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Dallas attorney Sidney Powell appears to be one of six unnamed co-conspirators which the Justice Department accused Tuesday of playing key roles in former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

Though she is not named in the four-count indictment filed against Trump, the Justice Department makes numerous references to a “co-conspirator 3” whose description matches Powell, a prominent election fraud conspiracy theorist whose role in the lead-up to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has been well documented.

The Justice Department’s 45-page indictment described “co-conspirator 3” as an attorney who filed a lawsuit against the governor of Georgia alleging “massive election fraud” on Nov. 25, 2020 — the same day that Powell filed a lawsuit in Georgia alleging voter fraud. That lawsuit, the indictment said, was dismissed on Dec. 7 — the same day that Powell’s lawsuit was dismissed.

The indictment also alleged that Trump continued to publicly promote co-conspirator 3’s election fraud claims despite privately calling them “crazy,” a comment that Rolling Stone previously reported was made regarding Powell’s false claims about foreign intervention to secretly rig the election and manipulate voting machines to help President Joe Biden.

The Justice Department alleged that and other comments by Trump show that he knew...

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