Sidney Powell Just Shot Herself In the Foot Demanding That Dominion Drop Its Suits Or ‘We Will Be On Offense’

There are two dominoes that are going to be particularly interesting when they fall. One is Mike Lindell, the other is Sidney Powell. You recall how a seemingly chastened Powell, upon being sued for $1.3 Billion by Dominion Voting Systems, said that no reasonable person would have taken her claims seriously and therefore her speech was protected as opinion and she couldn’t be sued. She seems to have forgotten all about that. Last weekend at the big blow out in Dallas, the QAnon-based Faith and Freedom Conference, she spoke on panels and essentially doubled down on all of her original claims against Dominion and then threatened to go after them. Daily Beast:

Powell drew nationwide attention last month for her bizarre claim at a Dallas MAGA rally that the twice-impeached former President Trump could be “reinstated” as commander-in-chief. But a little-noticed portion of that appearance on May 29 may prove to be more consequential. In it, she likely damaged one of the core arguments her lawyers are using to try to fend off the billion-dollar lawsuit over her baseless claims about the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic have filed multi-billion dollar suits against Powell and others for defamation over her public claims about the company and its products, including her wild assertion that its software was part of Venezuelan plot to steal elections and created masses of fake votes for Biden. In response, Powell’s attorneys have tried to argue that her statements were not meant to be factual—but rather legally protected statements of opinion. […]

But a half-hour into the panel at the Dallas Patriot Roundup late last month, Powell appeared to veer away from the defense her attorneys had set out, according to multiple videos reviewed by The Daily Beast.

“I don’t think they realized that some of us litigators were going to catch on and hold their feet to the fire and expose what really happened or that they could shut us up by, say, suing me for 4.3 billion dollars in three different states,” Powell said at the panel discussion. “Threatening me is like waving a red flag in a bull’s face.”

Dominion’s suit against her should be dismissed, Powell continued, because “number one, they don’t have jurisdiction over us and number two, we meant what we said and we have the evidence to back it up.”

And she’s off, ala Lindell, claiming to have mountains of evidence, all of which is devastating and all of which somehow can never come to light, it can only be talked about. Defamation expert Ted Boutrous, Jr. said, “That seems like an extremely damaging admission from Ms. Powell that eviscerates her main defense, which is based on a distortion of the opinion doctrine to begin with. Dominion will have a field day with this statement in opposing her efforts to dismiss the case before trial, and before the jury if and when the case goes to trial.”

Not only that, Powell seems to want to taunt Dominion. She said that if Dominion doesn’t toss out their suits against herself and her legal defense organization, Defending the Republic, “then we will get discovery against Dominion and we will be on offense,” she added.

I think it’s safe to say that Dominion would welcome her going on offense. It will only make their job easier.

It would be good to know what happened to Sidney Powell, but we probably never will. She was considered a real rising star very early in life, a true firebrand. She had a reputation as a hard worker and was a competent prosecutor for years, it has been said. What caused her to go down the same garden path as Rudy Giuliani is a complete mystery. She wrote a book about prosecutorial abuse, and maybe that’s what got the conspiracy theory ball rolling. Perhaps she started seeing misconduct everywhere, under every rock. Something happened, that much is evident.