Sidney Powell locked out of Twitter following Trump campaign rebuke: Sidney Powell, the lawyer for previous Trump Administration official Gen. Michael Flynn, was locked out of Twitter for 12-hours. The short-term suspension came following the Trump Administration's rebuke that Powell is part of the Trump legal team in any official capacity. Unverified reports indicate Powell's suspension may have been the result of a tweet that connected a county elections administrator, who was educated in Venezuela, with a vote-counting firm that was under investigation for alleged interference in a Filipino election.