At one point, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was just a guy trying to sell people using really weird commercials. And then he took his pillow trailer and hitched it on President Trump’s wagon and well, let’s just say that Lindell is this month’s obvious winner of the FAFO award.
For the uninitiated, the FAFO award is given to those who went all in on a dictator only to learn that what they thought they were getting isn’t what they’ve got.
Months after Trump lost the 2020 election, Lindell would tell anyone who would listen that voting machines were fixed to steal the election. He even launched his “‘Prove Mike Wrong Challenge,’ as part of a ‘Cyber Symposium’ he hosted in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in August 2021, AP notes.
He even went so far as to offer a “$5 million reward through Lindell Management for anyone who could prove that “packet captures” and other data he released there were not valid data ‘from the November 2020 election,’” according to AP.
I don’t know if Robert Zeidman is a drinker but I know that he asked someone to hold his beer as he took on Lindell’s challenge and created a 15-page report that found that Lindell’s data didn’t “contain packet data of any kind and do not contain any information related to the November 2020 election,” AP reports.
But here’s the rub: the contest really wanted to award someone who proved Lindell right and when Zeidman had unequivocal proof that the Pillow Man’s bogus claims were in fact false, they refused to reward him the money.
Zeidman filed a lawsuit and a judge found that Lindell needed to pay the man his money plus interest.
Oh and about those voting machines that Lindell claimed were rigged, some of them are owned by Dominion Voting Systems and they filed a defamation suit against Lindell for a staggering $1.3 billion. That’s not all, the other voting machines are owned by a company called Smartmatic and they’ve filed a separate defamation lawsuit against Lindell.
Life comes at you fast.
Now the CEO of MyPillow is crying in it.
From the Independent:
Lindell has been ordered to pay voting software company Smartmatic the hefty fine over false claims he made about the company flipping the 2020 election for Joe Biden. It is one of a number of lawsuits Lindell faces over false election claims.
Now the troubled CEO claims that he doesn’t even have 5 cents left to pay the company the $56,396 he owes.
“I borrowed everything I can. Nobody will lend me any money anymore. I can’t turn back time… but I will tell you, I don’t have any money,” Lindell, who was described as being “teary” by ABC News, said while appearing via Zoom Wednesday at the hearing in a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
“I’m in ruins,” he added. “I don’t have $5,000 or 5 cents,” Lindell told Judge Carl Nichols and asked for more time to pay the fine.
He claimed he has “nothing” except for two houses which are being liquidated, and a truck. The Maga loyalist was recently forced to lay off hundreds of MyPillow employees as a result of his financial hardship, the court heard.
Lindell also claimed he and his company owe more than $70m in back payments to the IRS.
Lindell has been forced to provide documents proving he’s a brokie.
“I have nothing to hide,” Lindell said.
But that isn’t quite true considering he was held in contempt of court last month “for failing to hand over financial documents and other discovery material in the defamation lawsuit brought by Smartmatic,” the Independent reports.
“We haven’t held back anything. This is all corruption,” Lindell previously told The Independent. “They want me to stop talking about our election platforms. They’re not going to silence me. I will keep going until we get to paper ballots hand counted and melt these machines down and turn them into prison bars.”
Lindell just may get the prison bars he’s asking for, but not in the way he wanted them
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