Dominion Voting Systems on Monday filed a $ 1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Minnesota-based founder and CEO MyPillow, and said Mike Lindell he falsely accused the companionand to call the 2020 presidential election.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia, alleges that Lindell ignored repeated warnings from Dominion, a voting technology company that has filed similar lawsuits against Donald Trump’s lawyers, Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
Dominion accuses Lindell of repeatedly explaining what the lawsuit marks the “Big Lie” that the company used its technology to steal the Trump election.
“There is no amount of money that can repair the damage caused by these lies, which are easily refuted. Hundreds of documented audits and counting have shown that Dominion machines counted the votes accurately. We hope to prove these facts in a court of law. justice “. says the demand.
Lindell says he welcomes the lawsuit
Lindell, known as the “MyPillow Guy” of his TV commercials, told The Associated Press that he welcomed the lawsuit and said the discovery process would prove him right.
“It’s a very good day. I’ve been wishing they would finally sue,” said Lindell, who went to the White House to promote his theories in the last days of the Trump administration.
This was said by Lindell, a staunch supporter of Trump Sara Cook of CBS News last month: “I want the entire American population and the world to see the horrible things these machines are capable of (domain voting) and what they did in our country and what: they allow other countries to steal our elections and just hijack the our choice.
There has been no widespread election fraud, which several election officials across the country, including former Trump Attorney General William Barr, have confirmed. The Republican governors of Arizona and Georgia, key states on the battlefield crucial to President Joe Biden’s victory, also confirmed the integrity of the election in their states.
Almost all of the legal challenges Trump and his allies were dismissed by the judges, including two thrown by the Supreme Court, which includes three judges nominated for Trump.
Twitter in January permanently banned Lindell of the platform after he continued to claim that Trump had won the presidential election. Twitter said it banned him because of “repeated violations” of its civic integrity policy.
Lindell felt obscured by being repeatedly accused in the lawsuit of telling the “Big Lie,” noting that the expression was coined by Adolf Hitler. “The big lie here is the big lie,” Lindell said. “They’re the big lie.”
Lindell was on the sidelines of a long video that expanded his claims that he released on Feb. 5 and said he recently released a 20-minute version.
This is the third defamation lawsuit Dominion has filed against his accusers. At a news conference, Dominion CEO John Poulos said “it’s by no means the last.” He said the company was also studying the actions of various news organizations after the election.
“Despite repeated warnings and efforts to share the facts with him, Mr Lindell has continued to maliciously spread false claims about Dominion, increasingly giving empty assurances that he would present overwhelming evidence,” Poulos said in a statement. “These claims have caused irreparable damage to Dominion’s good reputation and threatened the safety of our employees and customers.”
“Lying” to increase profits?
Poulos and Dominion’s attorney, Megan Meier, alleged that Lindell did not believe the election was stolen from Trump. “I knew lying about Trump’s loss would be good for MyPillow’s end result,” Meier said.
They also discussed Lindell’s claims that he had lost money to stay out of his claims, and said they hoped to examine MyPillow’s finances as part of the court proceedings.
MyPillow’s defamatory marketing campaign (with promotional codes like “FightforTrump,” “45,” “Proof,” and “QAnon”) has increased MyPillow sales by 30-40% and continues to trick people into redirecting his election outrage at the purchase of pillows, “the lawsuit alleges.
Lindell said MyPillow achieved a brief increase in sales. But he said there are now more than 20 retailers he dropped his products, including Bed Bath & Beyond and Kohl’s, and noted that Twitter permanently banned him and MyPillow.
“I’d love to go to court tomorrow with Dominion,” Lindell said.