Voting equipment maker Dominion Voting Systems filed suit Friday against a former attorney for President Donald Trump who pushed conspiracy theories claiming the company rigged the 2020 election.
The company seeks more than $1.3 billion in damages against Sidney Powell in a civil suit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., accusing her of falsely claiming that Dominion “rigged the election,” “was created in Venezuela to rig elections for Hugo Chavez” and had “bribed Georgia officials for a no-bid contract.”
Powell served as one of Trump’s most visible litigators in the weeks following his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden, claiming that Dominion was a key player in a conspiracy to steal the election from Trump.
The firebrand conservative attorney, however, was fired by the Trump campaign after a Nov. 19 news conference in which she rolled out her theories about Dominion and Venezuela and made other baseless statements.
Powell, a former federal prosecutor, filed lawsuits in Georgia and Michigan seeking to overturn the results of the election — all of which were dismissed.
Her “wild accusations are demonstrably false,” Dominion said in the suit, adding there are “mountains of direct evidence that conclusively disprove Powell’s vote manipulation claims against Dominion — namely, the millions of paper ballots that were audited and recounted by bipartisan officials and volunteers” in Georgia and other key swing states.
In its complaint, Dominion said its reputation and resale value were severely damaged by a “viral disinformation campaign” orchestrated by Powell “to financially enrich herself, to raise her public profile and to ingratiate herself to Donald Trump.”
Company officials said the false accusations resulted in employees receiving death threats and being stalked and harassed.
Dominion Voting Systems employee Eric Coomer filed a separate defamation suit against the Trump campaign last month, saying the conspiracy allegations forced him into hiding due to death threats.
His lawsuit named Powell, fellow Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani, podcast host Joseph Oltmann and several conservative media organizations as defendants for disseminating the claims.
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Dominion Definition:
NOUN – sovereignty or control,,, another term for domination.
Are THE PEOPLE so dumbed down they cannot even understand the English language any more? Dominion is indeed living up to its name and they must feel very confident they control enough courts to Dominate any and all investigations to ultimately control and Dominate the good old USA. This is not a quest for justice, but just another indication of how deep the corruption goes. I’ll be surprised Fox news or any Conservative news organization lasts in business beyond the end of the next election cycle. Hanity, Carlson, Ingram and others are destrined for perp walks.
AND not only will conservative news orgs, get silenced, but i predict, all conservative sites, will get silenced too… Just you wait.
Fox News is longer the conservative bastion it once was. Ever since Rupert Murdoch turned over control to his leftist sons, the channel has been continually leaning to the left. They have added an array of leftist, RINO and other generally Trump hating individuals to their lineup of contributors.
I know they still have a few conservative holdouts, like Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, but once their ratings begin to fall, I expect they will be gone.
We stopped watching the channel when they started doing things like calling Arizona and Virginia before the votes were even counted. Also, when Neil Cavuto completely disrespected Kayleigh McEnany, when she was outlining the wide spread election fraud going on in this election, we were appalled. Never again does Fox get a hit from our smart TV.
I certainly would LOVE to see Tucker etc all JUMP SHIP NOW, before they get FIRED..
Her “wild accusations are demonstrably false,” Dominion said
Since this was, and never will be properly investigated we will never know.
The DOJ, SCOTUS, Democrat and Republican parties made very sure that the truth behind the theft of this election will remain cloaked behind a wall of secrecy.
AND we’ll never ever, be given any true justice, ever again.
Yep, Dominion, your voting machines were so perfect, they flipped votes that were Trump votes, to Biden, in Antrim County, Michigan, didn’t they? Of course Texas refused to allow your perfect voting machines, to be used in the last election in Texas, didn’t they Dominion? Obviously, Texas could not be bought, the way certain politicians in other states were “bought”, by Dominion!
I’m thinking, yes, by all means, let us get this into a court so we can finally see all the evidence that they refuse to see before.
YOu expect the courts, WHO HAVE CONTINUALLY STABBED US in the back, to DO any thing different, in the future?!