Last week was the trial of Eric Coomer v. Mike Lindell, MyPillow, and FrankSpeech and today the jury returned a verdict. Coomer, a Dominion employee who Lindell defamed as a “traitor” and accused of “the greatest crime in history,” initially sought $67 million, most of that in punitive damages. The jury decided that Coomer’s life had in fact been badly affected by Lindell’s unfounded ravings and so they awarded $2.3 million to Coomer — which Lindell says he intends to appeal.
FrankSpeech is supposed to pick up a large part of this tab. It really hasn’t sunk in with Lindell, who suffers from some kind of a mental illness which really should have a label. If anybody’s got Trump Derangement Syndrome, it’s him, not the yous and mes who see Trump and his ways for who and what they are.
And it was thought for a while that maybe Lindell’s lawyers would seek an insanity defense of some sort. That would be unique, since this is civil litigation and not criminal prosecution, but hey, in this era anything is possible, right? The lawyers didn’t proffer an insanity defense, but they did try a stupidity defense.
The way that went is that as closing statements were made, it was pointed out that Lindell “only has a high school education” and he was “being held to the standard of a Ph.D.” Oh come phuquing on: anybody with common sense should be able to figure out that if you call a man a “traitor” and accuse him of treasonous acts like stealing a presidential election, that that’s going to rile up the lunatic fringe. And that’s precisely what happened.
But Lindell, being the poster child for the lunatic fringe, didn’t see it that way. Not at all. And as you heard above, he’s going to keep speaking out about election interference — I guess until he is sleeping in a box in the street.
Oh, Mike. Maybe you should have simply stayed smoking crack. At least you weren’t a menace to society and to decent people doing their job working for voting machine companies. But I know Lindell doesn’t see it that way.
And let’s see if his appeal grows legs. The thing with an appeal is it takes more to obtain the right to bring one than the mere fact that you don’t like the verdict of the lower court. There is this pesky thing called “reversible error.” Now if you can find one of those, you have a shot at an appeal. Absent reversible error — what is there to appeal?
But don’t try to explain that to Mike. Remember, we’re talking about a man who used to complain that the Supreme Court didn’t want to hear his case due to standing, like standing was something trivial and not the foundation of all law. So I don’t expect Mike to get it.
There’s an old saying from vaudeville, Mike. Two in fact: The first is, “You can’t fight City Hall,” and “Pay the $2.00” — in this case the $2.3 million dollars. The moral of these sayings is know when you’re beat and just cut your losses and run. Do you think Lindell will have enough sense to realize the wisdom of these homilies? Most likely not but maybe his lawyers and his accountant, in particular, can persuade him otherwise.
Thanks for this update on Lindell, Ursula; he and his adventures got shoved off-stage by all the insanities of the Trump regime. I’m impressed that he still has any money. Is his pillow biz still running and, if so, who buys? Does Trump still take his calls or is he in the same limbo as Rudy? If Mike wasn’t such a dickhead I’d kinda feel sorry for him.