Imagine you’re in a movie theater – you might remember them from the Before Times – and someone yells “Fire!” Everybody jumps up in a frenzy and sprints for the door, crashing into each other and filling the auditorium with screams of panic and the sound of brittle, elderly bones snapping.
But you smell no smoke, and as you press yourself against the wall in an attempt to stay out of the suck-tide of humanity, you see the woman who issued the warning standing, hands in pockets, in the middle of the empty rows of seats. Standing next to her is an attorney.
“What reasonable person could possibly have believed her?” the fire-shouter’s mouthpiece says with a neat little grin.
Minus the grin, this is essentially the argument being made by attorneys for Sidney Powell, the Texas-based lawyer responsible for what became known as the “Kraken” lawsuits challenging the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. In the weeks following President Donald Trump’s defeat, Powell claimed – among many other things – that software used by Dominion Voting Systems had been created at the behest of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez (dead for almost a decade), and that the company, whose systems are used in almost half of U.S. states, had been paid to rig the election for Joe Biden. (Why the globalist cabal allegedly behind this didn’t rig the election to defeat more Republican House and Senate candidates was not addressed.)
In a court filing last week, Powell’s attorneys argued that Dominion’s lawsuit should be thrown out for various reasons. Notably, they also claimed that her zany claims against Dominion are protected by the First Amendment as mere statements of her opinion on matters of pressing public importance.