Tag Archives: Mike Lindell

The Daily Beast reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has hired former Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson, who was sidelined by the ultra-conservative cable network after pushing bonkers COVID-19 conspiracy theories. On Monday evening, the pillow executive told The Daily Beast that his web-based “Frank Speech” live-streaming platform had hired Robinson. Late last year, the ex-Newsmax personality baselessly tweeted that …

Mediaite reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell rebuked Fox News on Saturday for not promoting 2020 election conspiracy theories. “They won’t talk about anything,” Lindell said. “When was the last time you’ve seen anybody on Fox talk about the 2020 election? You’re not going to see it.” Speaking at the Save America rally in Florence, AZ, Lindell argued that the biggest …

Raw Story reports: “Everything you’re going to see over these next seven months to get rid of the [voting] machines,” he said. “You’re going to see the Supreme Court case coming out. All these great things, everybody.” Lindell insisted that he has the “pieces of the puzzle” to prove the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. “And you …

CNBC reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, an ally of former President Donald Trump, said his phone records have been subpoenaed by the House committee investigating the origins of the deadly riot that took place on Jan. 6. The revelation came after CNBC reported last month that Lindell has spent $25 million since Election Day 2020 to push false claims of …

The Daily Beast reports: On his Thursday evening live stream, Lindell railed against “bots” and “trolls” that have been posing questions and statements on his Facebook page, such as: “Mike, you keep making promises. I don’t see Donald Trump.” Then, referring to his own fans growing impatient with his own fruitless promises, Lindell fired back: “Those are bots and trolls. …

CNBC reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told CNBC he is ready to go broke pushing the false claim that the election was stolen from Donald Trump while proclaiming that the election system needs extensive changes. Lindell said he has spent $25 million of his own money since Election Day to fuel his campaign. And he plans to keep spending to …

The Huffington Post reports: Lindell has been claiming since summer that he was coordinating a lawsuit among “tons” of state attorneys general, as many as 30, to be filed at 9 a.m. Tuesday directly with the U.S. Supreme Court and that he would spend the long Thanksgiving weekend explaining the suit during an ad-free webcast. On Friday, Lindell appeared on …

The Independent reports: Pro-Trump pillow magnate Mike Lindell has claimed millions were tuning in to his “Great Patriot Thanks-A-Thon” streaming special, but the metrics suggest otherwise. Mr Lindell, a conspiracy theorist, began hosting a 96-hour live stream at 1am EST on Thanksgiving Day, where he promised to discuss his Supreme Court complaint seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 …

Yahoo News reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell released a copy of his long-promised Supreme Court complaint to overturn the 2020 presidential election, though it had not actually been filed and it listed the plaintiff as “[insert your state].” The pillow magnate turned conspiracy theorist has vowed again and again that he would file an election fraud complaint directly to the …

The Daily Beast reports: MyPillow chief and 2020 dead-ender Mike Lindell has long promised that he would file an election-fraud complaint with the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning. But now he claims to have missed that goal because he was silenced by Republican National Committee Chairperson Ronna McDaniel. It was a last-minute pressure campaign orchestrated by the RNC and McDaniel …

The Colorado Newsline reports: Tina Peters, the Mesa County clerk who is under criminal investigation for her alleged involvement in a security breach of election systems in her own office, appeared on a video call last week with supporters of the Three Percenter militia. The video was posted Thursday on the America’s Mom Facebook page, which is operated by Sherronna …

The Daily Beast reports: MyPillow CEO and 2020 dead-ender Mike Lindell has announced plans to organize a protest outside Fox News’ New York City headquarters. “We are going to do something out in front of Fox News, I think we should have—you know, if people want to go down there, maybe we should give out Frank Speech signs,” Lindell stated …

The Washington Post reports: Federal and state investigators are examining an attempt to breach an Ohio county’s election network that bears striking similarities to an incident in Colorado earlier this year, when government officials helped an outsider gain access to the county voting system in an effort to find fraud. Data obtained in both instances were distributed at an August …

Colorado Politics reports: Federal, state and local authorities searched the homes of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and three of her associates on Tuesday as part of an investigation into accusations the elected official was involved in voting machine security breaches, according to an official who helped conduct the searches. The FBI carried out a court-ordered search of Peters’ home …

Mediaite reports: The number of Republicans who believe that former President Donald Trump will be “reinstated” to the presidency this year has actually gone up by a third since last month — even as the end of the year draws closer. Respondents to the poll were asked “How likely or unlikely do you think it is that Donald Trump will …

The Huffington Post reports: The pillow magnate who brought the idea of “martial law” to Donald Trump’s White House in the days after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol and who later promised Trump’s “reinstatement” in August is now planning an election-fraud marathon over the busiest shopping days of the year. Lindell claims he will have “tons” of …

“What I love about this — they said, hey, if you just get Trump out, orange man bad, and you get Biden, you can start having holidays again without arguing at the table and at each other’s throats. “But Mike Lindell comes in, and he’s going to go the Wednesday, the eve of Thanksgiving, on a marathon, so you can …

Raw Story reports: During a podcast, Lindell said that he would begin presenting his case to the Supreme Court two days before Thanksgiving, which he predicted would captivate the world. “Guess who’s going to talk about it for four days over Thanksgiving? Every person in the world!” he said. “Everybody’s watching for this!” He then predicted that all nine Supreme …

Salon reports: As Republicans and denizens of TrumpWorld increasingly distance themselves from MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, he even finds himself at odds with Newsmax, a previously supportive far-right news channel. Last week, Lindell said on his live-streaming site Frank Speech that Newsmax, which increasingly seeks to position itself as a further-right alternative to Fox News, had pulled all its ads …

The Washington Post reports: A Colorado judge on Wednesday prohibited a local official who has embraced conspiracy theories from overseeing November’s election, finding she breached and neglected her duties and was “untruthful” when she brought in someone who was not a county employee to copy the hard drives of Dominion Voting Systems machines. The effort by Mesa County Clerk Tina …