SOS Raffensperger: The Kraken Cracks Under Pressure
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has issued a press release going after “Kraken lawyer Sidney Powell:”
Kraken lawyer Sidney Powell admitted in a filing in federal court that “no reasonable person would conclude that [her] statements were truly statements of fact.” Powell made the filing in response to a defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
“In the face of legal action, Sidney Powell admitted that her effort to make millions lying to the American people had no facts to begin with,” said Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “While the loss of the Senate due to her lies will have ramifications for years, I most sympathize with those who believed her in the first place and who she now considers not reasonable enough to realize she should not have been taken seriously.”
Powell made her admission in a filing in Dominion’s $1.3 billion lawsuit against her for defamation. Powell and her lawyers acknowledge regarding the allegedly defamatory statements regarding Dominion Voting Systems, “no reasonable person would conclude that [her] statements were truly statements of fact.” In other words, she does not consider those who believe her voter fraud claims “reasonable.”
The filing says that the claims Powell made in interviews on Fox News and Fox Business, and in a press conference at the Republican National Committee are not statements of fact. In particular, her claims “that she had evidence that the election result was the ‘greatest crime of the century if not the life of the world,’” or that Democrats “developed a computer system to alter votes electronically” would not be accepted by a “reasonable person” as “statements of fact.”
Powell and her lawyers go further, citing Dominion’s criticism that Powell’s claims were “wild accusations,” “outlandish claims,” “inherently improbable,” or “impossible” as evidence that “reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims.”
Finally, Powell and her lawyers admit that her claims about voter fraud, stolen elections, or switched votes were “her opinions and legal theories” only.
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crickets
I’ve never met The Raff in person (I don’t think), but I love these Draw Fours he keeps steadily throwing down every time the GAGOP shouts Uno.
Now Dominion has “filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election.”
Fox could follow Powell’s defense and claim no reasonable person could believe that what a purported news network says could possibly be true but that could be a reach. They’ll probably try to hide behind the First Amendment. Good luck with that.
So far Dominion has sued Powell, Giuliani, Mr. MyPillow, and now Fox News. They haven’t ruled out suing individual Fox employees.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/26/dominion-voting-sues-fox-478152