Former neighbors recall power-seeking personality of possible Trump co-conspirator Sidney

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS/TND) — Sidney Powell, one of the attorneys that spearheaded the efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, is back in the headlines this week as she is thought to be one of the un-named co-conspirators in the latest indictment brought against former President Donald Trump.

In Asheville, N.C., where Powell maintained two homes for many years, and in her new home of Dallas, Texas, the news of her possible criminal involvement in a "conspiracy to defraud the United States" does not surprise many. Those who knew her say she craved power and the spotlight.

If it is revealed she is the third co-conspirator I don’t think it will be surprising to many people," Robert Downen, a reporter for The Texas Tribune who has been following Powell's story, told WLOS.

Downen notes that Powell was a central figure in the overall push by Trump and his team of "crackpot lawyers" – so described by Vice President Mike Pence – to try and find a away to overturn President Joe Biden's victory in November 2020.

Sidney Powell has been a front and center character in this whole drama," he said. "She was one of the people who provided a key source to Fox News for all their voter fraud conspiracy claims.

Those claims dragged Fox into a $1.6 billion lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems which the network settled in April for $787.5 million.

During the course of the investigations that were part of the suit, communications between Fox primetime hosts like Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham showed they were concerned about the things Powell was saying on air.

Sidney Powell is a bit nuts," Ingraham wrote in a text thread with Carlson and Hannity, the latter of whom said in a separate deposition for the case "[T]hat whole narrative that Sidney was pushing, I did not believe it for one second.

In another text exchange from November 2020, Carlson acknowledged Powell – who he would also call a c*** in another thread – was spreading false statements on his air: "Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It’s insane."

That time in the spotlight may come back to haunt her former employer, Trump, if she turns witness against him during the case.

Christopher Cooper, a distinguished professor and director of the Public Policy Institute at Western Carolina University, points out that the indictment argues that Powell was one of the figures who "peddled false conspiracy theories" to Trump.

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