Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell Raised Millions Off False ‘Election Fraud’ Claims
Sidney Powell, the discredited “Kraken” lawyer who has helped spearhead former President Donald Trump‘s campaign to have the 2020 election overturned, raised millions of dollars off of the “Big Lie” that was funneled into her new non-profit, Defending the Republic. “The group’s financial statement, publicly filed last month in Florida, shows the organization raised $14.9 million between Dec. 1, 2020, and July 31. Of that, it spent about $5.6 million, mostly on legal fees and unspecified awards and grants. It gave $550,000 to help fund the Republican-commissioned ballot review in Arizona, accor...