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brooklynite

(93,878 posts)
Mon Feb 22, 2021, 10:29 AM Feb 2021

Dominion Voting Systems files $1.3 B suit against Mike Lindell and MyPillow

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.227759/gov.uscourts.dcd.227759.1.0.pdf

US DOMINION, INC., DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS, INC., and DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS CORPORATION
c/o Cogency Global
1025 Vermont Ave, NW, Ste. 1130
Washington, DC 20005,

Plaintiffs,

v.

MY PILLOW, INC. and MICHAEL J. LINDELL
343 E 82nd Str #102
Chaska, MN 55318,

Defendants.

COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL

1. After hitting the jackpot with Donald Trump’s endorsement for MyPillow and after a million-dollar bet on Fox News ads had paid out handsome returns, Michael Lindell exploited another chance to boost sales: marketing MyPillow to people who would tune in and attend rallies to hear Lindell tell the “Big Lie” that Dominion had stolen the 2020 election. As when MyPillow previously faced legal action for deceptive marketing campaigns, Lindell knew there was no real “evidence” supporting his claims. And he is well aware of the independent audits and paper ballot recounts conclusively disproving the Big Lie. But Lindell—a talented salesman and former
professional card counter—sells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows. MyPillow’s defamatory marketing campaign—with promo codes like “FightforTrump,” “45,” “Proof,” and “QAnon”—has increased MyPillow sales by 30-40% and continues duping people into redirecting their election-lie outrage into pillow purchases.

2. Bipartisan election officials, judges, 59 election security experts, Attorney General Bill Barr, Trump appointee Chris Krebs, Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Colorado’s former Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams, and others have rebutted Lindell’s false claims about Dominion.

3. Most importantly though, paper ballots are the hard evidence conclusively disproving Lindell’s claims. If the vote tallies in Dominion machines had been manipulated, the machine tallies would not match the number of votes on the paper ballots. In fact, they do match, as independent audits and hand recounts have repeatedly proven. The contrary “evidence” put forward by Lindell’s allies—including Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood, and others—was deliberately misrepresented, manufactured, cherry-picked, and sourced from con artists and conspiracy theorists who were judicially determined to be “wholly unreliable.” Lindell knows all of this because Dominion wrote to him multiple times, put him on formal written notice of the facts, and told him that Dominion employees were receiving death threats because of the lies.

4. Instead of retracting his lies, Lindell—a multimillionaire with a nearly unlimited ability to broadcast his preferred messages on conservative media—whined that he was being “censored” and “attacked” and produced a “docu-movie” featuring shady characters and fake documents sourced from dark corners of the internet.

5. Through discovery, Dominion will prove that there is no real evidence supporting the Big Lie. Dominion brings this action to vindicate the company’s rights, to recover damages, to seek a narrowly tailored injunction, to stand up for itself and its employees, and to stop Lindell and MyPillow from further profiting at Dominion’s expense.
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Dominion Voting Systems files $1.3 B suit against Mike Lindell and MyPillow (Original Post) brooklynite Feb 2021 OP
Have to love the legal process available to go after NoMoreRepugs Feb 2021 #1
So Mike isn't really a Trump supporter... LakeVermilion Feb 2021 #2

NoMoreRepugs

(9,260 posts)
1. Have to love the legal process available to go after
Mon Feb 22, 2021, 11:00 AM
Feb 2021

BatShitCrazedLoons for LYING for profit at someone else’s expense.

LakeVermilion

(1,022 posts)
2. So Mike isn't really a Trump supporter...
Mon Feb 22, 2021, 11:03 AM
Feb 2021

It turns out that he's just marketing his pillows to the batshit crazies that Trump is fleecing. Who knew?

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