Dominion Voting Systems, the election technology company at the center of vote-fraud controversies, served MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell with a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit on Monday, February 22.
Dominion’s 115-page complaint accuses Lindell of exploiting interviews, rallies, and advertisements “to boost sales: marketing MyPillow to people who would tune in and attend rallies to hear Lindell tell the ‘Big Lie’ that Dominion had stolen the 2020 election.”
“Despite repeated warnings and efforts to share the facts with him, Mr. Lindell has continued to maliciously spread false claims about Dominion, each time giving empty assurances that he would come forward with overwhelming proof,” Dominion CEO John Poulos stated in a February 22 press release. “These claims have caused irreparable harm to Dominion’s good reputation and threatened the safety of our employees and customers,” Poulos continued. “Moreover, Mr. Lindell’s lies have undermined trust in American democracy and tarnished the hard work of local election officials,” he said.
In a phone interview with CNBC, Lindell said, “I’m very happy that they finally got that suit filed.”
“My message to Dominion is thank you for finally getting this done, because it’ll be back in the limelight now,” Lindell reportedly told the network.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Lindell said he was “very, very happy” to find out about the suit. “I have all the evidence on them,” he told the Journal. “Now this will get disclosed faster, all the machine fraud and the attack on our country.”
The New American was literally minutes away from beginning a scheduled Skype video interview with Lindell Monday morning when he announced he had just been served with the suit and apologetically asked if we could reschedule the interview to allow him to deal with the legal situation and make some timely press statements regarding it.
Dominion has brought or threatened similar suits against attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, as well as Fox News, Newsmax, One America News, and other media outlets.
The Dominion lawsuit against Lindell alleges that “Despite repeated warnings and efforts to share the facts with him, Mr. Lindell has continued to maliciously spread false claims about Dominion.” These claims, the suit says, “have caused irreparable harm to Dominion’s good reputation and threatened the safety of our employees and customers. Moreover, Mr. Lindell’s lies have undermined trust in American democracy and tarnished the hard work of local election officials.”
Dominion charges in the suit that:
- “Lindell knowingly lied about Dominion to sell more pillows to people who continued tuning in to hear what they wanted to hear about the election.”
- “… in the course of his business as MyPillow’s CEO and agent, Lindell published false statements about Dominion with actual malice.”
- “Lindell’s defamatory statements were accompanied with ill will, recklessness, wantonness, willful disregard of Dominion’s rights, and other circumstances tending to aggravate the injury, including but not limited to Lindell repeating his defamatory falsehoods even though he knew Dominion employees were receiving death threats because of them.”
Lindell, a fervent pro-life Christian and an ardent supporter of President Trump, has been banned from Twitter and censored by other social-media platforms. On February 5 he released his two-hour documentary, Absolute Proof, on the systemic vote fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. We reported on February 9 that in the first 72 hours of the release of the freely available video, it had racked up more than 30 million views. In a February 19 interview on Rudy Giuliani’s radio/podcast program, Lindell said the worldwide online viewership of Absolute Proof had surpassed 100 million.
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