Associated Press
(AP) — A federal jury in Colorado on Monday found that one of the nation’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, defamed a former employee of a leading voting equipment company after the 2020 presidential election.
The employee, Eric Coomer, was awarded $2.3 million in damages. He had sued after Lindell called him a traitor and accusations about him stealing the election were streamed on Lindell’s online media platform.
Coomer was the security and product strategy director at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, whose voting machines became the target of elaborate conspiracy theories among allies of President Donald Trump, who continues to falsely claim that his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 was due to widespread fraud.
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. It apologized to Coomer in 2021 for airing false allegations against him.
In a statement provided to CNN by his lawyer, Coomer said: “Thankfully the jury saw this for what it is. Mike Lindell not only hurt me with his baseless lies - he hurt the American people and the democratic process.”
“I am now one step closer to putting my life back together and thank the jury for their thoughtfulness and service,” he added.
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