Smartmatic sues Mike Lindell for defamation, saying he is 'crazy like a fox' and alleging he 'intent

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Smartmatic sues Mike Lindell for defamation, saying he is 'crazy like a fox' and alleging he 'intentionally stoked the fires of xenophobia and party-divide for the noble purpose of selling his pillows'


Voting machine company Smartmatic filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and the company, alleging that he spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election to sell pillows.

"Crazy like a fox. Mike Lindell knows exactly what he is doing, and it is dangerous," Smartmatic alleges in its lawsuit, which includes Lindell's company, MyPillow, as one of the defendants.

The voting machine company sued both Lindell and MyPillow for defamation and deceptive trade practices. Smartmatic is asking for an unspecified amount of monetary compensation and for Lindell to retract claims he made that they and other voting machine companies switched votes from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden in 2020.

"He knows voting machines did not switch votes from former President Trump to now-President Biden. These facts do not matter to Mr. Lindell because he knows he can sell," reads Smartmatic's lawsuit. "He knows he can sell a preconceived story about voting machines stealing democracy by stealing votes from a president who is incredibly popular with millions of Americans. And, of course, Mr. Lindell — 'the MyPillow Guy' — knows he needs to sell pillows to keep and increase his fortune."


https://www.businessinsider.com/smartmatic-sues-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-for-defamation-2022-1

[Midnight Writer]

1. If I went on TV and said MyPillow was designed by Cesar Chavez and manufactured in China,

do you think Mike would sue me for defamation?

[lindysalsagal]

2. I wish I had confidence that continued, relentless skewering of tfg's clowns

would act as a deterrence for other idiots who see him as a ladder to national prominence.

But there seems to be an unlimited supply of narcissistic morons who keep popping up like targets at a moving shooting range.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. This lawsuit will be fun to watch