A federal jury in Colorado reached a verdict on Monday, holding MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell accountable for defamation. The case involved a former employee of Dominion Voting Systems, who claimed that Lindell’s promotion of conspiracy theories about the 2020 election at his 2021 “cyber symposium” resulted in significant personal harm. This event also turned out to be costly for Lindell due to an unsuccessful “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge.”

The jury ultimately concluded that Lindell defamed Dr. Eric Coomer and determined that his platform, FrankSpeech, was part of a civil conspiracy to do so. Consequently, Lindell has been ordered to pay $2.3 million in damages. This amount is significantly lower than the over $60 million Coomer’s legal team initially sought, yet it still represents a legal defeat for Lindell, as reported by Kyle Clark from 9NEWS.

It wasn’t a total loss for Lindell, however, as MyPillow escaped liability — reportedly as Coomer’s legal team requested.

In an interview with former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani on LindellTV after the verdict, Lindell offered his reaction, saying: “It was awesome.”

RUDY GIULIANI SHOW https://t.co/lZJoCbGq00

— LindellTV (@RealLindellTV) June 16, 2025

Claiming that MyPillow was “100% vindicated” and decrying “lawfare,” Lindell declared the day a “huge victory.”

“This was a huge victory for our country. MyPillow was sued for no reason and they won! 100%!” he said.

Earlier that day, the jury, which had been deliberating since Friday, sought clarification on whether they or the judge should determine the damages. This question suggested potential concerns for Lindell and his digital platform, FrankSpeech.

Coomer filed his first lawsuit as far back as December 2020, alleging that a collection of right-wing media outlets, the Trump campaign, former Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Giuliani, and individual media personalties, including podcaster Joseph Oltmann, played a role in falsely tarring Coomer as an “Antifa” activist who vowed on a conference call to ensure Joe Biden would win the 2020 election no matter what.

In both that case and the one we now discuss, the plaintiff claimed that Oltmann “fabricated” a conspiracy whereby Coomer was labeled a “traitor,” leading to “multiple credible death threats.” Lindell and his businesses effectively promoted that conspiracy by inviting Oltmann to the stage at the ensuing cyber symposium, which was streamed online, Coomer argued in his 2022 federal complaint against Lindell, MyPillow, Inc., FrankSpeech LLC.

From Coomer’s lawsuit:

Since aligning himself with Oltmann, Lindell has publicly accused Dr. Coomer of being “a traitor to the United States.” He has claimed, without evidence, that Dr. Coomer committed treason and that he should turn himself into the authorities. He has published numerous statements asserting that Dr. Coomer is a criminal, that both Dr. Coomer and his counsel are part of a “criminal crime family,” and that Dr. Coomer “did crimes against the United States and quite frankly all of humanity.” Defendants have published these numerous false statements, defamatory interviews, and other dishonest content maligning Dr. Coomer on the website frankspeech.com often alongside a sales pitch for products from MyPillow. In addition, Defendants further made claims against Dr. Coomer a centerpiece of a failed “Cyber Symposium” that they organized, produced, and broadcast around the world.

Lindell had long maintained that he has “done nothing wrong,” that he truly believes his claims about the election, and that both he and his allies have instead been persecuted and subjected to “lawfare” for simply asking questions about the integrity of the 2020 election, in violation of their First Amendment rights.

In a video and post shared Monday on X ahead of the verdict, Lindell remarked upon the gravity of his situation: “Today the jury decides.”