Sidney Powell says Trump ‘can simply be reinstated’

Published May 30, 2021 12:00am ET



Attorney Sidney Powell, who is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for spreading allegedly defamatory claims about the 2020 election, insisted on Saturday former President Donald Trump could “simply be reinstated” as president and fill the rest of President Joe Biden’s term.

Powell’s remarks were made at a right-wing conference in Dallas on Saturday called the “For God & Country Patriot Roundup,” which also featured retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser who has echoed the former president’s claims of widespread voter fraud in the November election, as a guest speaker.

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