Tag Archives: Mike Lindell

Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told a federal judge Wednesday he has no money to pay thousands of dollars in sanctions imposed in one of the long-running lawsuits against him over his false election fraud claims. During a court hearing, Lindell said he and his company face a combined $70 million in debt and ongoing garnishment …

“Will you guys also consider releasing the president’s fitness plan? He actually looks healthier than ever before. Healthier than he did eight years ago, and I’m sure everybody in this room could agree. Is he working out with Bobby Kennedy? And is he eating less McDonald’s?” – Cara Castronuova of Mike Lindell’s streaming network, who is among the sycophantic “new …

“Susan Crawford did not win in Wisconsin and the media can grab that all they want! There’s a little bit of a deviation here. They vote in voter ID, but yet the candidate that doesn’t want voter ID wins. Hello! It doesn’t happen. My team’s digging into it. This is just disgusting! I’m just getting the numbers. Numbers don’t lie. …

Politico reports: MAGA election conspiracy theorist and MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has eyes on what could be his next gig. And it isn’t selling pillows. Lindell on Monday teased a run for Minnesota governor, a race that could see him face off against popular incumbent Tim Walz, who is said to be sizing up a third term in the post. …

Law & Crime reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is refusing to pay a court-ordered debt, according to a Wednesday filing in Washington, D.C., federal court. Now, voting software company Smartmatic wants the bedding magnate held in civil contempt “for violating the clear and unambiguous terms” of a January court order that put Lindell on the hook for $56,369 over frivolous …

“There were so many down tickets that were taken. There was over there was four senators stolen, about nine congressman, judges across the country. You know, everyone said, look over here because he was too big to rig. Look over here! And what’s — You know, Donald Trump won! But we will not forget about all the other tickets down …

Law & Crime reports: The legal and financial woes for stalwart Donald Trump ally Mike Lindell continued to worsen on Monday, when a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the MyPillow founder and CEO to cough up more than $50,000 in sanctions over “frivolous” claims he made in connection with his lawsuit against voting software company Smartmatic. In the case, …

Law & Crime reports: Mike Lindell has suffered another self-inflicted loss in long-running litigation over the $5 million he owes to an engineer who proved that data the Minnesota pillow magnate claimed was definitive proof of foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election was nothing of the sort. A federal magistrate judge in the North Star State on Monday said …

Law & Crime reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is putting another lender on notice that the terms of a recent loan to his bedding company are “usurious, unconscionable, and thus unenforceable.” Last week, in Carver County District Court, the pro-Donald Trump election denier sued named and unnamed defendants over a triple-digit interest rate on a $1.559 million loan taken out …

ABC News reports: A series of emails sent by a group led and funded by MyPillow CEO and election denier Mike Lindell have been referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to federal officials, after election officers across the country began finding what they said were misleading email messages. Those emails included a survey asking for, among other things, …

Law & Crime reports: The high-dollar economic woes of Mike Lindell and his small-town Minnesota-based company MyPillow continue apace. So does the litigation. Last week, the pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theorist and his once-lucrative business sued several lending companies over the eye-popping repayment terms of a $600,000 merchant cash advance. Under the terms of the agreement signed in September, Lindell and …

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 …