June 16, 2025 07:02 PM UTC

"MyPillow Guy" Mike Lindell Liable As Hell For Defamation

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Denver Post’s Seth Klamann and Nick Coltrain report, get ready for a new MyPillow discount code: INEEDTWOMILLIONBUCKS.

Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and one of the most prominent conspiracy theorists about the 2020 presidential election, defamed a former Dominion Voting Systems director when he called him “treasonous,” a Colorado jury found Monday.

The jury ruled that Lindell and his media company, Frankspeech, must pay $2.3 million in damages for his attacks on Eric Coomer, the former director of security for Denver-based Dominion. The jury found that three of the 10 cited attacks leveled by Lindell or published on his platform amounted to defamation.

It’s a verdict a long time coming:

Coomer sued Lindell in U.S. District Court in Denver in April 2022. Coomer alleged the MyPillow CEO, who is a prominent backer of President Donald Trump and the president’s false claims that he won the 2020 election, defamed him when he called him a traitor, and claimed to have proof to that effect — in effect, directly accusing Coomer of committing a crime.

Lindell’s defense relied on the premise that Lindell truly believed the defamatory things he said about former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer, at one point pleading that Lindell only possesses a “high school education” and was “doing the best he could” with his limited capacities. This is of course entirely opposite of what Lindell says outside court, where he remains a self-professed expert on the very-much “rigged” 2020 elections. The judgment awarded by the jury was in fairness smaller than the amount originally sought by Coomer, and Lindell’s company MyPillow was removed from the suit, leaving Coomer to collect his judgment from Lindell personally.

Although at one point Lindell had millions in disposable income to fund Tina Peters’ unsuccessful legal defense and to fly Colorado’s election conspiracy set around like celebrities, Lindell told a judge presiding over another case in April that he has no money left to pay judgments or even for his own legal expenses. That means Coomer’s next challenge will be to collect on his two million in a form other than Lindell’s private stash of pillows.

The takeaway for the record is that just like the defamation suits against Dominion conspiracy theory progenitor Joe Oltmann, in a court of law these jokers don’t even try to defend the “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen–the lie that President Donald Trump still believes and acts upon–on the merits.

Their defense is that yes, they really are stupid enough to believe this shit. Outside court, the same professed ignorance becomes a battle cry.

The only thing that can make the madness stop is more multimillion-dollar verdicts. As many as it takes.