“Dominion Voting Systems hit MyPillow Chief Executive Officer Mike Lindell with a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit Monday, claiming he defamed the company with false accusations that it had rigged the 2020 election for Joe Biden,” said right-of-center Newsmax.
Dominion is one of the largest makers of voting machines in the U.S., accuses the prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump of repeatedly echoing the “big lie” about election fraud in an effort to boost his business, despite knowing that no such fraud had occurred.
The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It claims that Lindell “sells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows.” Among Dominion’s assertions is that that Lindell increased MyPillow sales as much as 40% pitching promotional codes for his products like “FightForTrump,” “45,” and “QAnon.”
“Now I can get to the evidence faster,” Lindell told WaPo. “It’s going to be amazing.” He added that he plans to continue releasing “more movies, more documentaries” about alleged 2020 election fraud.
Lindell said the video Absolute Proof has reached over 30 million viewers. Lindell’s video is posted on the report linked below.
The Dominion suit is the latest in a series of multibillion-dollar court actions taken by voting machine companies against high-profile supporters of President Donald J. Trump, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Fox News.
Newsmax admitted today to using numerous disclaimers in an attempt to avoid similar litigation that has hit Fox, those already named by Dominion, or that has been threatened against One America News Network (OAN or OANN).
“Despite repeated warnings and efforts to share the facts with him, Mr. Lindell has continued to maliciously spread false claims about Dominion, each time giving empty assurances that he would come forward with overwhelming proof,” Dominion CEO John Poulos said in a statement. “These claims have caused irreparable harm to Dominion’s good reputation and threatened the safety of our employees and customers.”
Lindell has paid a significant price for his activism on behalf of Trump’s election contest, with more than a twenty retailers announcing they were no longer offering MyPillow products for sale.
Additional information on this topic is found in the report linked above.
It is worth mentioning that Time’s reporter Molly Ball recently made a claim that ‘thousands” of Biden-Harris supporting companies and organizations were involved in the effort to keep President Trump from securing his 2nd term in office. Ball called it a secret conspiracy, but framed it as election integrity vs. election theft.
With serious allegations from the left and right that the Biden-Harris regime is working on behalf of big brands and billionaires in a fashion that has and/or will undermine smaller businesses and American rights, MHProNews plans to monitor and report on such concerns.
Having addressed the first part of tonight’s headline topics, the second element of our topics for tonight will be our featured focus is found further below.
For our growing numbers of new readers, a few quick evening/nightly market report insights.
- Every business evening, MHProNews provides a bullet list of left-right news headlines from CNN and in a matter of moments, savvy professionals can see at a glance news headlines and views across the political spectrum.
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- Our featured focus follows the quotable quotes, periodic political cartoons, those left-right headlines, and two of our three market summary graphics as reported at the closing bell.
- After the featured focus, are some recent/related report links and the third manufactured housing focused stock equities graphic. There are some additional items that include the free signup for the manufactured housing industry’s x2 weekly emailed news to the most-read trade publication in our profession:
On a day that saw mixed manufactured home connected equities today, with more that dropped than rose, let’s press ahead toward our other business-nightly features and tonight’s focus on the MHI’s de facto admission on the issue of manufactured housing finance.
Quotes That Shed Light – Industry, American, Social, National Issues…
Headlines from left-of-center CNN
- Retail on the ropes
- A customer carries out a box while exiting from a Kohl's Corp. department store in Woodstock, Georgia, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. For the first time ever on Black Friday, more consumers intend to shop online than in stores, a switch driven by the coronavirus pandemic,, according to a survey by Deloitte.
- Kohl’s tried striking a deal with Amazon. It wasn’t enough to fend off activist investors
- After the GameStop fiasco, momentum builds for an $800 billion tax
- The 737 Max is no longer Boeing’s biggest problem, after yet another safety grounding
- Dominion sues MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell for $1.3 billion
- This bitcoin bank’s stock has jumped nearly 1,300% in just over a year
- Meet the 29-year-old cancer survivor set to make history in space
- Nearly 30,000 Macs reportedly infected with mysterious malware
- Peloton is releasing a cheaper treadmill. It’s still $2,495
- The iPhone just had a huge quarter
- Jay-Z sells half of his Champagne brand to owner of Dom Pérignon
- Taco Bell joins the chicken wars with a new taco
- HOUSTON, TEXAS – FEBRUARY 21: A view of high voltage transmission towers on February 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Millions of Texans lost power when winter storm Uri hit the state and knocked out coal, natural gas and nuclear plants that were unprepared for the freezing temperatures brought on by the storm. Wind turbines that provide an estimated 24 percent of energy to the state became inoperable when they froze.
- The Texas deep freeze could force this energy company out of business
- The new 2021 Jeep® Grand Cherokee L Overland.
- Chief of Cherokee Nation asks Jeep to stop using tribe’s name
- This 29-year-old cancer survivor is set to be the youngest American ever in space
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- An employee gathers shopping carts at Walmart, July 22, 2020 in Burbank, California. – The country’s most populous state reported a record 12,807 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours.
- Walmart just boosted pay to $15. It’s not what you think
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- Dole president: We’re ‘close’ to $15 minimum wage
- Opinion: Push for $15 minimum wage is a great start
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Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax
- Lindsey Graham Hits Garland for Not Calling Comey ‘Terrible’ FBI Chief
- Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Monday snapped at attorney general nominee Merrick Garland for not calling James Comey “a terrible FBI director.” At his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, Garland declined to say how he felt about Comey.
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- The Biden Presidency
- WH Calls for Moment of Silence for Half Million COVID-19 Deaths
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- Biden Drops Trump Citizenship Test
- Kinzinger: Biden Must Be ‘Clear-Eyed’ About China
- Conservatives Group Labels HHS Nominee Becerra an ‘Extremist’
- US Waits to See If Iran Resumes Talks
- WH Is Hopeful Biden Can Travel to Texas as Soon as This Week
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- Newsfront
- Family of Americans Held in Iran Want Any Deal to Free Them
- The family of an American-Iranian father and son detained for years in Iran appealed Monday to President Joe Biden to make freeing of Iranian-American detainees a condition of any deals or concessions with that country. “It is beyond outrageous for Iran to continue playing…
- Nasdaq, S&P 500 End Lower as Yields Rise; Disney Lifts Dow
- USA Today Poll: Newsmax Rising Fast Against Fox News
- USA Today reports that a new poll by Suffolk University shows that
- Nominee Garland Says Politics Won’t Influence DOJ Criminal Probes
- Trump Will Use New Office to Grow, Influence GOP
- Pelosi Funnels $300K to Gerrymandering After Rebuking It
- Biden Drops Trump Citizenship Test
- Andy Biggs to Newsmax TV: ‘Massive Increase’ in Unaccompanied Child Migrants
- Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
- New Jersey Governor Signs Bills With Legal Marijuana Framework
- Report: Trump Will Claim Control of GOP in CPAC Speech
- NBC Poll: Blue-Collar Workers Flocked to GOP Under Trump
- Biden Boosts Pandemic Lending to Smallest Businesses
- Dominion Voting Sues MyPillow’s Mike Lindell for $1.3 Billion
- Justice Thomas Blisters Court on Rejecting Election Cases
- Marines Swap March Drills for Board Games to Create ‘Smarter’ Infantry
- The Marine Corps is reportedly ditching some traditional marching
- Supreme Court Could Rule on State Abortion Restrictions
- The Supreme Court could take up several cases involving state laws
- US Surpasses 500K COVID-19 Deaths
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- Ex-NSA Matthew Pottinger: Evidence Pandemic Caused By Chinese Military, Human Error
- Scalise Says $60B Already Available to Reopen Schools
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- Finance
- Boeing: 777s With Engine That Blew Apart Should Be Grounded
- Boeing has recommended that airlines ground all of 777s with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over Denver this weekend, as U.S. regulators ordered United Airlines to step up inspections of those planes. Several airlines, including United, said they…
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- Health
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Market Indicator Closing Summaries – Yahoo Finance Closing Tickers on MHProNews…
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Where Business, Politics and Investing Can Meet
The Chinese Communist military was apparently doing animal experiments in the BL4 Wuhan Institute of Virology lab which was the likely an outbreak of flu-like illness in the fall of 2019, Matthew Pottinger, a deputy national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, said Sunday.
It has been called a “bombshell revelation” on CBS News’ “Face The Nation.” Pottinger said “the ledger on the side of the explanation that said [the outbreak] resulted from some kind of human error far outweighs the side of the scale that says this was some natural outbreak.” That noted, MHProNews reported months ago on evidence that the outbreak was in the fall, and not in December 2019, as many previously thought.
“We have very strong reason to believe that the Chinese military was doing secret, classified animal experiments in that same laboratory, going all the way back to at least 2017,” Pottinger said.
“We have good reason to believe that there was an outbreak of flu-like illness among researchers working in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the fall of 2019, immediately before the first documented cases came to light.”
Pottinger said that the information declassified by the Department of State before President Trump left the White House was “very carefully” crafted — but unmistakable — that there was a COVID-like disease circulating in China in the autumn of 2019.
“The case it was making was for following up on these important leads,” he said.
That too was something MHProNews reported weeks prior to this CBS News report. Furthermore, MHProNews informed readers that a Chinese national, Dr. Lin-Meng, was making similar allegations. She claimed documentary evidence for her claims. Much of the mainstream media ignored her.
This matters for several reasons. Day by day, MHProNews sources information carefully across the left-right divide, as this business nightly report dramatizes with our left-right news bullets. But we also use various ‘tests’ to try to discern what is likely true or merely hype or propaganda. On the Wuhan China Virus issue, our track record has been excellent, compared to numerous mainstream news sources.
“We had about a dozen [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] officers in China,” Pottinger said, per a partial Newsmax transcript of his interview. “We had lots of CDC officers in the United States that deal with Chinese doctors. …They said this thing is not going to be like SARS. It is going to be like the 1918 flu pandemic because it is spreading silently.”
He said that U.S. officials “were a little bit too credulous.” But MHProNews took the issues seriously, while noting the various disconnects that were occurring since early on, and which arguably are still ongoing.
“We were waiting to be fed information when we were not going to get that information,” he said. “They had a strong incentive to mislead their own public and the rest of the world about the nature of this virus.” Pottinger noted that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) didn’t turn to its country’s CDC to deal with the crisis — “they turned to their military.”
“Our CDC did not have relations established with the Chinese military. So the director of the Chinese CDC, based on public reporting, didn’t know either… that this thing was circulating until the last day of December,” Pottinger said.
But he added there were early missteps in the United States as well — including the “misjudgment by public health officials in this country to not advocate for the widespread, generalized use of face coverings,” he said.
“They feared shortages,” he said. “We put all of our mask-making supplies into, guess where, China. And China was not making it easy for us to get access to additional supplies. … It then made the mistake of inflating that with a set of advice that masks don’t work effectively for the general public. That was a big mistake.”
Additional information on this issue that obviously still impacts America and the world are found in the reports linked above and below.
Related, Recent, and Read Hot Reports
Manufactured Housing Industry Investments Connected Closing Equities Tickers
Some of these firms invest in manufactured housing, or are otherwise connected, but may do other forms of investing or business activities too.
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- NOTE: The chart below includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry lender
- NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
- NOTE: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm. Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.
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Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory built housing industry suppliers.
· LCI Industries, Patrick, UFPI, and LP each are suppliers to the manufactured housing industry, among others.
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