Trump’s Former Campaign Attorney’s New Defense for Spreading the “Big Lie”

Dominion Voting Systems Inc. blasted former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell for telling a judge that her claims about a vast election-fraud conspiracy were merely opinions in order to dodge the company’s $1.3 billion defamation suit.

Powell repeatedly and falsely claimed in public that she had proof Dominion rigged the 2020 election against Donald Trump, saying she could “hardly wait to put forth all the evidence” and that “you would have to be a damn fool” not to believe it, Dominion said in a filing late Monday against Powell’s request to dismiss the lawsuit.

“Powell did not even attempt to couch her accusations as opinions,” Dominion said in the filing in Washington federal court. “She leveled the falsehoods as deadly serious assertions of fact backed by evidence that she claimed would prove that Dominion had in fact stolen the 2020 election.”

It seems this defense replaces the old one, i.e., that the idea of the stolen election, dismissed as it was by 30 different judges, is so ludicrous that no reasonable person would believe it.

IMO, this is just as lame as the first one. “I have an opinion on subject X” and “I have proof on subject X” are not even close to being equivalent.

Moreover, according to a recent poll and pathetic as it may be, 70% of the 74 million people who voted for Trump believe the election was stolen. Powell’s (and Trump’s) lies have been extremely effective in convincing 52 million American fools of something that couldn’t possibly have happened.

She’s going down hard, and it will be fun to watch.