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June 04, 2025 11:01 AM UTC

"MyPillow Guy's" On-Camera Lies, Courtroom Denials Catch Up With Him

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by: Colorado Pols

Pillow enthusiast and defamation defendant Mike Lindell.

After months of pre-trial wrangling as eminent election denier Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell tried everything to forestall accountability in court, the defamation case from former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer against Lindell finally got underway this week, with yesterday seeing the opening testimony from Coomer explaining why he suit against Lindell is necessary for his own safety and the historical record. As the Denver Post’s Seth Klamann reports:

Attorneys for a former Dominion Voting Systems official said in court Tuesday that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s false claims about him were fueled in part by Lindell blaming the official for his banishment from conservative television.

Opening statements kicked off a trial in federal court in Denver that will decide whether Lindell defamed Eric Coomer, a former director at Dominion, when he accused Coomer of treason during Lindell’s discredited effort to undermine the results of 2020 presidential election. Coomer, who filed the suit in April 2022, is seeking damages from Lindell for the physical and emotional distress that attorneys say resulted from Lindell’s false claims.

Dominion has filed its own string of lawsuits to combat unproven allegations that it was involved in rigging the 2020 election against President Donald Trump. The company settled one lawsuit with Fox News for nearly $800 million.

Although not on trial in this particular lawsuit, Lindell’s defamatory claims against Coomer originate with the same source responsible in the other lawsuits that have been brought both by Coomer and his former employer Dominion Voting Systems–Colorado-based election conspiracy theorist Joe “America’s Hangman” Oltmann, whose fabricated account of an “Antifa conference call” in which Coomer supposedly promised to swing the election for Joe Biden was taken at face value by right-wing news outlets like Fox News who later paid hundreds of millions of dollars for their mistake.

But just as we’ve seen in previous litigation over Oltmann’s discredited claims, 9NEWS reports that Lindell’s legal defense is not expected to rest on whether any of what Oltmann alleged and Lindell repeated and amplified was in fact true:

Mike Lindell’s attorneys will not present evidence that the 2020 election was rigged, they say, because it doesn’t matter whether that’s true. They told the jury during opening statements that the only thing that matters in this case is whether Lindell believed what he was saying was true when he was saying it.

“It’s just words. All Mike Lindell did was talk,” defense attorney Chris Kachouroff said. [Pols emphasis] “Mike believed that he was telling the truth.”

Given they’re suing Lindell for defamation, Coomer’s attorneys disagreed. They told the jury Lindell’s statements about Coomer — which included calling him “disgusting” and “treasonous” and a traitor to the U.S. — traumatized him and left him in fear for his life.

The problem of course is that although Lindell’s attorneys are not willing to defend any of his crackpot allegations in court, the Dominion Voting Systems conspiracy theory is still canonical among 2020 election deniers up to and including President Donald Trump personally. There’s a massive disconnect between what Trump loyalist election deniers say in court to defend themselves and what they say outside court, which remains 100% game face certainty that despite the lack of any evidence they were right all along, the 2020 election was stolen, and Eric Coomer is in fact the Satanic traitor they said he was back in 2020.

This morning, it appears that disconnect just about placed Mike Lindell in contempt of court, as 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark updates:

As Will Sommer reports for Bulwark, Lindell’s commentary outside the courtroom could pose a legitimate problem for his defense inside the courtroom:

Before jury selection kicked off on Monday, Lindell held a press conference outside the courthouse during which he revealed that he isn’t exactly repentant about promoting conspiracy theories. Lindell was joined by several supporters, many of them with signs calling for the release of imprisoned Lindell pal and fellow election-denier Tina Peters. Asked who controls the voting-machine algorithms that determine elections, Lindell had one idea: “Satan.”

…Coomer first sued Lindell and his companies in 2022, for an unspecified amount of money. And unlike other media figures who have been sued over election-fraud claims, Lindell has refused to repent or admit he was wrong. In fact, he is poised to take the stand.

…On Monday, I asked Lindell whether he really planned to take the witness stand.

“Of course!” Lindell texted me from the courtroom, making sure to include the fact that he was, indeed, in the courtroom. “There is only one truth!”

But that’s not what Lindell’s lawyers say! Since Lindell’s defense rests on the idea that he sincerely believes the mountain of incoherent garbage he has assembled to support his theories that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, it’s possible that his attorneys will indeed let Lindell take the stand and make a bloody ass of himself. As bad as that would be for Lindell’s already nonexistent credibility, we can see how that spectacle might help convince a jury that Lindell’s antics, while pitiable, are perhaps not legally actionable. Or, he could alienate the jury with his angry delivery of raving defamatory nonsense and help deliver a huge judgment for Eric Coomer.

Either way, for everyone except for the most diehard election conspiracy believer, this whole spectacle is more proof that the lie no Republican can admit today–even if they freely did in 2021–is still the biggest lie in modern American history. Dominion and Eric Coomer fight for their own good names, but also on behalf of a wrongly maligned democratic process that will need upholding long after Donald Trump is gone.

The future of American democracy depends on Trump and Lindell losing this battle for the judgment of history.

Fortunately for history, the truth is up against a bunch of crackpots.

One thought on ““MyPillow Guy’s” On-Camera Lies, Courtroom Denials Catch Up With Him”

Marla Robbinson says:

June 4, 2025 at 11:20 am

Oh, I see now, Lindell was “triggered” so-much-so that he planned out and openly orchestrated the undermining of American democracy for free publicity and to suck on an orange mushroom substituting one addiction for another.

That’ll sit well with a judge.

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