DENVER, Colo. — A jury found Minnesota-based MyPillow promoter Mike Lindell liable for $440,000 in damages for defamations based on false allegations regarding the 2020 presidential election. The jury also found Lindell’s online television network FrankSpeech liable for $1.8 million. A former executive with Dominion Voting Systems had sought $62.7 million from Lindell for claims that Dominion rigged the 2020 election and cost Donald Trump his re-election bid. Although the federal jury found that Lindell had committed libels, it stopped short of finding recklessness – which is required legally for full-blown guilty verdicts in what’s called “political speech.” The FrankSpeech network, however, was found to have been reckless. The trial lasted two weeks. After the verdict, in interviews on the courthouse steps, Lindell vowed to continue advocating against election fraud.
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Lindell, in spinning the libel verdict against him: “MyPillow is 100% vindicated, It’s a huge breakthrough for free speech, our First Amendment rights. You would think I’m not going to tell them that they’re blocking our elections from getting secure? But I will keep I will keep up the fight. You know, am I going to say, ‘Let’s melt them voting machines down and turn them into prison bars?’ Yeah, probably.”