In a major court victory a judge in Minneapolis has ruled a lawsuit filed by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell against Dominion Voting Systems can move forward.
In February Dominion filed suit against both Lindell and his company for defamation over comments Lindell made about the rigging of the 2020 election.
Today legal representatives for #DominionVotingSystems filed a defamation complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against My Pillow and its CEO, Mike Lindell. The court filing follows several retraction notices and warnings about legal action.
— Dominion Voting (@dominionvoting) February 22, 2021
“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,” the complaint read.
In April Lindell countersued.
Mike Lindell states that the Supreme Court will rule 9-0 in his favor. He also states that Donald Trump will be the president and that he is the president right now. pic.twitter.com/yc2AtdXPNo
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) June 25, 2021
“This is a free-speech case. This is a First Amendment case,” Lindell said at the time. MyPillow accused Dominion of waging a “illegal campaign to punish and silence their critics.”
“MyPillow has not engaged in discussion about the 2020 election,” the suit read.
On Monday the judge in the case, in a major win for Lindell and his firm, ruled the case could proceed.
“That is a huge ruling,” Lindell said on Steve Bannon’s Warroom broadcast yesterday. “That they used lawfare, basically, against MyPillow and attacked MyPillow for no reason and nobody is reporting this, Steve. Nobody. It’s like crickets.”
“Not even our local news here in Minneapolis. You would think that would be big news, but it’s got to stay in Minnesota. And it’s moving forward. Now I can be very aggressive with Dominion.”