Liberty Vote has ended its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell, closing a case that had shadowed him for years and left him facing one of the largest legal claims in his orbit. The settlement was filed June 25, 2026 in Washington, D.C. district court, and each side will pay its own attorney’s fees and expenses.
For Lindell, the timing is political as much as legal. He said the result is a “big relief” and that he can now run for governor, win governor, and not keep a $1.3 billion lawsuit in the back of his mind. He also said he was “very happy” with the outcome, a rare note of ease for a man who has spent years under the weight of litigation and debt.
That burden had been building long before the settlement. Dominion sued Lindell in 2021, saying he knew there was no evidence to support his election conspiracy claims but used them to sell pillows. The company later came under new ownership in October 2025, when Liberty Vote, founded by former Republican elections director Scott Leiendecker, acquired it. The case that ended this week was one of several high-profile defamation fights that followed the 2020 election, alongside lawsuits involving and Rudy Giuliani.
The settlement does not erase the friction around Lindell’s political future. He recently lost the Republican Party endorsement for the Minnesota gubernatorial race, though he will continue to the primary, and his finances have been a public strain for years. In 2023, he told the that he was out of money and owed millions in unspecified legal fees, and in January 2025 he was ordered to pay DHL $780,000 in a contract dispute involving the Shakopee-based MyPillow.
He is also still fighting other legal wounds. A federal judge has ruled that Lindell defamed Smartmatic and a former Dominion employee, and a jury awarded that former employee $2.3 million in damages. The new settlement removes the biggest dollar figure hanging over him, but it leaves open the broader question of how much legal and financial pressure he can absorb while staying in the race.
