MyPillow owner Mike Lindell was found liable of defaming a Dominion Voting Systems worker.
The bombastic MAGA conspiracy theorist was ordered by a Colorado jury on Monday to pay the company’s former security and product strategy director Eric Coomer $2.3 million in Denver.
Coomer’s lawyers successfully argued Lindell was lying or speaking recklessly when he used his social media platform FrankSpeech to label Coomer a traitor whose company’s equipment was used to steal the 2020 presidential election from President Trump. Though there’s no evidence suggesting any such thing happened, Lindell continued pushing debunked rumors at his trial. No expert witnesses testified in support of the beddings salesman’s claims.
MAGA cable outlet Newsmax apologised to Coomer in 2021 for making similar suggestions.
The plaintiff told jurors attacks promoted by Lindell sent his life into disarray during a two-week hearing the defendant hoped would draw attention to voting technologies he finds untrustworthy. Lindell’s legal team denied their client defamed Coomer and tried to distance him from statements broadcast on FrankSpeech.
According to the 63-year-old Minnesota native, his attempts to disparage the electoral process the year Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden left him $10 million in debt. Lindell claimed to be worth $60 million prior to that vote count.
Fox News paid $787 million to keep Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against that cable channel from going to trial. Lindell sued Dominion for defamation in 2021 only to see that “frivolous” lawsuit thrown out of court in 2022.
Lindell’s LindellTV reported on his trial, calling the defamation case the “Trial of the Century.”
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