The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the newest thing from MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to dodge a $1. 3 billion defamation lawsuit through voting technology company Dominion.
Dominion sued Lindell and his housewares in February 2021, alleging he defamed them by launching false conspiracy theories about the company’s role in the 2020 election.
The Supreme Court’s decision leaves in place a lesser judicial decision that allows the trial to continue.
Asked if Lindell’s team was disappointed with the court’s decision, Lindell’s attorney, Kurt Olsen, told Insider that the court only takes “a handful” of petitions out of the “thousands” filed.
“The fact that the Supreme Court is not satisfied with the case means nothing in terms of the merits of the action,” Olsen told Insider.
For his part, Lindell told Insider that the Supreme Court’s resolution “expected” for him, because “nothing surprises him anymore. “
“It’s just a bad decision, you know. It ends up being very expensive for me to get all this evidence for the country,” he added. He added that all the evidence he had at hand is “in Nevada” and that his team will send subpoenas to “many very important names in the coming weeks. “
In weighing Dominion’s trial, Lindell said he defended his position that they were in “one of the greatest crimes in history. “
“I can’t wait for the day to come when we found those devices and turned them into bars for criminals,” Lindell told Insider, insisting that getting rid of device corporations like Smartmatic and Dominion would ensure “free and fair elections” in the country. “It’s a shame that I’ll have to invest a lot more money, just to keep fighting this frivolous lawsuit. “
Dominion argues that Lindell, who is an ardent supporter of Donald Trump, continues to push the embattled former president’s baseless theories of voter fraud as a way to sell more pillows. The company said in a court filing in January that there is “no realistic chance” it would settle its $1. 3 billion lawsuit with Lindell, given the “devastating damage” it said he and other Trump allies had caused the company.
Meanwhile, Lindell’s loyalty to Trump continues to take a heavy toll. After FBI agents seized his phone investigating Lindell’s alleged attempts to discredit the 2020 election, Lindell estimated he had lost millions of dollars in investments from lenders that “don’t need to be canceled. “In September, Lindell sued the FBI, accusing the company of violating his “First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment” rights by seizing his phone.
Lindell reportedly spent part of his estimated $50 million fortune to promote Trump’s election theories and injected around $10 million into the creation of a MAGA-compatible social media hub, Frank Speech, after he was banned from using Twitter for spreading misinformation.
In addition to countersuing Dominion, Lindell announced she plans to file a lawsuit against all voting machines as she fights for Trump-backed Holocaust denier and Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. It attempted in April to fund nationwide lawsuits to end the use of voting machines in all 50 states, starting with Arizona.
“We’re going to get rid of those machines completely for any election in history,” Lindell told participants at the rally supporting Lake’s candidacy.