‘My Pillow Guy’ Mike Lindell sticks to false claims: “You’re covering up the greatest crime this world has ever seen”

Mike Lindell, famously known as the ‘My Pillow Guy,’ has long been one of President Donald Trump’s strongest supporters. However, his dedication and insistence on peddling claims that the 2020 election was stolen from the GOP leader have led him into legal trouble.

Eric Coomer, who formerly served as the product strategy and security director at Dominion Voting Systems, accused Mike Lindell of defamation due to remarks dating back to 2021. According to The Denver Post, Lindell began to refer to Coomer’s actions as “treasonous” in 2021. However, Lindell attempted to shift the focus away from claims that his comments stemmed from a belief that the election was stolen. Instead, he asserted that his attacks on Coomer began only after the former Dominion employee filed a lawsuit against him.

Lindell appeared in a Denver court on Monday, where he continued to stick to his story that he believed that Dominion played a role in the rigging of the election, claims that have been thoroughly disproven. When testifying, Lindell denied that when he made statements about Coomer, he knew they were false, and even doubled down, accusing the Dominion executive of forming “part of the biggest crime this world has ever seen.” This defense is unlikely to help the ‘My Pillow Guy,’ as making false statements, even if one believes they are true, does not constitute a free pass from a defamation case.

Dominion’s historic win over Fox News

Lindell is not the first person or entity to be sued for defamation by Dominion and its leaders. Fox News, which also spread the lies and blamed the company for Trump’s loss, was forced to pay the largest defamation settlement in US history in 2023, costing the network $787.5 million. A statement released by Fox News following the settlement confirmed that the court had found some of the claims made by anchors on the network to be false.

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