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Hugo Lowell in Washington

Trump’s ex-lawyer Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election case

Sidney Powell speaks at a rally in Alpharetta, Georgia, in December 2020.
Sidney Powell speaks at a rally in Alpharetta, Georgia, in December 2020. Photograph: Nathan Posner/Rex/Shutterstock

Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, charged alongside the former president for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia, has pleaded guilty as part of a cooperation agreement with prosecutors just days before her trial was scheduled to start.

The conversion of Powell into a cooperating witness marks a major victory for the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, given Powell’s involvement in some of Trump’s most brazen schemes to reverse Trump’s election defeat – which she could now testify about.

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