Powell has reportedly agreed to testify against other defendants. Given the wild and outlandish conspiracy theories Powell promoted about how the election was supposedly stolen from Trump—earning her a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems—it’s not clear how credible a witness Powell will be. As of Friday morning, the pinned Tweet in her X account still suggested that election fraud occurred in Fulton County in 2020.
Just days before the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters, Powell told religious-right activists that Trump had “national emergency powers” that he could use to delay the inauguration.
When Powell was indicted in August, Right Wing Watch noted:
This isn’t Powell’s first brush with accountability for her work to overturn the 2020 election. She was sanctioned by a federal judge for making deceptive claims and undermining faith in democracy. (Just this month, the Sixth Circuit Court denied her request to reconsider an earlier decision upholding most of the sanctions imposed on Powell and fellow attorney Lin Wood.) Powell has also been sued by Dominion Voting Systems.