re: Dominion dropped its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell

China Insider?

As a bonafide, America hating communist, you should be happy with a Chinese source.

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Some of you will believe the election was “stolen until the day you die.

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It was 100% stolen.

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Some of you will believe the election was “stolen until the day you die. But it wasn’t and Biden was elected. This fantasy has become tired and boring. The books will record this episode as one of those curious, quirky events of U.S.history. There will be some discussion of how a president intentionally created skepticism surrounding our democratic elections and how Benjamin Franklin was prescient with his “if you can keep it” remark…

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Biden won one bellwether county and lost house seats. He needed weeks of absentee ballots post Election Day.

Your party of democracy didn’t even let you vote on your candidate.

Maybe sit this one out chief.

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I’m going to bow out of this and let someone else do it.

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The Fox News one for $700 million might be next

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I’m going to bow out of this and let someone else do it. I’m just going to say something I’ll regret and feel bad like the last time I got into it with someone who isn’t all there.

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This is lame as frick. You just spent an entire page telling him he doesn’t know what he’s talking about and he finally asks you to explain and you “bow out”.

This isn’t an agree to disagree situation, go all the way.

For the record both of you are being vague in your positions.

81 million votes for Biden….. :rotflmao:

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Why don’t you explain how it worked here.

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Dominion sued Lindell.

The value of that lawsuit is estimated through the analysis of many factors: (1) probability of prevailing, (2) likely judgment amount, (3) the judgement amount that is actually recoverable, and (4) the amount of time until payment of judgment.

Dominion's Probability of Prevailing: Near Certain. The probability of Dominion prevailing against Lindell seems nearly certain. In the Newsmax lawsuit, Judge Davis ruled that Newsmax committed defamation per se against Dominion in each of the 19 alleged statements. Last year in Denver, a jury issued a $2.3 million judgment against Lindell after finding he had defamed a former Dominion director with similar claims of election fraud. Both Fox and Newsmax settled Dominion's cases against them for millions of dollars, far more than nuisance costs. Clearly, both Fox and Newsmax believed Dominion's claims had significant merit.

Likely Judgment Amount: $100+ million Fox agreed to pay Dominion $787.5 million to settle Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. Similarly, Newsmax agreed to pay $67 million to settle Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against it. Eric Coomer, a single individual, received a $2.3 million judgment against Lindell for similar defamation claims. The likely judgment amount of Dominion's claims against Lindell would be $100 million or more.

Judgement Amount that Is Actually Recoverable: $0 While testifying on June 9, 2025, during his Denver defamation trial, Lindell stated that he was millions of dollars in debt due to legal costs, indicating a negative net worth of at least several million dollars as of mid-2025. Thus, it is unlikely that Dominion will recover any amount from Lindell regardless of the stated amount of a court judgment. A $1 billion judgment that is not recoverable is not worth the paper it's printed on.

Amount of Time until Payment of Judgment: 2+ years If Dominion would have proceed to trial against Lindell, it might have been a year or more before the trial was conducted and at least another year until the appeal process was complete.


Thus, when Liberty Vote, founded and operated by former Republican election official Scott Leiendecker, purchased Dominion in October 2025, four months after Lindell testified that he was millions of dollars in debt, the proxy value of Dominion's claims against Lindell were likely little more than $0.


The standard settlement process includes confidentiality, dismissal with prejudice, and each party bears its own costs. I have been involved in the settlement of hundreds of cases. Nearly all of them included a confidentiality clause, the plaintiff's agreement to dismiss with prejudice (which means the plaintiff cannot file the lawsuit again), and a clause that each party will bear its own attorney fees and court costs. The idea of settlement is to put the case and the feud to bed. No talking about the claims, no refiling the lawsuit, and no fighting about how much the attorney's fees are.

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