Ross: ‘No reasonable person’ should believe Sidney Powell’s defense of election lies

Remember Sidney Powell, one of the lawyers who pushed Trump’s election fraud claims? Here’s a refresher from a press conference on Nov. 19, 2020.

She said the voting machines manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems were programmed to flip votes:

“It can set and run an algorithm that [switches votes] to president Biden,” she claimed.

She said her team had clear evidence.

“Which we might never have uncovered … that had been plugged into the system,” Powell continued.

She said there was not just statistical evidence, but physical evidence:

“That’s when they came in the back door with the mail-in ballots,” she said.

She then claimed that because of this company, an American election was stolen.

“And I want the American public to know right now,” she concluded.

Well, now she’s being sued by the company that made the machines that she claimed were deliberately programmed to steal the election.

To defend herself, in her official written response to the lawsuit, she is saying that her own statements, which I just played, “cannot be interpreted as stating actual facts.”

Wow! It would have been nice if she’d just said that at the time. It might have even prevented an insurrection!

But her defense goes even further. In it, she argues, “no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.”

So she’s saying all those Trump supporters who believed her – hundreds of whom will now have criminal records for acting on what she said – were just … gullible.

But it doesn’t even stop there because she is now denying that her legal brief actually says these things I’ve quoted from it! So I’ve posted a link to the brief here (for reference, page 27 of the brief is where she really steers the bus toward Trump supporters and hits the gas).

I’ll give her credit for one thing – she was passionate about demanding accountability for those who would perpetrate fraud on the public:

“This is stunning, heartbreaking, infuriating … in any way shape or form,” she said in November.

I could not agree more.

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