we’re representing the Trump campaign,” former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said to kick things off. “When I finish, Sidney Powell and then Jenna Ellis will follow me. And we will present in brief the evidence that we’ve collected over the last, I guess it is two weeks.”
“There are a lot more lawyers working on this,” he added, “but, I guess, we’re the senior lawyers.” Ellis, who did in fact speak later, described the crew as “an elite strike force team that is working on behalf of the president and the campaign to make sure that our Constitution is protected.”
“I look forward to Mayor Giuliani spearheading the legal effort to defend OUR RIGHT to FREE and FAIR ELECTIONS!” he wrote. “Rudy Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, a truly great team, added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives!”
But, at the news conference at the RNC, Powell did Trump few favors. Her section of the presentation was centered on unhinged claims that the 2020 election was stolen by an international alliance of actors who subverted voting machines to flip votes to Joe Biden. At one point, someone in the crowd asked Powell if bonkers claims circulating in fringe right-wing media about servers being...
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