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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDominion 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.pdfUS 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 Trumps 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 Lindella talented salesman and former
professional card countersells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows. MyPillows defamatory marketing campaignwith promo codes like FightforTrump, 45, Proof, and QAnonhas 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, Georgias Republican Governor Brian Kemp, Georgias Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Colorados former Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams, and others have rebutted Lindells false claims about Dominion.
3. Most importantly though, paper ballots are the hard evidence conclusively disproving Lindells 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 Lindells alliesincluding Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood, and otherswas 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, Lindella multimillionaire with a nearly unlimited ability to broadcast his preferred messages on conservative mediawhined 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 companys 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 Dominions expense.
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 Trumps 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 Lindella talented salesman and former
professional card countersells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows. MyPillows defamatory marketing campaignwith promo codes like FightforTrump, 45, Proof, and QAnonhas 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, Georgias Republican Governor Brian Kemp, Georgias Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Colorados former Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams, and others have rebutted Lindells false claims about Dominion.
3. Most importantly though, paper ballots are the hard evidence conclusively disproving Lindells 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 Lindells alliesincluding Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood, and otherswas 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, Lindella multimillionaire with a nearly unlimited ability to broadcast his preferred messages on conservative mediawhined 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 companys 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 Dominions expense.
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Dominion Voting Systems files $1.3 B suit against Mike Lindell and MyPillow (Original Post)
brooklynite
Feb 2021
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NoMoreRepugs
(9,260 posts)1. Have to love the legal process available to go after
BatShitCrazedLoons for LYING for profit at someone elses expense.
LakeVermilion
(1,022 posts)2. So Mike isn't really a Trump supporter...
It turns out that he's just marketing his pillows to the batshit crazies that Trump is fleecing. Who knew?