- Dominion Voting Systems can sue MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for his unfounded allegations of electoral fraud.
- A Dominion spokesman told CNN on Sunday that Lindell is “begging to be sued”.
- Dominion and competitor Smartmatic have filed several defamation lawsuits since the election.
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Dominion Voting Systems can sue MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell over its ongoing allegations that the electronic voting machine influenced the November presidential election in favor of President Joe Biden.
“Mike Lindell is begging to be prosecuted and, at some point, we might as well serve you,” said Michael Steel, a spokesman for Dominion, during an appearance on CNN’s “Trusted Sources” program on Sunday.
The bed manager, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, continued to claim that the election was stolen from the former president and handed over to Biden, even when the right-wing media changed course.
Fox News, One America News Network (OAN) and Newsmax have given up promoting unfounded conspiracy theories that Dominion and a rival company, Smartmatic, illegally intervened to channel votes to Biden as voting systems companies became increasingly popular. more contentious.
Lindell, meanwhile, moved forward in full swing, showing a three-hour film at OAN on Friday that spurred a series of electoral fraud conspiracies.
“This most recent quoted documentary he has exhibited is nothing more than the same old badly finished and reformulated conspiracy theories – and the truth is coming to him,” Steel told CNN.
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While the two electronic voting machines embark on a litany of defamation lawsuits against media outlets and individuals who propagated conspiracy theories about the election, OAN made a major effort to distance itself from the film’s claims. He published a 90-second disclaimer that said “Mr. Lindell is the sole author and executive producer of this program and is solely responsible for its content.” The notice also said that OAN does not endorse any of the film’s statements about Dominion or Smartmatic.
Newsmax cut Lindell’s microphone during an appearance this week after he started complaining that he had “100% proof” that Dominion was involved in electoral fraud. The anchor rejected the false claims and left the set.
This week, Smartmatic filed a defamation suit against Fox News, some of its anchors and members of Trump’s legal team asking for $ 2.7 billion in damages.
Dominion recently filed a defamation suit against Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, seeking $ 1.3 billion in damages. The company claims that Giuliani’s propaganda that Dominion’s ballot boxes are inaccurate could cause it to lose hundreds of millions of government contracts.
The complex conspiracy theory involving Dominion in a widespread electoral fraud scheme claims, among other things, that the parent company of the company was founded by branches of the Venezuelan government to steal elections.
In reality, Dominion is a Canadian company, and independent auditors consider their polls to be reliable and accurate.