Jury finds that the founder of MyPillow has defamed a former employee of the voting equipment company

DENVER – A Federal Jury of Colorado revealed on Monday that one of the most important elections in the country’s conspiracy in the country, Mike Lindell, the founder of Mypillow, defamed a former employee for a leading voting company after the 2020 presidential election.

The employee, Eric Coomer, continued After Lindell called him a traitor and the accusations about him flying the elections were broadcast on the Lindel online media platform.

Coomer was the director of the security and product strategy at Dominion Voting Systems, based in Denver, whose voting machines have become the target of conspiracy theories developed among the allies of President Donald Trump, who wrongly continues that his loss for Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 was due to general fraud.

Dominion won a regulation of $ 787 million In a defamation trial, he filed against Fox News about his dissemination of false complaints against the company and has another trial against the Conservative Network Newsmax.

Newsmax apologized To be co -trained in 2021 for having broadcast false allegations against him.

Coomer declared during the Lindell trial of two weeks that his career and his life had been destroyed by declarations. His lawyers said Lindell knew that the statements were lies, or had barely transmitted them without knowing if they were true.

Lindell lawyers denied complaints and said his online platform, formerly known as Frankspeech, was not responsible for the declarations made by others.

Lindell said he had gone to the trial to draw attention to the need to get rid of electronic voting machines that have been targeted in a network of conspiracy theories. He said that it was worth around 60 million dollars before starting to express themselves about the 2020 elections and that it is now $ 10 million in debt.

The criticisms, recovery and audits of the battlefield declared where Trump challenged his loss in 2020, all claimed the victory of the Democrat Joe Biden. Trump’s prosecutor general said at the time that there was no proof of general fraud, and Trump and his allies lost dozens of judicial cases aimed at canceling the result.

Lindell remained by his false affirmations that the 2020 presidential election was stolen during the trial, but did not call any expert to present evidence of his allegations.

Lindell said his convictions that the 2020 elections had been tainted by fraud had been influenced by the gaze of the Documentary HBO 2020 “Kill Chain” and by the views of the former national security advisor of Trump, Michael Flynn. In an interview for an documentary that Lindell carried out in 2021, Flynn said that foreign interference would occur in the American elections, and Lindell said that he had no reason to doubt the complaint since Flynn had worked for the two political parties in intelligence.

Lindell has moved away from a story by a Colorado podcaster who said he had heard a conference on the anti-Fascist antifa group before the 2020 elections. The podcast said that on the call, someone named Eric de Dominion said he would make sure Trump would not win, a story that was told about Frankspeech during an event in 2021. that he had only learned that during the trial.

Lindell said he had never accused co -commers of fueling the elections, but he said he was upset because he said Newsmax had prevented him from being able to go on to talk about voting machines after he apologized to Coomer. Coomer denied that there was such an agreement to block Lindell under his agreement with the network.

Coomer’s lawyers tried to show how their customer’s life was devastated by conspiracy theories spreading over him. Lindell was relatively late to seize Coomer, not mentioning it before February 2021, long after his name was broadcast by other supporters of Trump.

Coomer said conspiracy theories cost him his work, his mental health and the life he had built and said Lindell’s statements were the most painful of all. He specifically underlined a statement on May 9, 2021, when Lindell described what he thought that Coomer had done as “betrayal”.

Lindell’s lawyers argued that the reputation of Coomer was already in tatters when Lindell mentioned. They said it was partly because of Coomer’s own Facebook publications to denigrate Trump, that the former Dominion employee admitted was “hyperbolic” and had been a mistake.