Tag Archives: Mike Lindell

AlterNet reports: Far-right election denier Mike Lindell’s MyPillow is now being advertised at a significant discount. One historian is pointing out that the pillow’s new price is a reference to a prominent neo-Nazi rallying cry. The official @MyPillowUSA X account tweeted an advertisement for its product with a posted price of $14.88. As the SPLC explained, the number “1488” is …

Law & Crime reports: Weeks after one shipping company claimed to be owed hundreds of thousands and filed suit in federal court, another is suing Mike Lindell’s MyPillow in Minnesota to collect on a debt north of three quarters of a million dollars. The Star Tribune reported that the suit filed just this week claims MyPillow owes close to $800,000 …

The Independent reports: Embattled MyPillow pitchman and vociferous election-theft conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell’s already-bad financial situation just got worse. Now, Extend, Inc, a California firm that allows merchants to provide customers with product protection plans, is accusing Lindell, who last year claimed to have been stripped of everything but his house and pickup truck, of promising, then failing, to pay …

Mediaite reports: Mike Lindell made a big production this week out of shaving his trademark mustache to “go undercover” at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. But so far, the sacrifice of his upper lip fuzz has mostly generated headlines for his spat with a 12-year-old kid — along with a widespread consensus that the child absolutely schooled him. Lindell …

“Steve Bannon unfortunately can’t hear this broadcast, which is an outrage. I ran the Bureau of Prisons in two capacities. “First, I was absolutely in charge of it for two years as Associate Attorney General under Ronald Reagan and then I was chief of staff to the guy who was in charge of it under Gerald Ford. “I do not …

The Daily Beast reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told a right-wing news outlet Sunday that he planned to shave his signature mustache in order to go “incognito” at the Democratic National Convention this week. In footage shared by conservative media identity Ben Bergquam for Real America’s Voice, Lindell, who says he was traveling to Chicago on Sunday, agreed with Bergquam …

The Associated Press reports: Prosecutors on Monday urged jurors to convict former Colorado clerk Tina Peters in a security breach of her county’s election computer system, saying she deceived government employees so she could work with outsiders affiliated with MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell to become famous. In closing arguments at Tina Peters’ trial, prosecutor Janet Drake argued that the …

“I will tell you this: If he asks me to do anything, I’m hoping it’s when we get this, when he gets in, that he puts me in charge of our, the elections, where we can get out election platform completely fixed. “I think the election bureau should be, which I have already set up, should be part of Homeland …

Law & Crime reports: Another batch of subpoenas has gone out in Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case, this time targeting MyPillow, its CEO Mike Lindell, and FrankSpeech, Lindell’s streaming app and website. The former mayor’s creditors are looking to learn more about a contract — “Talent Services Agreement” — between Giuliani and FrankSpeech, seemingly the agreement Giuliani’s attorney Gary Fischoff referenced …

Law & Crime reports: Minnesota pillow magnate Mike Lindell has lost his final lawyer in a civil lawsuit over a disastrous challenge in which he failed to prove electoral interference and is now on the hook for over $5 million. In 2021, the outspoken supporter ofTrump issued the “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge at a South Dakota election fraud symposium — …

Law & Crime reports: A Minnesota pillow magnate has been barred from enforcing subpoenas against two government-affiliated individuals he hoped to use for the basis of his defense against defamation claims. The underlying controversy would be familiar to readers as the $1.3 billion lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against MyPillow and their CEO Mike Lindell. In November 2022, the …

Law & Crime reports: Weeks after the seemingly never-ending quest to get his seized cellphone back from the feds suffered a mortal wound at the U.S. Supreme Court, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has finally agreed to dismiss the lawsuit he filed against FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. As Law&Crime has reported from the start, Lindell’s …

“Who are you from? What network is this? You run your own YouTube channel? Right. You fund it yourself? You can say whatever you want? You work for Dominion! This guy must work for Dominion and Smartmatic! “Let me tell you something, I’m the American dream on steroids! I was an ex-crack addict and found Jesus Christ! You need help! …

Wired reports: Election deniers are now advocating for a far-right sheriff’s group called the Constitutional Sheriffs to recruit an army of like-minded citizens to patrol polling stations and stop the “expected flood” of “illegal” immigrant voters. Constitutional Sheriffs are a group of elected sheriffs around the country who believe that they hold the ultimate power in their county, and are …

USA Today reports: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder and prominent election denier, who unsuccessfully argued his rights were violated when FBI agents seized his phone in 2022. The federal government was investigating the sharing of sensitive information from Colorado’s computerized voting systems. Lindell was a key ally of Donald …

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: A landlord for one of MyPillow’s manufacturing facilities has asked a judge to evict the Minnesota-based pillow giant from the premises, saying the company has failed to pay more than $200,000 in rent over the past two months MyPillow, headquartered in Chaska, has received at least four default notices since September at the Shakopee warehouse, according …

“You’d think that would be the number one story in the world. Because what’s happened in our country – and I told our real president this – here’s a bucket. Call this the bucket of common sense. Everybody is jumping into this bucket of common sense. “They look for Jesus when things are going bad. They’re praying and they’re jumping …

“We’re able to add new evidence that just came about three months ago. This evidence is more explosive than any evidence I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot. This is gonna shock the world on Thursday, and it’s — Lou, I’ve never been more optimistic and excited. “I really believe these Supreme Court justices — they have grandchildren, children, …

Denver’s NBC affiliate reports: Conservative political activist and DCF Guns co-owner Joe Oltmann, who has long used violent political rhetoric, is now calling for the execution of President Joe Biden. Oltmann made the comment Friday on MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell’s far-right broadcast network, FrankSpeech . Oltmann was reacting to President Joe Biden’s support for a ban on so-called assault weapons in …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge on Wednesday affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell said proves China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Lindell, a prominent promoter of false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the 2020 election, launched …