No kidding. To see people actually falling for this?
Posted on 03/25/2021 5:58:32 AM PDT by thegagline
Former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell yesterday responded to the $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit that Dominion Voting Systems filed after she repeatedly accused the company of participating in an elaborate international conspiracy to deny Donald Trump his rightful victory in last year's presidential election. Her defense, more or less, is that she did not really mean what she said.
True, Powell claimed over and over again that Dominion rigged voting machines to manufacture "millions" of votes for Joe Biden. She fingered a specific Dominion executive as largely responsible for the scheme, claimed the plot had its roots in fraud-facilitating software that had helped keep Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez in power, and said China, Cuba, and George Soros were also in on it. But "no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact," Powell says in her motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Powell also argues that the preposterousness of her allegations should protect her from civil liability for damaging Dominion's reputation. "Plaintiffs themselves characterize the statements at issue as 'wild accusations' and 'outlandish claims,'" she notes. "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." ***
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Welcome!
She’s up to something.
Yes, and most of the comments that followed ours are also failing to recognize this is fake news.
Powell took a big personal risk by invoking her first amendment right to speak the truth about Dominion because she is a patriot.
She knew that if President Trump prevailed, she would be protected and if he did not, she would be attacked ruthlessly by the vindictive Left.
She lost that gamble, as did all patriots - and now she has to let her lawyers defend her in the most effective way they can.
Her lawyers know that her best defense is not to double down and try to convince the morons on the Left that there was indeed fraud.
Her best defense is to prove her claims were not liable and were not defamation, because they were made in the political arena.
It is shameful how quick so many FReepers are to throw this patriot under the bus.
She is using reverse psychology. Brilliant.
Good to see someone else gets it!
You mean 6-Dimensional Chess!
Fair enough!
Yep I got attacked for saying this. Meanwhile, there was legitimate fraud exposed in the PA hearings, but we’re not talking about this. We were talking about CIA servers and other nonsense, and I get called a deep state shill for saying as such. 2020 was the year I started going directly to block with no warnings.
No kidding. To see people actually falling for this?
It would appear your reading of the briefs was not adequate.
I stand behind her and I look forward to your homelessness.
Why are ya’ll misrepresenting what she said the same way CNN et al does.
I read enough to know that is a deceptive distortion on what she wrote. She said any reasonable person would know they were claims made to be decided in an appropriate court.
I don’t know if her claima are true or not, but I know the ccharacterization that her defense is that her claims are too outrageous for any reasonable person to believe is an intelligent deceptive distortion.
I’m with you on this, especially after she filed a suit in which her “expert” discussed election returns in a county that doesn’t exist anywhere in the United States.
So you agree that she's a liar.
Fair enough.
...”She isn’t backing down and her claims were accurate. But she is merely using the words of dominion against them in a legal sense.”
I like your response.
Much better than the praise she received here followed by the kick her while she’s down activity posted here.
Antrim Co, Michigan, just sayin’.
The use of the phrase "more or less" means, 100% of the time, that you're about to read the writer's dishonest interpretation of what the person actually said.
Another "indicator" is when "you see" the writer putting "small phrases" in quotation marks "surrounded by" their own words, "making entirely" new points "using the original speakers" words as if "it's" something "they actually" said.
It’s not a legal opinion whether or not Dominion was founded by or on concert with a Venezuelan dictator.
That is something that can be proven or verified.
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