MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell melts down in 2020 election deposition

Outstanding Donald Trump supporter and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell repeatedly lost his temper, left the room and swore at opposing counsel during a series of depositions earlier this yr, in accordance with newly released videos and transcripts.

The extraordinary interviews were conducted as a part of a defamation lawsuit brought by Dr. Eric Coomer, former director of product strategy and security at Dominion Voting Systems, who has accused Lindell of repeatedly defaming him in public and online following Trump’s loss within the 2020 presidential race.

“Don’t sit and scold me already, mister. I’ll do whatever I actually have to do,” Lindell said initially of a March 8 deposition, addressing Coomer’s attorney. “You are only a lawyer. You are an ambulance-chasing lawyer, so don’t start with me. I got all day. I’ll take as much time as you would like, so let’s go. You are not my boss. You are only a lawyer, a frivolous lawyer. So go. Don’t start scolding me.”

Watch the Lindell depositions here

The videos and transcripts only got here to light because attorneys for Coomer said they’ve tried to depose Lindell thrice, and every time he was “vulgar, threatening, loud, disrespectful to Dr. Coomer’s counsel and the Court, evasive, and largely non-responsive to questioning,” they wrote this month.

CNBC reached out to Lindell for a response, and he called the lawsuit “frivolous” and “a disgrace to our country.”

Coomer’s original suit claims that Lindell accused him of being “a traitor to america,” based on a false conspiracy theory that the previous Dominion worker was involved with rigging votes within the 2020 election.

“[Lindell] has claimed, without evidence, that Dr. Coomer committed treason and that he should turn himself into the authorities,” the unique lawsuit alleged. Lindell and his attorneys have denied the claims.

Individually, Dominion is within the midst of a $1.3 billion legal battle with Lindell, claiming the Minnesota-based conspiracy theorist repeatedly made false claims concerning the company rigging voting machines within the 2020 presidential election.

Lindell’s most up-to-date deposition in August “ended after Mr. Lindell left the witness chair during an unscheduled break while, again, disparaging counsel,” Coomer’s lawyers wrote. The attorneys have requested that the court order Lindell to return to Denver to be deposed a fourth time.

The tapes and transcripts of the depositions show Lindell clearly getting agitated with the attorneys.

In a deposition on March 9, Lindell said his pillow and bed linens business “might be down — I do not know— half, greater than half, due to all these items,” in accordance with the newly released transcript.

Lindell’s deposition a day earlier didn’t go any smoother, in accordance with the tapes of the interview.

“Have you ever ever been in a deposition where they can not stand who you might be?” Lindell snapped at Coomer’s lawyers on March 8. “You are disgusting. Keep going,” he added.