CEO of MyPillow Mike Lindell at a rally in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, April 5, 2022.
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The Supreme Court on Monday shot down MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s latest attempt to dodge a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit from voting technology company Dominion.
Dominion sued Lindell and his home goods company in February 2021, alleging that he defamed them when he hurled false conspiracy theories about the company’s role in the 2020 election.
The Supreme Court’s decision leaves in place a lower court ruling allowing the lawsuit to move forward.
Dominion maintains that Lindell, who is an ardent supporter of Donald Trump, continues to push the embattled former president’s baseless election fraud theories as a way to sell more pillows.
Meanwhile, Lindell’s loyalty to Trump continues exacting a heavy toll.
After his phone was confiscated by FBI agents investigating Lindell’s alleged attempts at discrediting the 2020 election, Lindell estimated that he’d lost millions of dollars in financing from lenders who “don’t want to get canceled.”
Lindell has reportedly spent half of his estimated $50 million fortune trumpeting Trump’s election theories, and pumped around $10 million into creating MAGA-friendly social media hub Frank after getting banned from Twitter for spreading disinformation.
In addition to counter suing Dominion, Lindell announced that he planned to file a class action lawsuit against all voting machines while stumping for Trump-backed election denier and gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in Arizona.
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“We’re going to get rid of these machines once and for all for any election in history,” Lindell told rally goers supporting Lake’s bid.
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