Dominion targets MyPillow's Mike Lindell with $1.3B defamation suit
By John Bowden - 02/22/21 08:01 AM EST
Dominion Voting Systems is suing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a vocal supporter of former President Trump, in a $1.3 billion defamation suit.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Lindell was named the defendant in a suit filed in Washington, D.C. federal court alleging that he harmed the company's brand by disparaging the integrity of its machines by pushing unproven claims that they were used to steal the November election from Trump.
“He is well aware of the independent audits and paper ballot recounts conclusively disproving the Big Lie,†reads the lawsuit, according to the Journal. “But Lindell...sells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows.â€
Lindell has made unproven claims about the results of the 2020 election for months and in recent weeks has produced a documentary-style video detailing the debunked allegations.
Dominion Voting systems filed a lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani last month alleging that the former New York City mayor spread numerous defamatory statements about the voting machine company while he helped lead Trump’s failed post-election legal campaign. Sidney Powell, an attorney formerly working with Trump's legal efforts to overturn election results, was targeted in separate Dominion lawsuit.
Lindell told The Daily Beast last week that he hoped Dominion would sue him as it did Powell and Giuliani so that he could obtain evidence through discovery.
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