Mike Lindell listens during an interview from the podium in the press briefing room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/Alex Brandon).
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is heading into his billion-dollar defamation trial this week with his verbal guns blazing, revealing in interviews how he’s planning to testify and “speak the truth” — saying, “I’m not going to incriminate myself! I’ve done nothing wrong.”
Lindell, 63, is being sued in federal court by Dominion Voting Systems after he “maliciously spread false claims” and accused the company of “rigging the 2020 presidential election,” according to Dominion officials. Jury selection was scheduled to kick off Monday, according to Colorado Politics, with U.S. District Judge Nina Wang — a Joe Biden appointee — overseeing the case in Denver, Colorado.
“If any attorney advised me not to testify or to take a deal, I’d tell them: ‘Never!”” Lindell told Rolling Stone last week.
“I speak the truth,” Lindell insisted. “I’ve been in many courts in my life, and ‘don’t testify’ is what they tell the guilty people, in my mind.”
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Lindell appeared on Steve Bannon‘s “War Room” podcast on Sunday and joked about brandishing one of his famous pillows after a lawyer in the case called them “lumpy” in a past interview.
“I told my lawyers, maybe I should bring him one inside,” Lindell said.
The case made headlines in April after Wang issued a scathing rebuke of Lindell for submitting a court filing allegedly rife with errors because his attorney allegedly used a generative artificial intelligence program, citing several court cases that don’t exist.
“These defects include but are not limited to misquotes of cited cases; misrepresentations of principles of law associated with cited cases, including discussions of legal principles that simply do not appear within such decisions; misstatements regarding whether case law originated from a binding authority such as the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; misattributions of case law to this District; and most egregiously, citation of cases that do not exist,” Wang blasted.
Lindell continues to repeatedly deny any and all wrongdoing in the case, telling Rolling Stone, “I didn’t go into this haphazardly,” in reference to his jury trial and testifying.
“Of course I’m gonna testify at my own trial,” he said. “I have nothing to hide. I am a former crack addict; I’ve always been open about that. I’ve always been open about everything! I’m as transparent as they come … So I have nothing to hide at this trial.”
Lindell’s trial is expected to last around two weeks, according to Colorado Politics. The witness list features local officials past and present, including disgraced Mesa County clerk Tina Peters, the first election official found guilty of a felony in connection with 2020 election conspiracy theories.
Kurt Olsen, a former Trump attorney who pestered the DOJ to take up a litany of Trump’s petty grievances over the election, is slated to be called by both sides.
Jerry Lambe and Colin Kalmbacher contributed to this report.
