The Kraken Has Been Released–From Trump’s Legal Team, That Is

Rudy Giuliani went on Sean Spicer’s Newsmax show last week to blame everyone but Donald Trump for losing the 2020 Presidential election, and specifically targeted his co-counsel, Sidney Powell, for mishandling the Trump legal team’s many lawsuits to try to overturn the election results. Just one day after making those comments, the woman who once promised to “unleash the Kraken” of lawsuits to fight Trump’s election loss now says she’s barred from the White House.

Powell told Fox News that she has been “blocked by White House counsel and others from seeing or speaking to the President” after raising “even more evidence of foreign interference from Iran and China.” Powell had reportedly been seen at the White House as recently as last Friday, where she was part of a reportedly chaotic meeting which also included Giuliani, newly pardoned Gen. Michael Flynn, chief of staff Mark Meadows, and White House counsel Pat Cipollone.

Trump had suggested naming Powell special counsel for election fraud. Meadows and Cipollone, who have allegedly grown tired of Powell’s unhinged conspiracy theories, vehemently opposed the idea, stating that Powell had “no constitutional authority for what was being discussed.”

"She told The Post that, by its nature, her covert work could not be independently verified. 'People like me don’t exist,' she said."

Ah, well, then.https://t.co/YPNBOl1jmS

— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) December 24, 2020

Though she’s supposedly out of favor with the Trump campaign, Powell still remains a popular figure within the far-right QAnon conspiracy group, along with influential figures in the movement like Flynn and attorney Lin Wood, both of whom have called for Trump to declare martial law. She has been featured on popular QAnon YouTube shows as far back as November 2019 and has been known to use QAnon slogans and hashtags in her social media posts.