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Sidney Powell, the attorney who says she is fighting to have the results of the 2020 presidential election changed, just got some bad news from President Donald Trump.

She has been cut off from the president and told she will not be serving as special counsel on election fraud matters.

The president had discussed appointing her as special counsel to investigate alleged election fraud but then decided that “giving her such a formal portfolio for pursuing her conspiracy theories around voter irregularities and fraud,” was not a wise idea.

Rudy Giuliani, the president’s head attorney and former mayor of New York City was asked if Powell had been given the news to which he replied, “Yes,” and that “she is no longer part of [our] team. She is on her own.”

Powell then issued a statement of her own to Fox News in which she said, “I have been blocked by White House counsel and others from seeing or speaking to the President since I raised the public formal findings and even more evidence of foreign interference from Iran and China.”

“Let me say definitely, Sidney Powell was not part of our legal team,” Giuliani said this week. “She hasn’t been for five weeks. She is not a special counsel for the president; she does not speak for the president, nor does she speak for the administration. She speaks for herself.”

He said that “whatever she is talking about, it’s her own opinions. … I’m not responsible for them, the president isn’t, nor is anybody else on our legal team.”

But the president still does want a special counsel and believes one is necessary, he said in a tweet on Wednesday.

"I disagree with anyone that thinks a strong, fast, and fair Special Counsel is not needed, IMMEDIATELY. This was the most corrupt election in the history of our Country, and it must be closely examined!" he said.

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