MyPillow boss Mike Lindell loses $2.3m defamation case over false 2020 election fraud claims

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Mike Lindell, the chief executive of MyPillow and staunch supporter of Donald Trump, has lost a defamation case brought by a former employee of a voting equipment company. A jury in Denver, Colorado, ordered Mr Lindell to pay $2.3m (£1.7m) to Eric Coomer, a former security and product strategy director at Dominion Voting Systems.

 

Lindell falsely accused Mr Coomer of helping to rig the 2020 vote, which was won by Joe Biden. During the two-week trial, Lindell stuck by baseless claims that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. Dominion itself has filed cases against several Trump allies who it accuses of spreading lies about the company's voting machines.

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Mr Coomer filed federal lawsuits in 2022 against Mr Lindell and two of his companies, My Pillow, Inc and Lindell TV, saying their actions had caused his reputation to be "irreparably tarnished".  He "now endures frequent credible death threats and the burden of being made the face of an imagined criminal conspiracy of unprecedented scope in American history", his lawsuit said.

 

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BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2mnyj0ev2o

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Jury finds MyPillow founder defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company

June 17, 2025

 

"DENVER (AP) — A federal jury in Colorado on Monday found that one of the nation’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company after the 2020 presidential election.

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The jury found that two of Lindell’s statements about Eric Coomer, the former security and product strategy director at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, including calling him a traitor, were defamatory. It ordered Lindell and his online media platform, formerly known as Frankspeech, to pay Coomer $2.3 million in damages, far less than the $62.7 million Coomer had asked for to help send a message to discourage attacks on election workers.

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Reviews, recounts and audits in the battleground states where Trump contested his loss in 2020 all affirmed Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. Trump’s attorney general at the time said there was no evidence of widespread fraud, and Trump and his allies lost dozens of court cases seeking to overturn the result."

 

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Associated Press

https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindell-dominion-voting-defamation-2020-election-af473792a6e395d86ea6ca0f97742c3f

 

 

 

 

 

 

[CallumWK]

I* have such a feeling that Mr Lindell and his associated companies will file for chapter 11 in the not so distant future

[Tug]

Couldn’t happen to better person I hope he becomes homeless and gets back on the crack pipe serves him right!

[Quentin Zen]

snake.  This won't do anything to him.   He said he was once worth 60 million, then broke, gofundme stuff, etc..........i am 100% sure he has millions hidden away somewhere.   Don't think he'll be in Pattaya eating 10 baht rice and counting change.  We hope that, but we won't get that.  Drugs could ruin this guy, sure.  Health problems, sure.  But he's not going broke over this.   You miight think he's broke with some headlines, but I guarantee he's living in a better place that you and eating better than you....and has more money.  

 

gotta ask for jail.

[JAG]

I suppose he will just have to bite the pillow and accept it...

 

Hat, coat, taxi, I'm off then!

[blaze master]

16 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

.i am 100% sure he has millions hidden away somewhere.   

 

Stuffed in a pillow maybe ?

[Harrisfan]

7 minutes ago, JAG said:

I suppose he will just have to bite the pillow and accept it...

 

Hat, coat, taxi, I'm off then!

Like you every night 

[FlorC]

If only there was a Dominion whistleblower.