The company is seeking approximately $ 1.3 billion in damages for Lindell’s numerous baseless public statements from former President Donald Trump’s allies that Dominion manipulated his machines in favor of Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election.
The 115-page lawsuit filed Monday in Washington, DC, cites Lindell’s media appearances and social media posts insisting on what they called the ‘Big Lie’ about Dominion’s machines – including a two-hour movie that aired on OAN and full of lies about voting irregularities.
In the lawsuit, Dominion writes that Lindell “sells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows” citing promotional discount codes on the MyPillow website, including “FightforTrump,” “Proof,” and “QAnon.”
“Despite repeated warnings and attempts to share the facts with him, Mr. Lindell has continued to maliciously spread false claims about Dominion, giving empty assurances each time that he would come up with overwhelming evidence,” said Dominion CEO John Poulos in a statement Monday. .
Poulos added that Lindell’s statements “caused irreparable damage to Dominion’s good reputation and threatened the safety of our employees and customers.”
Lindell promised his followers evidence, but instead delivered “absolute bullshit and bogus documents coming from the dark corners of the internet,” Dominion’s legal counsel Megan Meier, partner at Clare Locke LLP, said in a statement, adding that Lindell “must be held accountable for defaming Dominion and undermining the integrity of our electoral system while benefiting from it at the same time.”
The lawsuit promises that “by discovery, Dominion will prove there is no real evidence to support the Big Lie. Dominion is taking this action to defend the rights of the company, to recover damages, to issue a narrowly tailored warrant. to stand up for itself and its employees, and to dissuade Lindell and MyPillow from further profiting at the expense of Dominion. ”