Trump Co-Defendant Powell Pleads Guilty
The Spin
Anti-Trump narrative
This is bad news for Trump and his co-defendants. Very few did more to promote the former president’s false theories about fraud in the 2020 election, and yet Powell has now turned on him. She frequently visited the White House and had more interactions with the higher-ups of the Trump administration than any other co-defendant, so she must know damaging information that's in the public's interest.
Pro-Trump narrative
Everyone knows Powell, one of the biggest spreaders of 2020 election conspiracy theories, is detached from reality. Her lies were too much for Trump to believe and he fired her. So now that she’s agreed to testify in return for a lenient sentence, her far-fetched theories will be incredible and ungrounded. Accordingly, the former president has little to fear from any potential outlandish allegations.
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