MyPillow's Mike Lindell ordered to pay $2.3m in voting machine defamation trial

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Source: The Guardian

Mon 16 Jun 2025 19.14 EDT
Last modified on Mon 16 Jun 2025 19.15 EDT


MyPillow CEO, Mike Lindell, has been ordered to pay $2.3m to a former employee of a voting machine company who sued him for defamation, adding to the legal woes the prominent election denier faces.

A Colorado jury decided the case and amount after Eric Coomer, who formerly worked in security and voting technology strategy for the voting machine company Dominion, filed a lawsuit against Lindell and a host of others who spread conspiracy theories that upended his life. Coomer’s attorneys had originally requested $62.7m.

Lindell testified in the case, saying he didn’t make any knowingly false comments about Coomer. He said Coomer’s claims about him led to him being unable to go on Newsmax shows – the rightwing outlet was also sued by Coomer and settled. Lindell also told one of Coomer’s lawyers that he was “part of the biggest coverup of the biggest crime the world has ever seen,” according to the Associated Press. “I believe what you did to me and MyPillow was criminal,” he said to the lawyer.

The lawsuit came after rumors spread about Coomer online following the 2020 election, which Donald Trump lost. A rightwing podcaster in Colorado, Joe Oltmann, claimed a man who identified himself as “Eric the Dominion guy” had been on an “antifa” call before the election where he said: “Don’t worry about the election, Trump is not gonna win. I made fucking sure of that.” Oltmann has not provided any evidence of the call. Oltmann, who also faces a lawsuit from Coomer, testified in the case and continued to say Coomer was on the supposed call, which he insisted did actually happen.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/mypillow-mike-lindell-defamation-trial

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Big news dump going on, nationally and internationally.

[Permanut]

1. He says that what was done to him and MyPillow was criminal..

Sources say that he will present the evidence next Tuesday.

[JoseBalow]

2. LOL!

[Initech]

3. Go Nazi, go broke!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Too bad pillow humper

[cadoman]

5. his rhetoric and speculation did foundational damage to trust in our election security

$2.3 million does not begin to address it.

[riversedge]

6. .... He was also served with a new lawsuit outside the Denver courthouse, this one from FedEx over $9m in unpaid fees,

tsk tsk


Throughout the trial, Lindell’s online TV platform has covered the case and sought to sell its products as a way to help Lindell. Lindell is in financial trouble, he has said repeatedly. He is also being sued by Dominion and Smartmatic, another voting machine company. Lindell has struggled to pay for his legal defense – a law firm that was representing him sought to be removed from his cases because he owed them millions of dollars and couldn’t pay, the Star Tribune reported. He was also served with a new lawsuit outside the Denver courthouse, this one from FedEx over $9m in unpaid fees, according to a local TV reporter there.

[DiverDave]

7. This fucken guy.

He thought the faker-in-chief was going to pull him out of the fire.
I've never met rump, but even I could see he was a liar.
And I can't get the words "I have to PAY for FedEx??? Out of my head.

[ck4829]

8. Where is Mike Lindell's 850-year-old voter?

What was the name of the 850-year-old voter, Mike?

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-vote-850-years-old-mypillow-1636918