Charles Harder
Mike Lindell, the founder of MyPillow who served as an advisor to the president Donald Trump, hired famous defamation lawyer Charles Harder to process the Daily Mail after the agency published a story claiming that Lindell had an affair with the actress Jane Krakowski.
Harder confirmed his Lindell impersonation for Law & Crime on Saturday after a Daily Beast Friday night report.
Harder, best known for representing Hulk Hogan in the process that brought down Gawker, has a long list of celebrity clientele, including the former president Donald Trump and disgraced film producer and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein.
O Daily Mail on Thursday he claimed that Lindell and Krakowsi met in a studio while filming a show and started having a “nine-month secret romance” that was “an open secret” in New York’s West Village. The article cited several anonymous sources who claimed that the friends of ultraliberal Krakowski were perplexed by their relationship with the “bed titan” who supported Trump.
But in an interview with Daily Beast, Lindell said the hit was totally fake, saying he “never met” Krakowsi, had never been to the West Village and had never been to the Hamptons. (The last location is where the Daily Mail claimed that the two broke up.)
“They have done so much damage to my reputation … I am not just asking for a letter of demand or retraction, I want to sue them because they have damaged my integrity as a Christian and my help network for addicts everywhere,” he said, adding who had hired Harder to represent him in the lawsuit against the UK-based media.
In an email to Law and Crime, Harder reiterated Lindell’s claims that the report was nothing more than a “hit” against his client and that a lawsuit was imminent.
“Mike Lindell never met Jane Krakowski. O Daily Mail asked him to comment on a possible story that the two secretly dated. He immediately told them that he had never heard of it and that it was ‘fake news’, ”wrote Harder. “O Daily Mail then he recklessly published his false story and defamed him in the process – falsely saying that he gave him champagne and liquor. He is a recovery addict and runs the Lindell Recovery Network. Mr. Lindell plans to sue the Daily Mail. “
Harder also told the Daily Beast that the Submit published the story because of Lindell’s support for President Trump, saying that his client “will not give up on … machine electoral fraud”, probably referring to the pillow tycoon’s false claims that Dominion Voting Systems of some way he defrauded the election for president Joe Biden.
Dominion is taking steps to prosecute his critics for defamation. Lindell has already been linked to this litigation for publicly promulgating the unmasked conspiracy theory that Dominion machines spoiled the 2020 election.
“You have positioned yourself as a prominent leader of the ongoing disinformation campaign,” said a letter from Dominion to Lindell sent by a lawyer Thomas A. Clare.
“Despite knowing that your implausible attacks against Dominion have no basis in reality, you participated in the vast and coordinated disinformation campaign to slander Dominion,” continues the letter before warning that “[l]investigation on these issues is imminent. “
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