Sidney Powell settles lawsuit with man she falsely claimed was on 'Antifa conference call'
Notorious "Kraken" lawyer Sidney Powell, who pushed false claims about Dominion Voting Systems back in 2020 based on information she received from a woman who claims she can speak with the wind, has settled a defamation lawsuit filed against her by former Dominion executive Eric Coomer.
Colorado Times Recorder reported that documents filed this week show that Powell has settled Coomer's lawsuit, although the exact terms agreed are not yet clear.
In a lawsuit related to former President Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election, Powell cited a sworn affidavit from right-wing podcaster Joe Oltmann, who falsely claimed that Coomer had taken part in an "Antifa conference call" in which he plotted to steal the election from Trump.
Powell is not the first entity to settle with Coomer, as right-wing network Newsmax reached an agreement in which it publicly acknowledged that it had no evidence that "Dr. Coomer ever participated in any conversation with members of ‘Antifa,’ nor that he was directly involved with any partisan political organization.”
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What's more, Newsmax acknowledged that it "found no evidence that Dr. Coomer interfered with Dominion voting machines or voting software in any way, nor that Dr. Coomer ever claimed to have done so."
In addition to the lawsuit from Comer, Powell is also facing a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems related to her false claims about the company conspiring with the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to steal elections from conservatives all over the world.
Powell's false claims against Dominion, which were promoted by both Trump and the Republican National Committee on its Twitter account, were so far-fetched that even many Trump allies who believed that there was mass voter fraud in the 2020 election thought she went too far.
Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, for instance, argued that Powell was "the worst thing that ever happened" to their efforts to keep the former president in power.