Dominion sues Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for defamation

We won the election in a landslide. Almost 75 million people voted for me. Despite President Donald Trump's repeated claims of victory, he did not win the presidential election. Joe Biden defeated him by more than seven million votes, winning more than 81 million overall, the most by any US presidential candidate in American history. Biden then went on to win the Electoral College a month later with 306 electoral votes, the exact margin in the Electoral College. Trump had called a landslide four years ago when he got the very same number. How else do we know Biden beat Trump because Trump's own appointees say so. Since Election Day, the Trump campaign has tried to overturn the results with claims of voter fraud. But Trump's own administration says there is no proof of widespread fraud that could change the outcome, including his handpicked attorney general Bill Bar, his handpicked cyber security chief, Chris Krebs, his handpicked head of the U. S. Election Assistance Commission, Ben Hovland. In the closest states, results have been certified by Republican governors, Trump endorsed and by Republican secretaries of state, even after courts dismissed dozens of lawsuits because they contained no evidence of fraud. President Trump's own picks for the U. S Supreme Court wouldn't even hear his final plea. The US Constitution requires Congress to meet in a joint session today to count the electoral ballots already certified by each state. Every single one. The president of the Senate, in this case, Vice President Mike Pence, opens the certificates and quote. The votes shall then be counted according to the Constitution. I hope Mike Pence comes through for us. There is no provision in the Constitution that allows pence to delay or stop or change the count. Pence's official White House bio says he is a quote champion for the Constitution. Finally, of all the House Republicans objecting to certifying electoral votes for Biden, every single one of them shared a ballot with President Trump and not one of them alleged fraud or objected to taking their own seat when the new session of Congress began on Sunday. Those are the fax in Washington. I'm chief national investigative correspondent Mark Albert

Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against lawyer Sidney Powell on Friday, seeking at least $1.3 billion for Powell's “wild accusations�� that the company rigged the presidential election for Joe Biden.“Dominion brings this action to set the record straight,�� the company said in the suit filed in federal court in Washington.Powell has for weeks claimed without evidence that the election technology vendor, whose vote-counting equipment was used in several states, was part of a scheme to steal the election from President Donald Trump. Powell has been representing Trump in a series of unsuccessful lawsuits filed to contest the election outcome.She has claimed that the company was created in Venezuela to rig elections for the late leader Hugo Chavez and that it has the ability to switch votes.There was no widespread fraud in the election, which a range of election officials across the country including Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed. Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states crucial to Biden’s victory, also vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme Court, which includes three Trump-nominated justices.The company said there “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 swing states, which confirmed that Dominion accurately counted votes on paper ballots."Dominion said that when it formally told Powell her claims were false and asked her to retract them, she “doubled down,�� using her Twitter account with more than 1 million followers to amplify the claims.Eric Coomer, Dominion's security director, already has sued Powell, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the president's campaign for defamation after he was driven into hiding by death threats. Conservative columnists and news outlets also were named in Coomer's lawsuit, filed in Colorado, where the company is based.Powell did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.

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“Dominion brings this action to set the record straight,�� the company said in the suit filed in federal court in Washington.

Powell has for weeks claimed without evidence that the election technology vendor, whose vote-counting equipment was used in several states, was part of a scheme to steal the election from President Donald Trump. Powell has been representing Trump in a series of unsuccessful lawsuits filed to contest the election outcome.

She has claimed that the company was created in Venezuela to rig elections for the late leader Hugo Chavez and that it has the ability to switch votes.

There was no widespread fraud in the election, which a range of election officials across the country including Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed. Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states crucial to Biden’s victory, also vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme Court, which includes three Trump-nominated justices.

The company said there “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 swing states, which confirmed that Dominion accurately counted votes on paper ballots."

Dominion said that when it formally told Powell her claims were false and asked her to retract them, she “doubled down,�� using her Twitter account with more than 1 million followers to amplify the claims.

Eric Coomer, Dominion's security director, already has sued Powell, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the president's campaign for defamation after he was driven into hiding by death threats. Conservative columnists and news outlets also were named in Coomer's lawsuit, filed in Colorado, where the company is based.

Powell did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.

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Dominion sues Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for defamation

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