>>> AFTER MONTHS OF PUSHING
DONALD TRUMP’S BIG LIE, THE
ELECTION WAS RIGGED AGAINST HEM,
BIZARRE CONSPIRACY THEORIES
APPEARED TO INTIMATE THAT HUGO
CHAVEZ HAD MANIPULATED VOTING
MACHINES.
AND INGRATIATING HERSELF TO
TRUMP, LAWYER SYDNEY POWELL HAS
GIVEN UP THE GAME.
IN A COURT FILINGS DEFENDING
POWELL FROM A BILLION DOLLAR
DEFAMATION LAWSUIT FROM DO
MINION SAID THE CLAIMS WERE NOT AT ALL TRUE, A TOO RIDICULOUS TO
AT ALL TRUE, A TOO RIDICULOUS TO
BE DEFAMATORY, QUOTE --
SUCH CHARACTERIZATION OF THE
ALLEGEDLY DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS
FURSE SUPPORT THE DEFENDANT’S
POSITION THAT REASONABLE PEOPLE
WOULD NOT ACCEPT SUCH STATEMENTS
AS FACTS.
THAT’S RIGHT, AFTER MONTHS OF
HELPING TO WHIP UP SO MUCH FURY
AMONG THE TRUMP BASE THAT
THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS STORMED
THE CAPITOL BILLING, SYDNEY
POWELL SAYS THAT NOW THOSE
PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER
THAN TO BELIEVE HER.
ELECTION LAWYER MARK ELIAS
LED -- FOUNDER OF DEMOCRACY
DOCKETT.
HE JOINS ME NOW.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS
RESPONSE?
>> WELL, I AGREE WITH HER THAT
HER CLAIMS WERE NONSENSE, BUT
THAT DOESN’T MEAN THEY’RE NOT
ACTIONABLE AS DEFAMATION.
THE FACT IS SHE LIED REPEATEDLY
ABOUT THE OUTCOME OF THE
ELECTION, AND IN THIS LAWSUIT
SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE ROLE THAT
THE VARIOUS VOTING MACHINE
MANUFACTURERS MAY HAVE PLAYED OR
DIDN’T PLAY.
YOU KNOW, HER EFFORT BY HER
LAWYERS, WHILE GALLIAN, WILL NOT
SAVE HER.
>>> THERE WAS ALWAYS A STRANGE
THING THAT WAS HAPPENING.
THEY WOULD SAY ONE THING IN
PUBLIC.
WHEN THEY HAD TO FILE THINGS IN
COURT AND MAKE ARGUMENTS IN
COURT, WHERE THEY COULD BE
DISBARRED, THERE WERE VERY, VERY
DIFFERENT KINDS OF SONGS THEY
WERE SINGING.
>> YEAH, THEY TENDED TO BE VERY
BRAVE IN THE PARKING LOT, NOT SO
BRAVE IN THE COURTROOM.
YOU KNOW, THE BIG BRAVADO
OUTSIDE THE LAWN CARE COMPANY
WAS FOLLOWED BY A MEEK
PERFORMANCE SITTING BEFORE THE
FEDERAL JUDGE.
ONCE THINGS I FIND MOST AMUSING
ABOUT THE DOCUMENT THAT YOU’RE
JUST REFERENCING IS THAT HER
LAWYERS SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW,
SOME OF THESE THINGS SHE HAD AT
THE RNC, AS IF TO SUGGEST THAT
YOU CAN’T BELIEVE ANYTHING SAID
AT THE RNC.
>>> THERE’S SOMETHING MADDENING,
THOUGH, IT SEEMED LIKE A
CARNIVAL BARKER PERFORM WRAPS
FOR THE WHOLE THING, EVEN FROM
TRUMP, GIULIANI.
AT ONE LEVEL IT WAS SO PREPOSE
TRUST, THE THINGS THEY WERE
SAYING WERE SO MANIFESTLY BEING
OFFERED WITHOUT EVIDENCE, BUT
SOME SUBSET OF THOSE PEOPLE BEAT
THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF A BUNCH
OF COPS ON CAPITOL HILL WHEN
THEY TRIED STALKING AROUND THE
CAPITOL LOOKING FOR NANCY
PELOSI.
>> YEAH, LOOK, THERE’S GOING TO
HAVE TO BE ACCOUNTABILITY.
YOU HAD A BUNCH OF LAWYERS AND
POLITICIANS, LED BY
DONALD TRUMP, WHO SYSTEMATICALLY
LIED TO VOTERS BEFORE THE
ELECTION, THEN LIED TO THEIR
VOTERS AFTER THE ELECTION.
THAT BIG LIE THEN CULMINATED IN
VIOLENCE ON JANUARY 6th AT THE
CAPITOL.
YOU WOULD THINK EVEN AFTER THAT,
THEY WOULD NOW ABANDON IT, BUT
INSTEAD WE SEE IN LEGISLATURES