My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell Still Faces $1.3 Billion Dominion Lawsuit

SHAKOPEE, MN — Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems reached a $787 million settlement on Tuesday. But the voting machine company is not done pursuing defamation lawsuits against prominent 2020 election deniers, including Mankato, Minnesota native Mike Lindell.

Lindell, CEO of Shakopee-based My Pillow, faces a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion back in February 2021. Both Lindell and his company were named in the lawsuit.

"After hitting the jackpot with Donald Trump’s endorsement for MyPillow and after a million-dollar bet on Fox News ads had paid out handsome returns, Michael Lindell exploited another chance to boost sales: marketing MyPillow to people who would tune in and attend rallies to hear Lindell tell the 'Big Lie' that Dominion had stolen the 2020 election," the lawsuit states.

"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."

Dominion CEO John Poulos said that despite repeated warnings and efforts to share the facts with him in the months after the 2020 election, Lindell continued to maliciously spread false claims about the voting systems company.

"These claims have caused irreparable harm to Dominion’s good reputation and threatened the safety of our employees and customers," said Poulos. "Moreover, Mr. Lindell's lies have undermined trust in American democracy and tarnished the hard work of local election officials."

Dominion's legal counsel, Megan Meier noted that "Mr. Lindell advertised 'absolute proof,' but he delivered absolute nonsense and fake documents sourced from the dark corners of the internet."

Meier added that the "cartoonish evidence" Lindell offered "cannot be reconciled with any level of logic or truth."

In addition to Lindell and Fox, Dominion sued Trump adviser and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, and stations Newsmax and One America News Network.

In a separate case, Lindell must pay $5M over election lies

Lindell is already being ordered to pay out over his election conspiracies. He reportedly must pay $5 million to a software developer who successfully debunked Lindell's data related to the 2020 election.

CNN broke the news Thursday morning after it obtained the decision made by an arbitration panel.