Dominion skewers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell’s election claims as ‘ludicrous, inherently improbable, and technologically impossible’
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Dominion Voting Systems said in a lawsuit against Fox News that GOP lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani’s claims of election fraud were “ludicrous, inherently improbable, and technologically impossible.”
The voting tech company is suing Fox News for defamation and seeking $1.6 billion in damages. In its complaint, Dominion noted that Powell and Giuliani repeatedly claimed the “election had been stolen by vote-flipping algorithms in Dominion machines that had been created in Venezuela to rig elections for Hugo Chavez,” who has been dead since 2013.
“As Fox well knew, Powell and Giuliani were facially unreliable sources and their claims were ludicrous, inherently improbable, and technologically impossible,” the complaint said. “Powell was and is such an obviously unreliable source – and her claims about Dominion were so inherently improbable and outlandish – that those very same lies resulted in Tucker Carlson publicly mocking her for failing to produce evidence to support them.”
Powell is also the defendant in another $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion. In a court filing last week, Powell’s lawyers argued that the case should be dismissed because “no reasonable person” takes her seriously.
“Even assuming, arguendo, that each of the statements alleged in the Complaint could be proved true or false, no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact,” Powell’s lawyers said.
Dominion’s lawsuit against Fox News on Friday highlighted Powell’s fall from grace as her conspiracy theories about the election became increasingly untethered from reality.
“Even the Trump Campaign publicly distanced itself from her, with Trump loyalist Chris Christie calling her claims a ‘national embarrassment,’ and Republican senators calling the White House to say she seemed ‘unhinged,'” the lawsuit said. “Indeed, at the White House itself, officials stated that Powell’s claims were ‘nonsense.'”