The MyPillow guy might be Trump's ultimate chump

Dominion's defamation lawsuits are sorting the cynics from the true believers

Mike Lindell.
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Impeachment wasn't followed by conviction. None of the congressional Republicans who cosseted the election conspiracy theories that inspired the Capitol sedition have resigned from office. It's not clear what, if anything, will come of congressional investigations into the events of that day. But there is one accountability tool which is dividing bone from marrow, wheat from chaff, sheep from goats, Fox News and Newsmax from Rudy Giuliani and the MyPillow guy.

That tool is defamation lawsuits. Two voting machine companies, Dominion and Smartmatic, feature prominently in the fevered tales of rigged vote results circulating among former President Donald Trump's supporters and friendly media outlets since Election Day. Those companies are now suing, with revealing results. Even facing $1.3 billion lawsuits, Giuliani and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell seem to be sticking to their stories. Do they really believe it all?

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.