Dominion defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell ends in settlement

The company formerly known as Dominion Voting Systems ended its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell on June 25, 2026, closing one of the most visible legal fights left from the post-2020 election misinformation wars. A dismissal filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said both sides will pay their own attorney’s fees and costs, and the case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be filed again.

Dominion filed the suit on Feb. 22, 2021, accusing the MyPillow founder and Donald Trump ally of repeating baseless claims that voting machines were rigged and of using those claims to sell pillows. The business later changed hands in October 2025, when Liberty Vote, a St. Louis company owned by Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican election official and former St. Louis elections director, acquired Dominion. Dominion systems were used in 27 states in the 2024 election, a reminder of why the company remained a central target in fraud narratives long after the ballots were counted.

Lindell framed the settlement as a personal and political reprieve. He told WCCO it was “a big relief” and added, “I can now run for governor, win governor, and not have to have in the back of my mind a worry about a $1.3 billion lawsuit.” That puts the end of the case squarely into Minnesota politics, where Lindell is still running in the Republican gubernatorial primary after losing the party endorsement.

The settlement does not erase the broader legal record built around election falsehoods. In June 2025, a federal jury in Colorado found that Lindell defamed Eric Coomer, a former Dominion executive, and later awarded Coomer $2.3 million. In a separate dispute, a Minnesota court ordered MyPillow to pay nearly $778,000 to DHL. The wider defamation landscape has also already shifted through the $787 million Fox News settlement and Rudy Giuliani’s earlier confidential settlement, both of which helped define the cost of spreading false claims about the 2020 election. Ending the Lindell case closes another major chapter, but it leaves intact the court record that has already imposed real financial and political consequences on some of the loudest voices in the election-fraud campaign.