The company is asking for about $ 1.3 billion in compensation for Lindell’s numerous unfounded public statements by allies of former President Donald Trump that Dominion defrauded its machines in favor of Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
The 115-page lawsuit opened on Monday in Washington, DC, cites Lindell’s media appearances and social media posts promoting what they call the “Big Lie” about Dominion machines – including a two-hour movie that it aired on OAN and was full of falsehoods about voting irregularities.
In the process, Dominion writes that Lindell “sells the lie today because the lie sells pillows” by citing promotional discount codes on the MyPillow website, including “FightforTrump”, “Proof” and “QAnon”.
“Despite repeated warnings and efforts to share the facts with him, Mr. Lindell continued to spread false statements about Dominion, each time giving empty guarantees that he would present overwhelming evidence,” said Dominion CEO John Poulos in a statement. on Monday .
Poulos added that Lindell’s statements “did irreparable damage to Dominion’s good reputation and threatened the safety of our employees and customers”.
Lindell promised evidence to his followers, but instead, “delivered totally meaningless and fake documents from the dark corners of the Internet,” Dominion legal counsel Megan Meier, a partner at Clare Locke LLP, said in a statement, adding that Lindell “needs to be held responsible for defaming Dominion and undermining the integrity of our electoral system while profiting from it.”
The lawsuit promises that “through discovery, Dominion will prove that there is no real evidence to support the Big Lie. Dominion brings this action to claim the rights of the company, to recover the damages, to seek an injunction that is closely adapted, to defend yourself and your employees, and prevent Lindell and MyPillow from making even more profit at Dominion’s expense. “