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Dominion Voting Systems on Monday filed a lawsuit against MyPillow founder Mike Lindell following his statements about the company after the Nov. 3 election.
The lawsuit, filed in Washington D.C., alleged that Lindell harmed the firmâs brand by raising questions about the companyâs machines. The company is seeking damages in excess of $1.3 billion.
âInstead of retracting his lies, Lindellâa multimillionaire with a nearly unlimited ability to broadcast his preferred messages on conservative mediaâwhined that he was being âcensoredâ and âattackedâ and produced a âdocu-movieâ featuring shady characters and fake documents sourced from dark corners of the internet,â the lawsuit stated, referring to a video produced by Lindell that he released on several platforms including his own website. Dominion, in its suit, claimed Lindell was able to sell more MyPillow products due to his claims.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Monday, Lindell said he was âvery, very happyâ about the lawsuit.
âI have all the evidence on them,â he told the paper. âNow this will get disclosed faster, all the machine fraud and the attack on our country.â
Last week, Lindell told the Daily Beast that he wants Dominion to file a lawsuit against him because he could obtain evidence via discovery. âThat would so make my day because then they would have to go into discovery, and that would make my job a lot easier,â he also said.
Dominion in its Monday filing that via discovery, the firm âwill prove that there is no real evidenceâ regarding claims about the Nov. 3 election.
After Lindellâs video was released, a spokesperson for Dominion, Michael Steel, told news outlets weeks ago that he was âbegging to be sued.â
Dominion has also filed lawsuits against former Trump lawyer and New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, who filed third-party lawsuits related to the Nov. 3 election. The firm is seeking $1.3 billion each from them.
Giuliani said that Dominionâs lawsuit was an âact of intimidationâ to âcensor the exercise of free speech.â Powell also rejected the lawsuit.
Lindell and his MyPillow account were suspended by Twitter several weeks ago over his election claims. When Lindell released his video on YouTube, the Google-owned platform deleted it. Vimeo also took down the video.
âPer our presidential election integrity policy, we remove content uploaded after the safe-harbor deadlineâ that includes claims that âfraud, errors or glitches changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election,â YouTube spokesperson Alex Joseph told The Washington Times and other news outlets on Feb. 6. âWe removed this video and its reuploads in accordance with this policy.â
The Epoch Times has reached out to Lindell for comment.