The company is demanding about $ 1.3 billion in damages for Lindell’s numerous unfounded public statements by former President Donald Trump’s allies that Dominion set up his machines in favor of Joe Biden in the 2020 US presidential election.
The 115-page lawsuit, filed Monday in Washington, DC, cites Lindell’s media appearances and social media posts calling the ‘Big Lie’ about Dominion’s machines, including a two-hour film aired on OAN. and was filled with lies about the mood. irregularities.
In the lawsuit, Dominion writes that Lindell ‘sells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows’, referring to promotional discount codes on MyPillow’s website, including ‘FightforTrump’, ‘Proof’ and ‘QAnon’.
“Despite repeated warnings and attempts to share the facts with him, Mr. Lindell maliciously continued to spread false allegations about Dominion, each time giving empty assurances that he would come forward with overwhelming evidence,” John said. Dominion CEO Poulos said in a statement Monday. .
Poulos added that Lindell’s statements “do Dominion’s good reputation irreparable damage and threaten the safety of our employees and customers.”
Lindell promised his followers proof, but instead he “delivered absolute nonsense and fake documents obtained from the dark corners of the Internet,” Dominion’s legal adviser Megan Meier, a partner at Clare Locke LLP, said in a statement. statement said, adding that Lindell ‘should be held accountable for the blasphemy of Dominion and the undermining of the integrity of our electoral system while benefiting from it. ‘
The court promise promises that Dominion will prove by discovery that there is no real evidence to support the Big Lie. Dominion performs this action to justify the rights of the company, to recover damages, to seek a decisive order, to stand up for itself and its employees, and to prevent Lindell and MyPillow from making further profits at Dominion’s expense. ‘