Sidney “Kraken” Powell Is Back in Court with an Ironic Defense To that $1.3bil Defamation Action
Powell, along with others such as MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, has remained defiant in her public statements about Dominion and the election. But in her court filings, her lawyers sing a very different tune. They moved to dismiss Dominion’s entire defamation case on grounds that no reasonable person could have heard her statements and accepted them as fact. This is what her lawyers argued in their most recent filing:
“Indeed, Plaintiffs themselves characterize the statements at issue as ‘wild accusations’ and ‘outlandish claims.’ They are repeatedly labeled ‘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.”
This is some thick irony. In scrambling for a viable defense, Powell’s own attorneys have essentially argued that three-quarters of Republican voters are not reasonable people because they did accept these statements as fact. Indeed, even after the courts threw out all of these claims (and Powell was under a legal requirement in the first instance to not file specious claims and facts in the federal courts), these same voters continued to believe what Powell had said and still do to this day.
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