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Sidney Powell argues in new court filing that no reasonable people would believe her election fraud claims
edition.cnn.com ^ | March 23, 2021 | Katelyn Polantz

Posted on 03/22/2021 9:04:32 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Right-wing lawyer Sidney Powell is claiming in a new court filing that reasonable people wouldn't have believed as fact her assertions of fraud after the 2020 presidential election.

The election infrastructure company Dominion Voting Systems sued Powell for defamation after she pushed lawsuits and made appearances in conservative media on behalf of then-President Donald Trump to sow doubt about the 2020 election results. Dominion claims that Powell knew her election fraud accusations were false and hurtful to the company.

In a new court filing, Powell's attorneys write that she was sharing her "opinion" and that the public could reach "their own conclusions" about whether votes were changed by election machines.

"Given the highly charged and political context of the statements, it is clear that Powell was describing the facts on which she based the lawsuits she filed in support of President Trump," Powell's defense lawyers wrote in a court filing on Monday.

"Indeed, Plaintiffs themselves characterize the statements at issue as 'wild accusations' and 'outlandish claims.' They are repeatedly labelled 'inherently improbable' and even 'impossible.' Such characterizations of the allegedly defamatory statements further support Defendants' position that reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process."

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: believeanythingcrowd; butbutkraken; cnnfakenews; dominion; fakenews; likeqanon; powell; qhardesthit; reasonablepeople; sidneypowell
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To: chiller

XiNN and its fellow lying newspuppets are counting on retarded “news” consumers to lap this up like a dog on a pile of vomit.


41 posted on 03/22/2021 9:50:17 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: BobL

Who else was there fighting for the truth in this election? The RINO establishment?

You are a bunch of Judas’s.


42 posted on 03/22/2021 9:50:56 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Trump has horrible judgment. Ommarosa, Cohen, Stone, Bannon...


43 posted on 03/22/2021 9:52:57 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This CNN bastardization of the story is completely at odds with the description I read elsewhere today. My understanding was that the question before the court was whether a reasonable person could ever, on their own, believe that the Dominion machines could have been manipulated, and that Dominion was arguing that no reasonable person could ever believe that (presumably to make the argument that only Sidney Powell’s magical powers of persuasion could ever make someone doubt the accuracy of voting machines). The CNN story is incomprehensible gibberish. It makes no sense.


44 posted on 03/22/2021 9:55:36 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: noiseman
The CNN story is incomprehensible gibberish. It makes no sense.

Crafted to accomplish that.

45 posted on 03/22/2021 10:03:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (Will the Younger Dryas Impact you? )
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The Dominion suit is ALL FOR SHOW..

Sidney Powell's claims were ALL FOR SHOW..

They're both on the same team and probably ALL carry CIA badges. Has Agent Eric Coomer come out of hiding yet?

46 posted on 03/22/2021 10:16:28 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: noiseman

If you are expecting the more smug and sanctimonious members of FR to read the article in order to reach a thoughtful conclusion, you’re going to be sorely disappointed.


47 posted on 03/22/2021 10:16:44 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Berlin_Freeper

She destroyed her case by making outlandish claims.


48 posted on 03/22/2021 10:23:17 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

But, but I trusted the plan.


49 posted on 03/22/2021 10:23:45 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Capitol surrounded by troops vetted to shoot us. Never again ask why the Jews walked into the cars.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I think Sidney is dumb like a fox.


50 posted on 03/22/2021 10:24:09 PM PDT by teletech (you)
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We need to hear Sidney first.


51 posted on 03/22/2021 10:24:53 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Salvavida
"That is how you get disbarred."

Please read the fifth paragraph of the story. It is an elegant trap against the plaintiff.

52 posted on 03/22/2021 10:49:40 PM PDT by fini
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To: romanesq

Dominion is definitely involved in vote fraud regardless of whatever Powell has said. I feel sad for anyone who thinks otherwise.

For instance we know for a fact that Dominion machines rejected more than half the ballots in many democrat areas. And some un-monitored democrat got to just pick and choose how to vote those ballots. How could anyone believe that was not by design.

Anyone who stands up for Dominion or any of these electronic voting systems- Stands for vote fraud. Electronic voting should be outlawed. Anyone who does not think so is more than a fool. They lack even the most basic ability to reason. And this country will be done in by their stupidity.


53 posted on 03/22/2021 11:00:02 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Powell also claims in court that her statements about the 2020 election were a “matter of public concern” about a publicly known company, Dominion, and thus protected speech.

Her attorneys also claim she had a right to make accusations because she was acting as an attorney for the Trump campaign, even during her right-wing TV appearances. As a result, Powell is asking a judge in Washington, DC, to dismiss the case, or to allow it to be moved to the federal court in Texas.


54 posted on 03/22/2021 11:13:32 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
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To: kiryandil

It used to be truth was a virtue in Freeland. I actually believed that we were different as opposed to scanning a headline, believing fake news and being hoodwinked by propaganda let alone destroying our own no matter how imperfect he/she is (Powell and Wood)....Could team Trump have done better? Did it make it impossible that no remedy of our civil society and republic was of any help? America is dying with a whimper but we criticize the only voices besides Trump who vocalize anything outside of the echo chamber of our glorious website.


55 posted on 03/23/2021 12:22:31 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover
Trump, like Toto in The Wizard Of Oz, has revealed all.
56 posted on 03/23/2021 12:47:11 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Perseverando
" no one would believe it but" ....AHA ! gotcha !!! once you say "no one will believe it" , weel that is PROOF it never happened !!!!!

and anyone who thinks "The Armed Insurrection" was staged acting, well they are just insane whacko conspiracy nuts.

and anyone who thinks the "Pandemic" was a pre-planned extortion racket and the masks are useless is just an Insane wacko right wing conspiracy nut

and anyone who thinks there was no Russian Collusion by Trump is just an insane wacko conspiracy nut

and anyone who thinks the leftists targeted key counties and stuffed vote counting machines with illegitimate ballots is just...well a wacko conspiracy nutcase

and on and on and on

no one has ever lies to us, everytime I turn on the news, its all straight up facts , it's all in my imagination that they are lying

57 posted on 03/23/2021 12:50:04 AM PDT by KTM rider (Expatriated at home by no choice of my own)
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To: kiryandil

If “no one” could believe it, it was never investigated, and CNN didn’t report it, it never happened !


58 posted on 03/23/2021 12:55:16 AM PDT by KTM rider (Expatriated at home by no choice of my own)
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To: Revel

👍


59 posted on 03/23/2021 1:09:03 AM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: Salvavida

Powell’s analysis is well-founded in that courts allow large claims to be made in initial filings, relying on the judicial process to sort out their truth or falsity. Indeed, claims in lawsuits are traditionally treated as priviliged and exempt from scrutiny under libel laws.


60 posted on 03/23/2021 1:11:34 AM PDT by Rockingham
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