89. Powell also cherry-picked Princeton professor Andrew W. Appel’s statements about a decades-old machine not designed by Dominion, which was not used in the 2020 election in any of the swing states being challenged by Powell. ...
90. Powell also touted a shocking declaration from an anonymous purported Venezuelan military officer alleging a decades-old international election-rigging conspiracy beginning with Hugo Chávez. 59 But the “anonymous witness’s” explanation for why he purportedly came forward was a near-verbatim recitation from another declaration put forward by Powell, ...
| Declaration of an anonymous source claiming to have been selected for the “national security guard detail of the President of Venezuela,” Pearson v. Kemp, No. 1:20-cv-04809 (N.D. Ga. Nov. 25, 2020) [Dkt. 1-2 at ¶ 4]. | Statement by Ana Mercedes Díaz Cardozo, Pearson v. Kemp, No. 1:20-cv-04809 (N.D. Ga. Nov. 25, 2020) [Dkt. 1-3 at ¶ 3]. |
| “I want to alert the public and let the world know the truth about the corruption, manipulation, and lies being committed by a conspiracy of people and companies intent upon betraying the honest people of the United States and their legally constituted institutions and fundamental rights as citizens. This conspiracy began more than a decade ago in Venezuela and has spread to countries all over the world. It is a conspiracy to wrongfully gain and keep power and wealth. It involves political leaders, powerful companies, and other persons whose purpose is to gain and keep power by changing the free will of the people and subverting the proper course of governing.” | “I want to alert the public and let the world know the truth about corruption, manipulation, and lies being committed through a conspiracy of individuals and businesses with the intention of betraying the honest people of the United States and its legally constituted institutions and fundamental rights as citizens. This conspiracy began more than a decade ago in Venezuela and has spread to countries all over the world. It is a conspiracy to unjustly gain and maintain power and wealth. It involves political leaders, powerful companies, and other persons whose purpose is to gain and maintain power by changing people’s free will and subverting the proper course of governing.” |
96. Ironically, of the three companies identified on the Georgia Secretary of State’s website as having submitted a bid for the Georgia contract, Dominion is the only one that has never serviced an election in Venezuela. ...
97. During her defamatory media campaign, Powell has asserted that her accusations of Venezuelan election-rigging against Dominion are supported by the declaration of an anonymous purported Venezuelan military officer. ... (3) even if he is who he purports to be, there are serious reasons to doubt the outlandish claims of someone
who worked for a dictatorship with an interest in undermining confidence in American democracy, ...
103. Powell’s own court filings prove she knows those claims are false. ...
104. ... Powell’s so-called experts included Terpsichore Maras-Lindeman, Russell Ramsland, William Briggs, Matt Braynard, and Navid Keshavarz-Nia.
105. According to a publicly available court order, Terpsichore Maras-Lindeman is a serial liar and con artist. ...
106. Russell Ramsland is a failed Republican congressional candidate and conspiracy theorist who has publicly claimed, among other things, that George Soros helped form the “Deep State” in Nazi Germany in the 1930s ... (Mr. Soros was born in 1930.) ...
108. ... Keshavarz-Nia declared, under penalty of perjury, that there was a pattern of improbable vote reporting in “Edison County, Michigan”—a county that does not exist in that state.
109. On information and belief, Powell knew that her purported experts were unreliable from information she possessed or purposefully avoided, from her training as an attorney, and from her experience as a former federal prosecutor.
