MyPillow Guy Suing Dominion For THE RICO

And he's bringing Dershowitz along for the ride.

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Does Mike Lindell have a job? It seems like he spends most of his time going on Steve Bannon’s podcast and saying crazy sh*t. Yesterday he turned up to announce that he’s countersuing Dominion Voting Systems for doing RICOs to his free speech. Or… something. Honestly who can tell?

“You’re also going to have MyPillow going after Dominion in a countersuit and that’s going to your First Amendment speech. You’re going to have me go after them, counter-suing them,” Lindell said, according to Newsweek. “There are two cases, one will be MyPillow, one will be Mike Lindell. We’re both going after them. They’re a little bit different because one of them, what Dominion did was violate the First Amendment rights of everyone in this country by using bullying lawsuits and RICO law.”

Sounds like just the kind of highly particularized injury the federal courts will be excited to wade into!

Previously the Pillow guru professed himself delighted to be the defendant in a $1.3 billion defamation suit filed by Dominion. “Now I can get to the evidence faster. It’s going to be amazing,” he boasted to the Washington Post. But now he moans that the threat of litigation is abridging his God-given right to go on TV and destroy a company by falsely accusing it of rigging the presidential election.

“[What] they say to news outlets is, ‘If you let this guy on, we’re going to sue you too,'” he complained. “That’s racketeering, that goes back to the mafia days.” It’s an odd position for a guy who just sicced Gawker-killer Charles Harder on the Daily Mail for daring to suggest that a beautiful movie star would spend time with him voluntarily.

Nevertheless, Lindell is raring to go. And he’s bringing a friend along for the ride.

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It’s a big announcement this morning. I’ve got a team of lawyers, and we’re going after Dominion. We’re going after … for free speech. Alan Dershowitz told me this will be one of the biggest cases, if not the biggest case in history for free speech, for the First Amendment. They were going to be able to put it in their paper. And he probably, you know, explained to her why this case is so important, what they’ve done with cancel culture, suppressed our speech, used lawsuits to scare news outlets to not let people on to talk about their opinions or be able to speak out.

Dominion’s lawsuit alleges that Lindell knowingly defamed them in an effort to market his own products. But the emeritus Harvard Law professor describes the CEO’s campaign against Dominion as a protected expression of opinion.

“Remember too that the First Amendment doesn’t only give Lindell the right to express his views,” Dershowitz told Newsweek. “It gives 50 million people the right to hear his views.”

Does it though? Fifty million Americans have “the right” to listen to Mike Lindell on Newsmax and Twitter, and the First Amendment obliges those private companies to let him use their platforms to speak?

Well, l guess we’re all about to find out.

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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Says He’ll Counter-Sue Dominion With Two Cases—For Company and Himself [Newsweek]
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Announces Alan Dershowitz to Join Legal Team in Dominion Suit [Newsweek]


Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.