MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed ex-Dominion Voting executive: jury

A jury has found MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, an avowed ally of President Donald Trump, defamed a former executive of a voting equipment company and awarded the executive more than $2 million in damages, The Associated Press reported Monday evening.

Lindell was accused in a lawsuit of making and amplifying false claims that Eric Coomer, a former executive at Dominion Voting Systems, helped rig the 2020 presidential election in favor of then-candidate Joe Biden. Lindell attacked Coomer as a "traitor" and baselessly accused him of stealing the election on Lindell’s online media platform FrankSpeech.

A federal jury in Colorado on Monday found that the conspiracy theorist defamed Coomer and awarded Coomer $2.3 million in damages, AP reported.

Lindell has pushed the "big lie" echoed by Trump that he lost to Biden due to widespread fraud. Dominion won a $787 million settlement in a defamation lawsuit against Fox News, which aired false claims against the company. The company has another ongoing lawsuit against the right-wing Newsmax network.

Lindell's trial feartured several headline-grabbing moments, in which he continued posting on social media about his defamation trial even after U.S. District Court Judge Nina Wang warned him not to.

Colorado activist and trial witness Joe Oltmann also accused Wang of being "a paid communist operative just before the jury delivered its decision. Additionally, Lindell appeared to be served with yet another lawsuit last week while attending this trial.