A DENVER JURY FOUND MYPILLOW CEO MIKE LINDELL LIABLE OF DEFAMATION - 2 mins.

MIKE LINDELL - 6-16-2025-A DENVER jury found MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell liable in the defamation case brought by former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer - 2 mins. MIKE LINDELL- DENVER 9 NEWS 6-16-2025.
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Author: Marissa Solomon, Marilyn Moore, Kyle Clark - Published: 4:49 PM MDT June 16, 2025
Updated: 10:13 PM MDT June 16, 2025 -
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DENVER — MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is liable for two statements defaming former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer, a federal jury decided Monday.

Lindell made several claims that Dominion Voting Systems and Coomer rigged the 2020 presidential election over the years, but the jury found Lindell himself was responsible for only two of them: One made on May 9, 2021, and another on April 6, 2022.

Lindell owes Coomer $440,500 in combined economic and non-economic damages. The jury did not find that Lindell had acted recklessly, and similarly did not find he inflicted emotional distress or participate in a civil conspiracy against Coomer.

The jury found Lindell's company FrankSpeech liable for three statements made on the platform and found the company did both act recklessly and inflict emotional distress on Coomer.

FrankSpeech owes Coomer $1,865,500 in combined economic, non-economic and punitive damages. Lindell's company MyPillow wasn't found liable at all.

In total, Coomer is coming away with a fraction of what he asked for: A total of about $2.3 million as opposed to $62.7 million. Only $300,000 of that is in punitive damages, which are meant to punish a defendant and serve as an example to others.

“Thankfully the jury saw this for what it is," Coomer said in a statement through his attorneys. "Mike Lindell not only hurt me with his baseless lies- he hurt the American people and the democratic process. Every major network who published this defamation has issued a retraction and an apology. Hopefully Mike Lindell, listening to a jury of his peers, will finally start being honest with his followers. I am now one step closer to putting my life back together and thank the jury for their thoughtfulness and service.”

According to Lindell, the verdict was a win for free speech.

"MyPillow is 100% vindicated," Lindell said outside the courthouse. "It's a huge breakthrough for free speech, our First Amendment rights."

He also said the jury's decision is not going to stop him from speaking out against election rigging, and more specifically from making the claims he's been making all along.

"You would think I'm not going to tell them that they're blocking our elections from getting secure? I will keep I will keep up the fight," Lindell said. "You know, am I going to say, 'Let's melt them [voting machines] down and turn them into prison bars?' Yeah, probably."

While Coomer's attorneys said they were thrilled with the verdict, they also said they have mixed emotions.

“He’s still going to be looking over his shoulder,” attorney Charlie Cain said of his client.

Much of the plaintiff's case focused on how much harm Lindell's statements did to election workers and trust in elections as a whole, not just what happened to Coomer.

“We want to encourage our county clerks, the poll workers, we want to encourage them with this verdict that we’ve got their back,” Cain said.

While Coomer's attorneys had asked for $40 million in punitive damages for that purpose – to defend clerks – they only got $300,000.

“I would blame the lawyers, I could have done a better job at closing," Cain said. "We got the judgement against Lindell. We got the judgement against FrankSpeech. He’s not walking out of this courtroom scott free.”

Coomer ally and head of the Colorado County Clerks Association Matt Crane said it's not enough.

"What election officials have had to go through fighting these lies over the past 4.5 years has been something else," Crane said. "It's led to death threats, harassment. One of our pregnant clerks in Colorado a couple years ago, her life was threatened along with her unborn child. I can't overstate the impact these lies have had, so to see only $300,000 come for that part of it is incredibly disappointing and quite frankly disturbing."

The jury of eight began deliberations on Friday after two weeks of testimony from various experts, political and politically active figures from Colorado and across the nation.

Lindell's defense did not present evidence that the 2020 election was rigged or that Coomer or Dominion Voting Systems had engaged in any criminal behavior related to the election, because they argued that it doesn't matter whether Lindell's election rigging theories were true or false.

“All that matters is whether he believed them,” Lindell’s attorney, Jennifer DeMaster, told the jury during closing arguments Friday.

Lindell’s team argued his statements were protected free speech.

Coomer’s attorney, Charlie Cain, told jurors in closing arguments that Lindell’s election rigging claims did personal harm to Coomer and did damage “to the entire country.”

Cain said that Lindell had failed to do basic research on his claims, which made his statements on Coomer both reckless and defamatory. Among other claims, Lindell said Coomer committed treason and was going to prison for election-related crimes.

“Mr. Lindell had done no investigation into Mr. Coomer at the time,” Cain said. Cain told the jury Lindell's claims not only harmed his client but also did damage "to the entire country."

The plaintiff's team argued Lindell used his companies, MyPillow and FrankSpeech, to amplify his damaging claims about Dominion Voting Systems and Coomer.

Coomer's legal team asked the jury to award $40 million in punitive damages against Lindell and his companies. Lindell testified in the trial that he spent $40 million of his personal fortune investigating and publicizing his election rigging claims.

The plaintiff's team also asked for $2.7 million in economic damages and $20 million in non-economic damages. Dr. Doug Bania, an economic damages expert, testified that it would cost $2,762,243 to repair Eric Coomer's reputation based on a cost-per-click model.
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