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Sidney Powell Flushes Her 'Full Of Sh*t' Defense

Shutting up is free!

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Kraken lawyer Sidney Powell has said a lot of crazy shit. From alleging that the presidential election was rigged by an evil cabal of Venezuelan Iranian Marxists, to insisting that she needed to shield the identity of the rando internet conspiracy theorists with major credibility problems she was trying to pass off as super-secret spy types for “safety,” Powell has refused to be silenced. Not by the woke mob, and not by common sense.

So it comes as no surprise that the billion dollar defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems hasn’t slowed her down a bit.

In a motion to dismiss filed in March, Powell’s lawyers labored valiantly to paint her claims about the company as protected expressions of opinion.

“[R]easonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process,” they insisted. Which is not a terrible argument, even if it subjected their client to widespread ridicule for attempting an “I’m Full of Shit” defense. Sure it was immediately invoked by state plaintiffs as proof that Powell knew the multiple tentacles of her squid lawsuits were rotten from the get go. But that’s an issue of a few thousand dollars in legal fees, not a ten-figure defamation claim.

Powell could not leave well enough alone, though, so she headed for conservative pardon aficionado Dinesh D’Souza’s podcast to defend herself.

“Are you backtracking from what you said before?” D’Souza asked

“Oh no, I am not backtracking a bit,” she replied. “What they are misquoting from and taking out of context is the statement from a new decision out of the D.C. Circuit that is binding in my case.”

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(The what now? How is a motion to dismiss a “new decision out of the D.C. Circuit?”)

But Powell wasn’t done.

D’SOUZA:  So you’re not taking any of it back. You’re not taking refuge in the distinction between fact and opinion. It seems to me what you’re saying is, “Yes, I have the opinion that there was widespread fraud, but this is not an opinion free floating in the ether. It’s an opinion anchored in a whole bunch of testimonies, affidavits, all types of evidence, statistical evidence, and so on. It’s opinion that is rooted in fact.

POWELL:  I’m not backing up one inch. Everything I said about Dominion, I had a factual basis for. Any reasonable person looking at the evidence I’ve seen would have to come to the same conclusion. And I would encourage people to go to my website sidneypowell.com and look at that evidence themselves. We uploaded it, all the pleadings to the website and people can read it themselves, or at defendingtherepublic.org. … We have done the math and more math is coming. … They not only ran an algorithm in the machine to shave votes, which their own manual admits they can do, so they weighted Biden votes at say 1.26 and they weighted Trump votes at .74. So a Trump vote only counted ¾ and a Biden vote counted 1 ¼. That ran standard across the country as best we can tell from the evidence we’re collecting. And then there was specific flipping of votes in any number of key states and cities. In fact, if you think about it, they only really had to take over six key cities, all of which happen to be Democratic strongholds, to flip this election for Biden. And we’re gathering more evidence every day of how the votes were flipped and where and how many.

After Thomas Clare and his associates quit laughing, they got busy on their opposition to Powell’s motion to dismiss. And they included this helpful link to the video in case Judge Carl Nichols isn’t familiar with the Rumble platform.

“In sum, after representing to this Court that ‘no reasonable person would conclude that [her] statements were truly statements of fact,'” they wrote, “Powell went on television the following week to tell viewers ‘there was, in fact, widespread fraud through this election.'”

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And if that wasn’t clear enough, they point out that Powell didn’t express a protected opinion as to whether Dominion has a face only a mother could love, she accused it of committing actual crimes in fact.

Powell’s statements are provably false. She either has a video of Dominion’s founder admitting that he can change a million votes or she does not (she does not). Dominion was either created in Venezuela to rig elections or it was not (it was not). Dominion either rigged the 2020 election by weighting, flipping, switching, and trashing votes or it did not (it did not). Dominion either bribed officials or it did not (it did not). Powell’s own motion confirms that her statements are susceptible of being proven false by disputing that they are false.

Well, when you put it like that …

U.S. Dominion, Inc. v. Powell [Docket via Court Listener]

Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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