President Donald Trump is considering appointing attorney Sidney Powell as special counsel to investigate allegations of voter fraud.
Powell, who was fired from the Republican’s legal team a few weeks ago for filing allegations of conspiracy fraud that are becoming more real every day, met with Trump on Friday in the Oval Office, ABC News reported.
The meeting was attended by former national security adviser and recently pardoned by the president, Michael Flynn, who has urged Trump to apply drastic measures to stay for 4 more years in the White House, according to ABC.
Trump said Saturday night that media reports that he would apply «Martial Law» to stay in office were «Fake News. Just more malicious reporting!»
The AP agency reports that it has not been confirmed whether Trump will appoint Powell as a special prosecutor since it is the Justice Department that appoints the prosecutors.
Since the main US media projected the victory of candidate Joe Biden, the Republican has denounced fraud in the elections that were held on November 3 in the American nation.
Trump’s legal team has filed multiple lawsuits requesting the annulment of the elections in the crucial states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin.
On December 12, the Supreme Court rejected an initial request from Texas, which was later joined by another 20 states, requesting to revoke the results in the 4 states that gave Biden the victory and that in 2016 voted for Trump.
In the lawsuit, Texas Attorney Ken Paxton accused election officials in all four states of failing to protect vote-by-mail from fraud, thus lowering «the weight of votes cast in states that legally abide by the established electoral structure. in the Constitution ”.
According to the count, Biden defeated President Donald Trump by more than 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania, a state the president won in 2016. Most of the mail-in votes were sent by Democrats.
«If the Supreme Court does not act, I think the president should declare a certain extent of martial law, and he should suspend a stay at the electoral college,» Georgia attorney L. Lin Wood told NewsMax.
According to the AP, President Trump obtained 232 electoral votes, while Joe Biden obtained 306 of the 270 required to reach the White House. The Democrat was confirmed this week by the Electoral College as president-elect despite allegations of fraud from Republicans.
If the results are not reversed, on January 20 Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States in Washington DC.
America24news, with information from NewsMax, AP and ABC news