Dominion says it suffered from the conspiracy theories pushed by Sidney Powell and others, including Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
Lawyers for pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell said that “no reasonable person” would believe that her false claims and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election were “truly statements of fact.” The new argument from Powell, who had aggressively promoted claims that the election was rigged against former President Donald Trump, came Monday in a court filing asking a federal judge to dismiss the $1.3 billion defamation suit filed by Dominion Voting Systems in January. Dominion, whose voting systems were used in numerous states in the 2020 contest, claims that Powell and other prominent election-theft conspiracists, including Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, have caused “irreparable harm” to the company. Trump and his legal team, which at one time included Powell, claimed victory in the Nov.3 election even after media outlets and officials called the race for Joe Biden. At a late-November press conference alongside Giuliani and other lawyers, Powell claimed Dominion was part of an international election-rigging conspiracy involving “communist money” from countries including Venezuela and Cuba. Trump’s lawyers distanced themselves from Powell shortly thereafter — but she went on to file lawsuits making similar claims about the race being stolen from Trump and rife with fraud, aiming to decertify the vote results in key states.
