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Mike Lindell Gets Handed A Major Court Loss That Could Cost Him Millions

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been complaining for over two years that his efforts to help overturn the results of the 2020 election have cost him a significant share of his once-thriving business, and a ruling Monday could wind up costing him even more money if he’s found guilty.

Politico reports that Lindell was a handed a major loss from a judge in Minnesota:

A Minnesota District Court judge on Monday denied MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s motion to throw out a lawsuit brought by a voting technology company that claims he defamed it by pushing the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen.

Smartmatic, a company that provided election technology and services to Los Angeles in the 2020 election, alleges in the complaint that both Lindell and MyPillow defamed the voting tech company by falsely promoting the theory that its machines had been hacked or rigged in favor of President Joe Biden. Lindell is a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump and has falsely maintained since 2020 that Trump won the election over Biden.

The legal reasoning used by Lindell and his attorneys was flimsy at best and included these specious arguments

  • Smartmatic failed to adequately plea the defamation claim.
  • The deceptive trade practices was unfair because Lindell was acting in a personal, not professional, capacity.
  • Lindell’s comments are protected by the First Amendment.

U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright ruled that Smartmatic has indeed alleged facts sufficient to its claim of defamation and that Lindell acted with actual malice when he made them.

Lindell has also been trying to separate the case against him from his company, which could be bankrupted by a large financial judgement, but Judge Wright also rejected that claim:

The court concluded that MyPillow can be vicariously liable for Lindell’s actions, since the CEO intentionally promoted MyPillow while allegedly defaming Smartmatic in the media and during public appearances. The court also maintained that Smartmatic can pursue its claim that Lindell violated the Minnesota Deceptive Trade Practice law, since the company has alleged sufficient evidence to its claim that Lindell’s statements were made in part to promote MyPillow.

Maybe Lindell can get Trump to give him some money to prop up his failing pillow venture, but that seems unlikely since there are reports that the ex-president is also teetering on financial collapse.

 

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Hardee’s Trolls Mike Lindell After His Cell Phone Is Seized By The FBI At One Of Their Restaurants

On Tuesday, FBI agents reportedly seized the cell phone of Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow while he was at a Hardee’s restaurant as part of the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation of efforts by former president Donald and some of his supporters to overturn the results of the 2020 election, CNN reported.

Lindell shared on social media and conservative media copies of a subpoena he said was served by the FBI.

In an interview with CNN, Lindell said agents asked him questions about Tina Peters, the Mesa County, Colorado, clerk who is facing state charges connected to a scheme that allegedly allowed an unauthorized person to access voting machines. Peters has pleaded not guilty.

Lindell then went on his podcast, “The Lindell Report,” and remarked:

“Cars pulled up in front of us, to the side of us and behind us and I said, ‘These are either bad guys or the FBI.’ Well, it turns out they were the FBI.”

On Wednesday morning, Hardee’s decided to have a bit of fun with Lindell while also doing a bit of free advertising for its food with this Twitter posting:

“Pillowy biscuits.” Very nice touch.

That was all it took to set off a wave of laughter aimed directly at Lindell.

 

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Mike Lindell Gets Relentlessly Mocked After Announcing He’s Filing A Lawsuit Against ‘All Machines’

Don’t be surprised if your microwave or smart TV is asking you to recommend a good attorney pretty soon, because MyPillow CEO and election conspiracist Mike Lindell announced Saturday in Arizona that he’s filing a suit against “all machines.”

Lindell was probably trying to say he was going after voting machines, especially since he’s been attacking Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic (both of whom manufacture voting machines), but he didn’t say voting machines, just machines.

On a side note, Lindell is currently being sued for defamation by both Dominion and Smartmatic.

Speaking on behalf of wackadoodle Arizona GOP wackadoodle gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, Lindell told the sparse crowd in attendance:

“It’s a class action lawsuit against all machines and that they’re defective devices. I have lawyers who worked on this for five months.

“We’re getting county commissioners, county clerks, they’re all the plaintiffs. And we’ve already got about 300 onboard. And we’re going to rid of these machines once and for all for any election in history.”

However, considering that Lindell has been filing lawsuits since last November and has yet to win a single one of them, it’s safe to assume that his latest legal foray will end in humiliation, too.

But the mention of “all machines” is what got the attention of Twitter users, who lit Lindell up.

 

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Mike Lindell Says He Has Enough Evidence To Prosecute ‘300 Million’ Americans For Voter Fraud

Based on what he’s saying these days, it’s a fair to wonder if perhaps MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell has gone back to smoking crack.

Lindell used to have a bad crack habit, and what he said on Real America’s Voice recently suggest he’s using some mind-altering substance.

According to Right Wing Watch, Lindell is now claiming that 300 million Americans committed voter fraud in the 2020 election:

“Everything you’re going to see over these next seven months to get rid of the [voting] machines. You’re going to see the Supreme Court case coming out. All these great things, everybody.

“And you talk about evidence. We have enough evidence to put everybody in prison for life, 300 and some million people. We have that all the way back to November and December.”

There’s an estimated 329 million people in the United States, and 300 million of us are going to prison for life? Damn! Sounds like the only business that’s going to be left is the prison industrial complex, which would probably delight Lindell, who likely imagines putting everyone who disagrees with him in concentration camps, especially if they refuse to worship his lord and savior, Donald Trump.

In 2021, Lindell said the Supreme Court would overturn the 2020 election around Thanksgiving. Then the holiday passed and he had to change the date again. Now he’s changed the timeframe to “the next seven months.” Why? So he can continue to fleece the gullible MAGA faithful out of contributions and sales of his shitty, overpriced pillows.

As with Trump, it’s all about the grift.

 

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Verizon Bans Mike Lindell From Sending His Lies Via Text Message – Endless Whining Ensues

Poor Mike Lindell. His conspiracy theories and lies are blowing up in his face and now he’s losing the ability to grift money from the brainless hordes of MAGA faithful who believed his assurances that failed, one-term former President Donald Trump would be reinstated by now.

On Wednesday, Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, revealed that Verizon has banned him from sending out his text messages in which he spreads his bullshit and begs for donations to get Trump back in office.

Broadcasting on his FrankSpeech platform, Lindell had this to say:

“If you haven’t been getting text marketing or any texts from FrankSpeech and you’re wondering why that you’ve been taken off a list. No, it’s just because Verizon has stopped us from doing our text marketing. Just another big platform that went — I don’t know — that went south on us, that went left on us. They left us.”

Of course they left him! Verizon doesn’t want to be associated with a con man who’s trying to make a buck by feeding misinformation to morons.

Lindell also said that he and his legal team had just completed revisions to his “Supreme Court case.” That’s the very same case he said would be accepted by the high court back in November. It wasn’t because not a single state attorney general agreed to be a part of the case:

“The changes have been made and they’re going out this week to the AGs and we’ll get the ones that want to sign.”

They didn’t sign before, but he thinks they will now. That’s the very definition of clueless.

Earlier in the day, Lindell appeared on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast and predicted the Supreme Court would agree to hear his revised lawsuit with a 9-0 ruling:

“The evidence that’s there now would overturn and bring down everything.”

What’s going to be interesting to see is what Lindell says when 2021 becomes 2022, the Supreme Court doesn’t hear his lawsuit, and he’s stuck with egg on his face. Maybe he can lay down on one of his shitty, overpriced pillows and hibernate for a few decades.