Mike Lindell, founder of MyPillow, has been ordered to pay a former employee millions in damages after he was found liable for defamation.
Lindell called the former employee, Eric Coomer, a traitor and accused him of stealing the 2020 presidential election on his online media platform.
Coomer, was awarded $2.3 million in damages.
Who is Eric Coomer?
Coomer was the security and product strategy director at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems.
Dominion was also the system used during the 2020 presidential election between President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden.
Dominion won a $787 million settlement in a defamation lawsuit it filed against Fox News over its airing of false claims against the company and has another lawsuit against the conservative network Newsmax.
Newsmax apologized to Coomer in 2021 for airing false allegations against him.
Coomer sues Lindell
During the two-week trial, Coomer said his career and life were destroyed by the statements Lindell made. His lawyers said Lindell either knew the statements were lies, or conveyed them recklessly without knowing if they were true.
Lindell said his beliefs that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud were influenced by watching the 2020 HBO documentary “Kill Chain” and by