{"id":46303,"date":"2021-01-08T15:09:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T19:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=46303"},"modified":"2021-01-08T15:09:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T19:09:55","slug":"dominion-files-1-3-billion-lawsuit-against-sydney-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=46303","title":{"rendered":"Dominion Files $1.3 Billion Lawsuit Against Sydney Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sidney Powell Sued By Dominion For $1.3 Billion<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Dominion Voting Systems is suing attorney Sidney Powell for $1.3 billion in damages, after the pro-Trump lawyer made wide-ranging accusations against the company in the wake of the 2020 US election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/sidney%20powell_0.jpg?itok=hiKqxpKn\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/sidney%20powell_0.jpg?itok=hiKqxpKn\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/sidney%20powell_0.jpg?itok=hiKqxpKn\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"1234331e-a2bd-451b-9b16-b2843a519210\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/dominion-sues-sidney-powell-defamation-99b3bb1f-a655-4f9a-8db8-8ccfa5f02393.html\"><em>Axios<\/em><\/a>, Dominion alleges that Powell acted &#8220;in concert with allies and media outlets determined to promote a false preconceived narrative about the 2020 election\u2014caused unprecedented harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dominion CEO John Paulos told the outlet last week that he may sue Trump as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of the defamatory falsehoods peddled by Powell &#8230; Dominion\u2019s founder, Dominion\u2019s employees, Georgia\u2019s governor, and Georgia\u2019s secretary of state have been harassed and have received death threats, and Dominion has suffered enormous harm,&#8221; reads the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>More via\u00a0<em>Axios<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;After Dominion sent Powell a letter putting her on formal notice of the facts and the death threats and asking her to retract her false claims, Powell doubled down, tweeting to her 1.2 million Twitter followers that she heard that \u201c#Dominion\u201d had written to her and that, although she had not even seen Dominion\u2019s letter yet, she was \u201cretracting nothing\u201d because \u201c[w]e have #evidence\u201d and \u201cThey are #fraud masters!&#8221;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Dominion brings this action to set the record straight, to vindicate the company\u2019s rights under civil law, to recover compensatory and punitive damages, to seek a narrowly tailored injunction, and to stand up for itself and its employees.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paulos said last week that the Colorado-based company was preparing a lawsuit against Powell, and was considering potential litigation against\u00a0<em>Fox News, Newsmax\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>One America News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were things being said about me personally, about the company that I founded that are so demonstrably false,&#8221; he told\u00a0<em>Axios<\/em>,&#8221; adding &#8220;The level of falsity just reached a level that I had not previously thought would ever be possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our focus right now is on Sidney Powell, and there\u2019s a very good reason for that. She is by far \u2014 in our opinion \u2014 the most egregious and prolific purveyor of the falsities against Dominion,&#8221; Paulos added. &#8220;Her statements have caused real damage, they\u2019re demonstrably false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the filing below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_61323\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"govuscourtsdcd22569910_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/490132557\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-Tl5VMVRgUsoQpas8gT2Y\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/sidney-powell-sued-dominion-13-billion\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/sidney-powell-sued-dominion-13-billion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidney Powell Sued By Dominion For $1.3 Billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}