My Pillow owner hit hard in another major legal settlement

Mike Lindell, the owner of the My Pillow company, has paid dearly for his association with Donald Trump and for buying into the idea that the 2020 election was stolen.

Lindell is one of a few dozen people who backed Trump on the claim, and he was hit with several lawsuits as a result.  

One of those suits just came to fruition, and Lindell has been ordered to pay $2.3 million in a defamation case against a voting machine company.  

Too far

I get asked all the time if I think Trump won the 2020 election, and my answer is “no.” 

Now, I am not saying there were not irregularities, but everyone seems to overlook the fact that Republicans in every state investigated the 2020 election, and not a single one of those groups came out to say they found enough fraud to flip their respective states.  

If there was truly something to this, then why hasn’t someone like Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a hardcore ally of Trump’s, ever pressed for an investigation in Congress? That tells me that he does not believe Trump won, and that is what I base my answer on.

Ask me if I think a city or county election can be rigged, and I will adamantly say “Yes.” I would make the same claim for a state election.  

To that point, even in the states where fraud was found, the votes came nowhere near enough to flip the state.  

Lindell, like Rudy Giuliani, has faced personal losses over defending Trump, and his bank account is about to get hit again.  

A federal jury in Colorado sided against Lindell, ordering him to pay an employee from Dominion Voting Systems $2.3 million over several statements made by Lindell questioning the election’s integrity.  

The staffer, Eric Coomer, had his reputation challenged by Lindell’s attorneys, who cited negative posts about Trump on Coomer’s social media, stating that Lindell’s comments were protected free speech. 

The jury did not see it that way, but this was not all strawberries and whipped cream for Coomer, either.  

His initial suit sought damages of $62.7 million, so he did not even get 5% of what he had been seeking in the case, but $2.3 million is nothing to sneeze at, either.  

Lindell has not backed off his stance, stating, “I will not stop talking until we don’t have voting machines in this country.” 

The pillow mogul is reportedly millions in debt, some estimates at over $10 million, all from backing Trump’s claims that he was cheated in the 2020 election.  

Lindell’s financial woes are directly related to the many legal battles he is facing over his 2020 claims. He will only be adding to that, as he has already stated he will appeal this ruling.