Sidney Powell could have avoided legal headaches if she hadn't ignored Trump campaign memo: report

Despite being fired from Donald Trump's campaign legal team in the wake of a November 2020 press conference where she spouted conspiracy theories about the election, Sidney Powell went on to sue officials in numerous states Trump had lost in an attempt to overturn election results -- lawsuits that all failed.

Powell's efforts have resulted in defamation lawsuits against her amounting to billions of dollars as well attempts to seek sanctions against her -- all things that could have been avoided if she had looked at a memo from the Trump campaign, Business Insider reports.

Powell's lawsuits in numerous battleground states, including Wisconsin, falsely claimed that the election technology companies Dominion and Smartmatic were involved in a mass conspiracy to rig the 2020 election.

During Powell's brief time with the Trump campaign, staffers wrote a memo that showed her claims about Dominion and Smartmatic were false, but reportedly Powell ignored it, Evers' attorneys say, which demonstrates that she didn't do her due diligence while bringing the "Kraken" lawsuits falsely alleging election conspiracy theories. According to lawyers for Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, Powell didn't do her due diligence when it came to her lawsuit alleging a mass conspiracy to steal the election.

"The memo itself further illustrates that even a modicum of research — nothing more complex than a little Googling — would have demonstrated the absence of any basis for the theory advanced here that Dominion voting machines had altered individual votes, much less the outcome of the election," the lawyers write.

As Business Insider points out, Evers is seeking $106,000 in sanctions against Powell and her co-attorneys to cover the costs of her lawsuits.