“The biggest thing I plan to say on the stand is that I didn’t know who this guy [Eric Coomer] was — so why are you picking on MyPillow and Mike Lindell? What did I ever do to him? I didn’t even know who the guy was!” Lindell says, adding that he wants to go on the offensive and explain how much Coomer’s defamation lawsuit against Newsmax and the right-wing network’s subsequent settlement hurt his company.The Donald Trump “I don’t even know this guy!” defense. Works every time! Said nobody, ever.
But he won’t stop talking.
Dominion is begging Lindell to take the stand. He asked for this; literally, on Tucker Carlson’s show in 2021. He has no idea what this lawsuit is about:Those numbers don’t lie, and I plan to show them in court, and show what he did to MyPillow, or my lawyers might do it … Eric Coomer’s settlement with Newsmax has cost MyPillow in sales over $20 million dollars because Newsmax will never have me on to talk about MyPillow products anymore! … I’m going in there [to testify] to help save our country, and help get rid of these electronic voting machines. I got vocal cord surgery a month ago. In 2016, I had my first surgery, and I couldn’t talk for 45 days straight. … But I’m not gonna stop talking.”
“I will never stop until we go back to paper ballots,” he insists. “I’m gonna be there every day. … I believe it’s one of the most important cases in history. … I’ll be there every minute of every day until the last minute of the trial! … I’m going to list every single [expert I’ve talked to] on the stand.”Do I have to explain trials don’t work that way? Even on TeeVee?
George Conway, a former fixture of the conservative legal elite who emerged as a strident MAGA critic during Trump’s first term, doesn’t think it’s such a good idea for Lindell to testify: “If there were an insanity defense to defamation, sure, I’d put him on the stand,” he says. “But apart from that, I probably wouldn’t want him anywhere near the courtroom.”What George said.
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