This legal strategy culminated in FOX News paying $787.5 million in April 2023 to settle a massive $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. The claim was that FOX executives and hosts "knowingly broadcasted false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, which severely damaged the company's reputation." Except, they weren't conspiracy theories--and the recent abandonment of the lawsuit against Mike Lindell, one who refused to settle, may reveal that very reality.
Originally, Dominion sued MyPillow and Mike Lindell for $1.3 billion regarding his comments about a rigged election. Lindell countersued but failed to obtain the success he sought. The original case, however, continued to plod on out of sight and out of mind to the public.
Then former Republican election official Scott Leiendecker bought Dominion and changed its name to Liberty Vote with a plan to use the company to improve election integrity in America. He then proclaimed the company would not seek to obtain anything from Lindell or his giant bedding company.
Lindell claimed going in to have 800 pages of testimony. "Five years of compiled research, court records, sworn testimony, government documents, and technical forensics" that supported his claim.
With the lawsuit dropped, does that mean the investigations into the 2020 Election will stop? And if the election was so safe and secure, and there's no evidence, then what was Lindell offering as evidence?
Dominion, founded by Canadian John Poulos in 2000, eventually was sold and used, along with Smartmatic, in 2010 and 2013 in the Philippines, where claims arose of malfunction and fraud. In 2016, seventy-one million voters in 1,635 jurisdictions in the United States used Dominion, which by then was also tied to the Clinton Foundation.