Mike Lindell just got slammed with a $2.3 million verdict — but he’s calling it a win.
On Monday, a federal jury in Colorado ruled that the MyPillow CEO defamed Eric Coomer, a former executive at Dominion Voting Systems, by spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. The jury ordered Lindell to personally pay $2 million in damages and another $300,000 in punitive damages.
But instead of admitting defeat, Lindell went on Steve Bannon’s War Room show and declared victory.
“We’re the first ones that went all the way to jury trial,” Lindell told Bannon. “And we won. It was unanimous all the way, every single thing that they, when they brought up MyPillow, 100% victory.”
He celebrated the fact that MyPillow, the company he founded and leads, was not held responsible for his actions. “I am very happy that My Pillow was 100% vindicated,” Lindell told reporters.
But Bannon pushed back, reminding Lindell that appeals are rarely successful. “Appeals are only on points of law,” Bannon said. “What specifically in points of law are your attorneys involved — pointing to that because appeals almost, it almost never gets appealed, overturned at an appellate level.”
Lindell admitted he didn’t get to present everything he wanted in court. “There was so many things they didn’t let in that I wanted to bring in that my lawyers wanted to bring in,” he said. “Every time that happened, I’d go into kind of a panic… this is all part of the appeal process.”
Despite the court’s ruling, Lindell kept insisting, “I feel very much that it was a great victory for us in our country.”
The case was brought by Coomer, who said Lindell’s repeated false claims — including calling him a traitor — destroyed his career in the elections field and led to threats against his life.
Lindell, a close Trump ally, has spent years pushing debunked claims that Dominion’s machines helped rig the 2020 election for Joe Biden. Those claims have been tossed out by courts across the country, and Dominion has already won massive defamation settlements from other Trump backers.
Lindell is still facing a separate Dominion lawsuit in Washington, D.C., where the company is suing him directly for defamation.
Even with a $2.3 million judgment hanging over him, Lindell isn’t backing down. He vowed to appeal and said the case was just an attempt to silence him. “I’m not going to stop fighting,” he said.
Coomer’s attorneys did not respond to requests for comment.
Watch Lindell’s remarks below:
