Posted on 03/23/2021 8:16:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Many who opposed President Trump or claims of massive, widespread voter fraud are laughing today. Many Trump supporters are feeling betrayed. These strong feelings stem from a statement in a motion filed by Sidney Powell’s attorneys asking the case made against her by Dominion Voting Systems be dropped. Yet in the same sentence, the true intent of the statement is clear. Nobody should be laughing and nobody should feel betrayed.
The statement that’s getting latched onto by people on social media states, “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact,” referencing Powell’s claims that Dominion Voting Systems was being run in part by the Venezuelan government and participated in stealing the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden by switching votes. In isolation, this statement seems to indicate Powell was essentially trying to fool everyone with her accusations. This isn’t the case.
The full context of her attorney’s statement reveals the truth [emphasis mine]:
Reasonable people understand that the “language of the political arena, like the language used in labor disputes … is often vituperative, abusive and inexact.” Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705, 708 (1969). It is likewise a “well recognized principle that political statements are inherently prone to exaggeration and hyperbole.” Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette, Inc. v. Am. Coal. of Life Activists, 244 F.3d 1007, 1009 (9th Cir. 2001). 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. Indeed, Plaintiffs themselves characterize the statements at issue as “wild accusations” and “outlandish claims.” Id. at ¶¶ 2, 60, 97, 111. They are repeatedly labelled “inherently improbable” and even “impossible.” Id. at ¶¶ 110, 111, 114, 116 and 185. 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.
Furthermore, Sidney Powell disclosed the facts upon which her conclusions were based.
This is not backtracking. This is not an admission that she didn’t really believe her own accusations against Dominion Voting Systems, nor does it indicate she was lying to everyone about “The Kraken.” The buzz going around on social media from both sides are based on the isolated statements and context added by whoever is sharing it. But the truth is very clear. She is fighting a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit. It is incumbent on her attorneys to demonstrate defamation was neither intended nor did it occur based on Powell’s statements.
What the attorneys are trying to establish is that the circumstances surrounding her statements are protected as free speech because of three important factors. First, inflammatory and polarizing language are often used in political scenarios and reasonable people expect that to be the case. Second, her own lawsuits were based on facts that allowed for interpretation and reasonable people would understand that these were the opinions upon which she filed her suits. Third, and this is very important, she made her claims against Dominion Voting Systems based on facts that she disclosed in her lawsuit.
This is not in any way demonstrating that Powell is backtracking on her claims. Her attorneys are framing the situation in the best legal way possible for their client. The people who are taking the statements in the motion to dismiss out of context are either ignorant or being disingenuous in framing it as her reversing on her own opinions regarding the 2020 election and Dominion Voting Systems.
What makes this whole situation so sad is that the vast majority of people reading the out-of-context statements by Sidney Powell’s attorneys will never allow themselves to know the truth. They’re set on laughter or betrayal and refuse to reverse their stance.
And thus Dominion did not suffer damage because there would be no damage to its reputation UNLESS proven in court - which she never had the chance to do.
Bingo to your entire post.
I stated similar, yesterday.
No court has agreed to hear her evidence.
Yes she is
RE: Yes she is
How do you interpret her statement?
She already started backtracking in November
“Sidney Powell has moved to dismiss Dominion’s defamation lawsuit. She argues that when she accused Dominion of being part of an election-rigging scheme with ties to Venezuela, “no reasonable person would conclude” those “were truly statements of fact” “
She is telling the truth. No reasonable person would ever have believed that was a statement of fact. I’m not sure you could sell it as parody.
That some people pretended to believe this (I can only hope they just pretended), is not really the point.
Yes, she is.
She has risked everything she has and has drawn so much flak...from both sides.
She must be over the target.
May YHVH God, bless and ptotect Sidney.
I believe this is to show that Dominion has no grounds for claiming defamation. If no one believes Dominion caused any harm by Powell’s statements they can hardly claim they were defamed since their public perception was not changed.
No, she is selling you a story that you want to believe that is all.
She isn’t stupid, just a con
That is how cons work
Enjoy
My comment was already removed
I guess some people can’t handle the truth on here
All Sydney has done was divide us, she did nothing to move the conservative movement, if anything she and wood did the opposite, that isn’t what we need right now.
We lost Georgia because of these two Bush bot lawyers interfering and trying to make this theirs so they can profit from it. 250K of our voters stayed home, to protest “rigged” elections.....
Cause she doesn’t have any evidence of what she is saying. She is full of it. She knows it, I know it and too bad others don’t know it
Not sure how she’s risked everything through shameless, non stop self-promotion.
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How did she con General Flynn?
Your logic is impeccable.. why would she risk everything fighting the DS to sell a story?
Believe whatever you want. I’m not here to convince you, but to learn.
On Sidney Powell. No credibility
Voter fraud happens in almost all third world nations including ours and nothing is being done against it. We have accepted it and we now experience the consequences.
Voter fraud happens in almost all third world nations including ours and nothing is being done against it. We have accepted it and we now experience the consequences.
Weren't going to get the National party's attention any other way. The greater risk to the nation was allowing the Democrat team steal the election. With Bribem as Pres there is nothing two senators are going to do to mitigate the disaster this will be.
It was well worth the gamble. The national party needs to take it's voters concerns seriously if it doesn't want to lose power.
Because she is the deep state
She is them
She is safe, she risked nothing, but has lots to gain
The lawsuit will go away
The deep state needed to keep Trump away from challenging the state law changes that were illegal. Sydney Powell help Mike Flynn so she can build credibility with the right and they used her to be a “crazy kook” to sell conspiracy theories to the right to keep the right distracted and from asking real questions.
It worked.
Its all theater
Enjoy the show
We only proved we are dumb and easy to control and manipulate
We actually believe Lin Wood, who also had zero credibility here, over President Trump
That was smart....
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