There is a line in the demand for the defamation of Eric Coomer against Mike Lindell, the type of Mypillow, which seems to me the perfect description of what happens when influential supporters are about innocent people in these incredible political times loaded:
“The consequences of the real world for the subjects of those lies,” says the demand, “have been devastating.”
Indeed.
Think of Georgia's electoral workers, Ruby Freeman and his daughter Shaye Moss, whose lives were destroyed when Rudy Giuliani, once the main campaign lawyer of President Trump said that the couple had manipulated the electoral result of 2020 in their state. Giuliani even invented a blatantly racist story about women who transmit drugs to each other in his vote of Fulton County. Trump amplified the statements. The two women received death threats, reluctant to leave home even for edible and had to hide. I will never forget how sad and broken they seemed during their testimony before the Committee of the House of Representatives investigated the insurrection of January 6.
Happily, Freeman and Moss won an agreement of $ 148 million from Giuliani, which led the former mayor of New York to demand unsuccessfully for bankruptcy in an effort to dodge their obligation. Now stripped of his license to practice the law in New York, Giuliani has fallen so far that it is not even a phrase on night television.
Like Freeman and Moss, Coomer, the former Director of Products and Safety Strategy for Dominion Voting Systems, was subjected to a torrent of false statements about the electoral manipulation of Lindell and other theorists of the right and media conspiracy. Like Freeman and Moss, he was terrified and driven to hide.
He left his job, moved to a new location, placed weapons around the house that borrowed from a friend, experienced depression and panic attacks, and believes that he will not be able to return to his profession.
“People essentially bet on how my brother's body would be and what a disastrous group of shadows would be behind his death,” said Coomer's brother to New York Times in 2021. “He would be executed by the state or find him with a falsified suicide note and two shots in the back of his head.”
Coomer, like others, became collateral damage in the incomplete Maga campaign to cancel the results of the 2020 elections.
Fox News hosts, including Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro and Lou Dobbs, lost their heads complete Joe Biden had been Fair and Plaza.
That unpleasant chapter ended up costing Fox $ 787.5 million in an agreement to Dominion, which allowed the right -wing network to avoid a test.
Coomer, who has filed demands against Giuliani and several others who spread lies about him, now has his day in court against Lindell. The defamation trial is expected, which began on Monday, will last until the end of this week. (Coomer established lawsuits against the conspiracy theoretical Sidney Powell; Newsmax; One America News Network, or Oan; and an OAN correspondent. His lawsuit against Guiliani is pending).
Joseph Oltmann, who told the listeners, the listeners dreamed with the false Coomer statements that had been infiltrated in a “call from the anti -Fa Conference” in which “Eric, the type of domain” claimed to have manipulated the elections against Trump. (Coomer's defamation demand against Oltmann is also pending).
“Oltmann,” says Coomer's demand, “he said that this alleged call occurred on an not specified date before the elections, but did not think about taking measures until after the elections were called President Biden …. Oltmann's story is inherently implausible.”
Not to mention, extravagant and absurd.
In his campaign against Coomer, Oltmann published a photo of Dominion's executive house on his social networks and urged his followers to “fly this shit. He shares, put his name everywhere. It does not rest for this shit … Eric … we are looking at you.”
Lindell, who seems that he has never encountered a right -wing conspiracy theory that he could not hug, picked up Oltmann's fantasies about Coomer and began to spread them everywhere, in interviews, on his website, on social networks, etc.
In its Frankspeech media platform, Lindell went to Coomer directly: “You are disgusting and you are a traitor. You are a traitor to the United States of America.” (Classic projection case, in my humble opinion).
Lindell could have established himself as many others have done. Instead, he has chosen to fight, selling pillows, sheets and shoes to pay his legal invoices as he advances. His lawyer said that because he believed that what he was saying was true, it is not defamation. “They are just words. All Mike Lindell did was talk,” Lindell's lawyer told the jury. “Mike believed he was telling the truth.”
Before the trial, Lindell stopped in the steps of the Federal Justice Palace in Denver and proclaimed that his only objective in all this was to ban electronic voting machines and replace them with paper tickets.
“If we can get there,” he said, “I would sacrifice everything.”
If Coomer wins his defamation case against Lindell, and I really hope he will, Lindell will have lost a lot and won very little. First, the case has nothing to do with the validity of the voting machines. Secondly, it is estimated that 98% of US voters have already issued ballots that leave a stack of paper because that is a way in which voting machines record votes.
But Lindell, like many of his Maga compatriots, will still not let reality get in the path of Trump's great lie.
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