Liberty Vote and Mike Lindell ended the Mike Lindell Liberty Vote dispute with a confidential settlement that closed the $1.3 billion defamation case. Lindell said the result is a “big relief” as he keeps moving through the Minnesota gubernatorial race.
The public filing in Washington, D.C. district court says both Liberty and Lindell must pay their own attorney's fees and expenses. Lindell also said, “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.”
Liberty Vote’s October purchase
Liberty Vote acquired Dominion in October 2025, after Dominion had sued Lindell in 2021. The company said in the filing that the matter ended through a confidential settlement, which closes the lawsuit without laying out a broader public package of terms.
That leaves one part of the result in view and another hidden: the fees are public, but the filing does not spell out whether any money changed hands or whether either side accepted any other nonpublic condition. For Lindell, the practical shift is immediate. The lawsuit no longer sits over his campaign as an active $1.3 billion legal threat.
False 2020 election claims
Dominion had alleged that Lindell knew there was no evidence to support his election conspiracy theories tied to the 2020 election. The case now ends the same way other high-profile disputes tied to those claims have ended: with a settlement, not a trial verdict.
In 2023, Lindell told the he was out of money and owed millions in unspecified legal fees. In January 2025, he was ordered to pay DHL $780,000 after the company said the Shakopee-based MyPillow was in violation of their contract. Those details help explain why the end of this case carries more than symbolic weight for him while he continues to pursue the Minnesota gubernatorial race after losing the Republican Party endorsement.
What the filing leaves open
The settlement settles the lawsuit, but it does not answer the most practical question left for readers tracking the case: whether the confidential agreement included any payment or other nonpublic condition beyond each side covering its own fees and expenses. Until that surfaces in another filing or statement, the public record stops at the settlement itself.
