Former federal prosecutor and Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell is currently being targeted by the Department of Justice, with federal prosecutors hitting her fundraising organizations with a subpoena demanding financial records.
Fox News reported that it has just been confirmed that the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia issued a subpoena back in September demanding that Powell’s various fundraising groups hand over communications as well as other documents.
One of the organizations that have been subpoenaed is Defending the Republic, which claims 501(c) 4 nonprofit status. When Powell founded the group to collect donations after claiming that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, the site claimed that “over $500,000 must be raised in the next twenty-four hours for these suits to be filed. Millions more will need to be raised to ensure victory.”
Prosecutors claim in a filing earlier this year that Powell “treated the entity’s funds as her personal funds, redirecting them to the law firm she controls and dominates and raiding them to pay for her personal legal defense,”
Last year, Powell said that the group was “working to help defend all these cases and to defend me now that I’m under a massive attack from the attorney general of Michigan and the city of Detroit and everything else,”
Howard Kleinhendler, a lawyer representing Defending the Republic, told The Washington Post that the organization is not going to back down.
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“We have always known the more effective we are, the more the false attacks will intensify. Defending the Republic has and will continue to fight for #WeThePeople who make this country work,” Kleinhendler said. “Defending the Republic and the PAC will not be diverted from their missions by lies, innuendo and other distractions. We believe in the law, the Rule of Law, and we intend to follow it and work to reinstate and preserve it.”
The Gateway Pundit reported that Powell issued the following response to the subpoenas:
We have always known the more effective we are, the more the false attacks will intensify. Defending the Republic has and will continue to fight for #WeThePeople who make this country work. Defending the Republic and the PAC will not be diverted from their missions by lies, innuendo and other distractions. We believe in the law, the Rule of Law, and we intend to follow it and work to reinstate and preserve it. —
On behalf of DefendingTheRepublic.org
Powell has become one of the strongest voices in trying to prove that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Unfortunately, that’s why it comes as no surprise that Joe Biden’s Department of Justice continues to target her and her organizations.
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