Sidney Powell: no reasonable person could believe anything I was saying
I see one of the officers in Trump’s Elite Legal Strike Force is going with the Tucker Carlson defense:
Sidney Powell, the pro-Trump lawyer who spread baseless claims of election fraud, moved Monday to dismiss Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against her.
What she’s saying: Powell argues in her motion that “no reasonable person” would conclude that her accusations of Dominion’s election-rigging scheme “were truly statements of fact.”She claims that Dominion conducted a “well-orchestrated public relations campaign to save their business” and that allegations against her are “sparse.”
Her legal team also requested that the case be moved from D.C. to Texas if it isn’t tossed out.
The big picture: Dominion sued Powell for $1.3 billion in January over her conspiracy theories, one of which alleged without evidence that Dominion was part of a massive international communist plot to rig the election.
The venue shopping, however, suggests to me that as a legal defense this harder for a lawyer to pull off than a cable news bingo caller.