Sidney Powell Says Her Dominion Claims Were Opinion Not Fact
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Sidney Powell speaks during a news conference at Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 19, 2020.
Photographer: Al Drago/BloombergFormer Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell said the defamation suit filed against her by Dominion Voting Systems Inc. should be tossed out because “no reasonable person” would believe her claims about the election software company were “truly statements of fact.”
In a motion to dismiss filed Monday in Washington, Powell argued her claims about Dominion were “political speech” that’s protected by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. Her claims were clearly understood to be nothing more than “opinions and legal theories,” she argued, and criticism of her comments at time as “inherently improbable” illustrate her point.