MyPillow CEO Hit With $1.3B Suit Over Election Fraud ‘Big Lie’
Dorothy Atkins, 23 February 2021
Dominion Voting Systems hit MyPillow Inc. and its CEO Mike Lindell with a $1.3 billion defamation suit in D.C. federal court Monday, accusing Lindell of knowingly perpetuating a “big lie” by falsely claiming that the voting-machine maker rigged the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden.
In a two-count, 115-page complaint, Dominion alleged that Lindell has intentionally marketed his pillows to supporters of former President Donald Trump while publicly accusing the Denver-based Dominion of rigging the election in favor of Biden in order to beef up his pillow company’s sales.
“Lindell — a talented salesman and former professional card counter — sells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows,” the suit says.
Even months after election officials, independent audits, security experts, then-Attorney General Bill Barr and multiple Republican Party leaders rebuffed Lindell’s election fraud claims, he continued to falsely allege that Dominion’s voting machines had been manipulated during the election to disfavor Trump, citing purported evidence that Lindell “deliberately misrepresented, manufactured and cherry-picked,” the suit says.
