Sydney Powell Is the Kraken
“No Reasonable Person Would Believe That!”
Sidney Powell earned fifteen minutes of fame and a multi-billion dollar lawsuit for championing the Big Lie of a “stolen election.”
For weeks in November and December 2020, Sidney Powell joined Rudy Giuliani in asserting that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. She pushed conspiracy theories so kooky that even Rudy began distancing himself and the Trump machine from her.
The highlight of her involvement came during a TV appearance on Fox Business. She claimed to have “voluminous evidence” of massive voter fraud. Although neither she nor Trump ever produced all this evidence, Powell promised back then, “I’m going to release the kraken.”
Powell’s main conspiracy theory involved Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic rigging their machines to change votes from Trump to Biden. Somewhere, a shadowing pseudo-connection to Hugo Chavez played a role.
Both Dominion and Smartmatic are suing Powell for defamation. She’s defending herself and asking for the lawsuit to be dismissed by claiming, “reasonable people would not accept such statements as facts.”
Powell’s lawyers have argued in their court filings, political language is “often vituperative, abusive, and inexact” as well as “inherently prone to…
