{"id":43675,"date":"2020-12-26T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=43675"},"modified":"2020-12-26T10:01:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T14:01:42","slug":"scgate-trumps-closest-aides-preventing-powells-appointment-as-special-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=43675","title":{"rendered":"SCgate: Trump&#8217;s Closest Aides Preventing Powell&#8217;s Appointment as Special Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>BREAKING: Trump Reportedly Offered Attorney Sidney Powell Special Counsel Position But Now His Closest Aides Are Blocking Her from President<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Jim Hoft<br \/>\nGateway Pundit<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Attorney Sidney Powell told The Zenger News that she was offered verbally the position of special counsel by President Trump at the Friday night meeting in the Oval Office.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sidney then added that President Trump\u2019s closest advisors are blocking her from seeing the president or presenting him with paperwork to make it official!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/powell-says-white-house-aides-wont-let-her-help-trump\/ar-BB1cdCgk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSN <\/a>reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell said Thursday that the president\u2019s aides are preventing her from being in contact with President Trump and coordinating his efforts to overturn election results in battleground states around the country.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Zenger News, Powell said she had heard only radio silence from the White House following her meeting with the president in the Oval Office on Friday, seemingly confirming that <strong>she was unable to speak to Trump when she visited the White House on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been blocked from speaking to or communicating with the president since I left the Oval Office on Friday night,\u201d Powell told Zenger\u2019s David Martsoko, \u201cby apparently everyone around him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Powell also said she was verbally offered the position of \u201cspecial counsel\u201d by Trump during Friday\u2019s meeting, but has been unable to present him with paperwork to make it official.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/sidney-powell-wants-fight-donald-trump-his-aides-wont-let-her-she-says-1557267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsweek<\/a> added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Saturday morning, Powell says, the president\u2019s most senior aides had declined to give her a Secret Service-issued pass to come and go from the West Wing. \u201cI\u2019ve been blocked from speaking to or communicating with the president since I left the Oval Office on Friday night,\u201d she says, \u201cby apparently everyone around him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>This is shocking news.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SidneyPowell1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SidneyPowell1<\/a> told Zenger News that White House aides are preventing her from being in contact w\/ President Donald Trump &amp; are blocking her efforts to assume a formal coordinating role in pursuing contest-of-election challenges on the president\u2019s behalf.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8LzrX8wNSU\">https:\/\/t.co\/8LzrX8wNSU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EpochTimes\/status\/1342450861625192450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/12\/breaking-trump-reportedly-offered-attorney-sidney-powell-special-counsel-position-now-closest-aides-blocking-president\/\">https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/12\/breaking-trump-reportedly-offered-attorney-sidney-powell-special-counsel-position-now-closest-aides-blocking-president\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING: Trump Reportedly Offered Attorney Sidney Powell Special Counsel Position But Now His Closest Aides Are Blocking Her from President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}