WorldNetDaily has long been a promoter of MyPillow guy Mike Lindell’s discredited claims about the 2020 election — for instance, falsely claiming that a boycott against Bed Bath & Beyond for dropping MyPillow hurt its stock, then trying to hide that it promoted a Lindell event promising “irrefutable evidence” that the election was hacked after that evidence proved to be quite refutable. So it’s no surprise that WND would let Lindell spin away his legal issues. Bob Unruh gave Lindell a platform to spin a legal loss into a win in a June 17 article:
MyPillow chief Mike Lindell, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump throughout the Democrat lawfare against him, has been told by a federal jury to pay an ex-voting systems executive $2.3 million in a defamation case.
Lindell immediately called it a victory, since the plaintiff had demanded $62.7 million, and confirmed the amount awarded will be appealed.
Lindell was found liable by a jury in the far-left enclave of Denver for claiming election fraud in the 2020 election.
He was sued by Eric Coomer, ex-official at Dominion Voting Systems, a company that was under fire from a number of critics after the 2020 election results.
Unruh offered no evidence that Denver is “far-left” — that’s part of his weird anger against his home state of Colorado. He then interjected discredited claims about the election irrelevant to Lindell in order to build up his supposed credibility:
In that election, there was confirmed fraud in multiple cases as well as significant levels of undue influence. For one, Mark Zuckerberg dished out hundreds of millions of dollars to local election officials who often used the cash to recruit voters in Democrat districts. Further, the FBI actually interfered in the election by instructing media outlets to suppress the damaging information about the Bidens revealed in a laptop computer that was abandoned at a repair shop by Hunter Biden. Polling showed the influenced probably cost Trump that election.
The jury claimed Lindell’s comments were “baseless conspiracy theories claiming election fraud in the 2020 election.”
Coomer claimed Lindell and his companies “helped spread a conspiracy theory that he rigged the election against President Donald Trump,” according to locally published reports.
Coomer’s lawyer said he was thrilled with the verdict.
Unruh didn’t mention that, as a more honest news organization reported, Lindell invoked the George Costanza defense — he believed his smears of Coomer were true — and didn’t mention that these lies by Lindell and others destroyed Coomer’s life and forced him to leave his Dominion job.
WND spun for Lindell again in an anonymously written July 24 article:
An appeals court has determined that an arbitration panel was not allowed to change the rules of a contest after the fact in a ruling that voids a $5 million claim that Trump-supporting MyPillow guy Mike Lindell was supposed to have to pay.
The ruling comes from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and voided a contest “win” by Robert Zeidman, a software developer.
A report at Just the News explained Lindell had offered a prize of $5 million to anyone who could prove the data regarding Chinese election interference in the 2020 presidential race was “unequivocally” not related to the 2020 election.
Zeidman submitted a 15-page report claiming that was the case, but prize judges found he had not documented his claim adequately.
He took the fight to arbitration, where a panel ruled in his favor.
This would be the event that WND distanced itself from after Zeidman proved Lindell wrong. And in contradiction to WND’s claim that Zeidman “had not documented his claim adequately,” a three-person arbitration panel — which included one member appointed by Lindell — ruled that Zeifman was entitled to Lindell’s prize money. WND made no effort to contact Zeidman or his legal team for a response.