'Threats and harassments': Trump lawyers who meddled in 2020 election face lasting consequences

27 May

Mugshots for Trump attorneys Scott Hall, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis (Image: Fulton County Sheriff's Office)

President Donald Trump may have been able to avoid accountability for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election by being elected last November, but many of his attorneys weren't as lucky.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday that many of Trump's attorneys have faced significant consequences for their actions on behalf of their client that include jail time, fines and having their law licenses suspended. And some of them remain criminal defendants in ongoing cases in several states.

One attorney who represented Trump — William McCall Calhoun of Americus, Georgia — ended up serving time behind bars for his participation in the January 6, 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol building. Even though was released from federal custody in July of 2024 and pardoned by Trump in January of this year, Calhoun still remains without his law license after being convicted of felonies. Despite losing his freedom and being subjected to what he called "widespread media defamation, death threats and harassments," he remains committed to winning back his law license, insisting he was singled out unfairly for his role in the January 6 insurrection because he was an attorney.

Texas-based attorney Sidney Powell also tried to help Trump overturn 2020 election results in Georgia. After she was included in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' RICO indictment, Powell signed a plea agreement in which she paid several thousand dollars in fines and restitution and penned an apology letter to Georgia voters. However, she said in an October 2023 deposition that she still believed the 2020 election had been unjustly stolen from Trump.

Forrmer New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani also faced significant consequences from his time as Trump's personal attorney in 2020. In addition to being found liable for defamation and ordered to pay more than $148 million to two Georgia poll workers he falsely accused of election fraud, Giuliani is being tried on felony charges in Arizona — and was even served with the charging documents in front of guests at his 80th birthday party.

Lin Wood, who was an Atlanta-based attorney who represented high-profile clients in defamation cases until he gave up his law license in 2023, is also facing significant financial consequences from his 2020 work. The Journal-Constitution reported he owes $16 million in jury verdicts and court orders to three of his former law partners. However, he maintains that despite the impact on his personal life, his support for Trump hasn't changed.

“At all times since 2017, I have been an unwavering public supporter of President Trump and his efforts to save America,” Wood told the paper. “I remain an unwavering supporter of President Trump to this very day.”

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