"It's just words," said MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell 's defense attorney, Chris Kachouroff, in opening statements of the defamation trial brought against him by former Dominion Voting Systems director of product strategy Eric Coomer. "Mike Lindell believed he was telling the truth."

Coomer is alleging that Lindell's statements on his FrankSpeech streaming platform amplifying an accusation made by Colorado podcaster Joe Oltmann that Coomer rigged the 2020 election have caused his reputation to become "irreparably tarnished," and inspired credible threats to his life.

Lindell's attorneys aren't attempting to prove that the 2020 was actually rigged, but that the MyPillow CEO believed the statements he made, including that Coomer was treasonous and a traitor to his country.

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