Mike Lindell

Donald Trump ranted about the 2020 election on Truth Social after the FBI seized Mike Lindell's phone at a Hardee's drive-thru in Minnesota.

He’s had plenty of chance to do so, as several figures connected to the president It’s not clear whether Lindell himself is a target of the investigation. Peters has pleaded not guilty to the charges connected to the alleged scheme, and Lindell has told the Times that he has directed over $200,000 to Peters’ legal defense. “They took my phone that I run my business, that I run everything with.” The majesty of the United States is gone. Our Country is a laughing stock all over the World.

Lindell, a prominent Trump supporter and promoter of baseless conspiracies about the 2020 election, said the FBI served him with a grand jury subpoena ...

[notably](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/08/11/dominion-lawsuits-against-sidney-powell-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-and-giuliani-can-move-forward-court-rules/?sh=2b0afd465d21) by Dominion Voting Systems and [Smartmatic](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/01/18/voting-company-smartmatic-sues-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-for-defamation/?sh=2eea4c577e29) for defamation, and [says](https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/01/19/theyre-trying-to-cancel-me-retailers-drop-mypillow-amid-ceos-baseless-voter-fraud-claims/?sh=2863fb496863) he has been canceled by major retailers in retaliation for his claims. His appearance in the case against Peters, who has pleaded not guilty to charges over a ploy to download data from voting machines, ties local investigations to the broader nationwide movement to overturn the election, in which Lindell is a prominent figure. He has been sued for his continued unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud, Lindell previously said he had funded Peters’ legal defense directly, though later retracted the statement and said he had been mistaken, according to the Times. Lindell also told the Times he had provided as much as $200,000 to Peters’ legal defense fund via his own legal fund. Lindell also said the agents asked him about an image copied from a voting machine that was uploaded to Frank Speech, a site he operates.

FBI agents surprised My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell at a Hardee's parking lot, pulling in front of him. "These are either the bad guys or FBI," he said.

Lindell said the papers he was served labeled it an "official criminal investigation of a suspected felony" with the use of a federal grand jury. "I'm not scared to go to jail. In May, he was been banned from Twitter for a second time after trying to use a new account. I'm trying to save my country." Lindell, who founded MyPillow in 2004, has been a key ally for Trump and has continued to protest the 2020 election by pushing baseless claims and conspiracy theories. ...I want to say this for the record: They were pretty nice guys.

MyPillow Inc. CEO Mike Lindell, an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump and his discredited theories about the 2020 election, said the FBI ...

[ordered Lindell to pay legal fees](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-19/mypillow-s-lindell-sanctioned-over-frivolous-election-suit) and costs incurred by a voting technology firm he accused in a “frivolous” lawsuit of rigging the 2020 presidential election. After he was approached, Lindell said officers told him they had "some bad news” and presented him with a search warrant for his phone. In addition, subpoenas were recently sent to dozens of campaign operatives and Trump allies, including former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik.

MAGA-world's favorite grifter and one of the internet's most rabid white Christian nationalists have gone into business together.

He’s said that he hopes the Supreme Court is on track to ban homosexuality, and in five years, “we’ll be throwing them [gay people] off of roofs.” He also has McGeachin faced calls to resign after participating in AFPAC, and once abruptly [ended an interview](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-governor-candidate-janice-mcgeachin-interview-white-nationalists_n_62327133e4b019fd81287daf) when asked by a reporter about her relationship with Foxx. Both McGeachin and Foxx spoke at this year’s AFPAC, a conference hosted by Foxx (McGeachin spoke by video). On the Berkeley video, Foxx is heard egging on RAM members to assault their political opponents, according to ProPublica, at one point yelling “Get that fucking cuck!” [posed for photos](https://www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/idaho-lt-gov-janice-mcgeachin-was-pictured-vincent-james-foxx-white-nationalist) with Lt. white Mike Lindell, to the white man himself,” said Foxx. He also continues to stream via his channel Red Elephants, blog on his site Daily Veracity, and broadcast on Fuentes’ platform, Cozy.tv. [ first reported on by Right Wing Watch,](https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mike-lindell-is-bankrolling-white-nationalist-christian-fascist-vincent-james/) Foxx announced that Lindell had bestowed upon him a special code offering viewers a major discount on Lindell’s infamous pillows. “Let’s get a big o7s in the chat to Mr. Through his media company “The Red Elephants,” Foxx put together slickly-produced videos glorifying brawls involving RAM members in Huntington Beach, California, and was later invited to shadow the group as they fought leftists in a violent clash in Berkeley. “Because he has given us an opportunity to sell some pillows on DailyVeracity.com, which is awesome. “And I’m like, ‘Say no more, fam.

The agents questioned him about Dominion Voting Systems, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and his connection to Doug Frank, an Ohio educator who claims voting ...

The charges against Peters and Knisley allege the two were involved in a “deceptive scheme which was designed to influence public servants, breach security protocols, exceed permissible access to voting equipment, and set in motion the eventual distribution of confidential information to unauthorized people.” meeting with community groups claiming to have evidence that voting machines were rigged in the 2020 election. In court records, prosecutors say Frank met with Peters and members of her staff in April 2021 in her office. Experts have described the unauthorized release as serious, saying it provided a potential “practice environment” that would allow anyone to probe for vulnerabilities that could be exploited during a future election. The Republican was elected in 2018 to oversee elections in Colorado’s Mesa County. The agents then told Lindell they had a warrant to seize his cellphone and ordered him to turn it over, he said.

It's tempting to dismiss Mike Lindell as a silly sideshow, but as the FBI seizes his phone, the Trump insider is facing a serious situation.

[report](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/politics/mike-lindell-search-warrant-investigation.html), he was asked not to tell anyone about the investigation, but he did the opposite, not only displaying the FBI’s letter on camera as part of an online broadcast, but also literally reading portions of it out loud. The agents then told Lindell they had a warrant to seize his cellphone and ordered him to turn it over, he said. [was seen](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/05/jan-6-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-subpoena-526582) at the White House after the Jan. 6 [subpoenaed](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/05/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-says-phone-records-subpoenaed-by-house-jan-6-committee.html) Lindell’s records, no one was especially surprised. [Mike Lindell](https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/mike-lindell-my-slippers-trump-rcna46046) as a silly sideshow. The MyPillow CEO has earned a reputation as a clownish figure in Donald Trump’s orbit, pushing [strange conspiracy theories](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/mike-lindell-s-unfortunate-week-gets-quite-bit-worse-n1276743) and making outlandish claims about the former president’s imminent reinstatement.

The prominent promoter of 2020 election conspiracies says the F.B.I. seized his cellphone and asked him about his ties to a Colorado county clerk who is ...

Lindell said that the F.B.I. Lindell is the target of a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, which provides voting machines to Mesa County and other jurisdictions and which Mr. Lindell has claimed was responsible for changing the outcome of the 2020 election. Lindell earlier told The Times that he had funneled as much as $200,000 to her legal defense via his legal fund, the Lindell Legal Offense Fund, through which he had said third-party donors supported various lawsuits and projects. The F.B.I. Data that was purported to have come from the machines was later distributed at a conference hosted by Mr. “I was financing everything back then,” he said, referring to the various lawsuits that had been filed in relation to the 2020 election. asked that he not tell anyone about the investigation, but he displayed a copy of the letter and the search warrant on his online TV show Tuesday evening, reading portions of it aloud. Peters, he said, and about an image copied from a voting machine in Mesa County that had appeared on Frank Speech, a website and hosting platform that Mr. The agents presented him with a search and seizure warrant and interviewed him for about 15 minutes. The search is a sign that a federal investigation into Ms. Lindell, the chief executive and founder of MyPillow, is a major promoter of debunked theories that keep alive the false notion that the election was stolen from former President Donald J.

There's not a lot that's funny about Donald Trump's year-plus-long attempt to overturn the 2020 election, but one aspect of it that definitely is?

[90% of the country](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/12/are-you-one-1-11-americans-mike-lindell-doesnt-want-arrest/)had taken part in a scheme to steal a second term from Trump, stating in January 2022 that he had “enough evidence to put everybody in prison for life, 300-and-some million people” There’s not a lot that’s funny about Donald Trump’s year-plus-long attempt to overturn the 2020 election, but one aspect of it that definitely is? [reinstated](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/donald-trump-august-reinstatement)as president in [August 2021](https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lindell-claims-august-13-trump-reinstatement-2021-7), after election inquiries would prove the vote was rigged Also known as the [reportedly](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/05/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-says-phone-records-subpoenaed-by-house-jan-6-committee.html)meeting with various Trump advisers on January 5 at the Trump International Hotel to “discuss election-related matters,” which he denies [$35 million](https://www.newyorker.com/news/american-chronicles/the-election-official-who-tried-to-prove-stop-the-steal)to prove the election results were fraudulent

Plus PCOC unstaffed, Brett Favre's text messes, and Wisconsin is... good? in today's Flyover.

[sexual harassment](https://twitter.com/jennifersterger/status/1569838174536634373). “Looking at [Gunslinger] now, if I’m being brutally honest—I’d advise people not to read it,” [he wrote](https://twitter.com/jeffpearlman/status/1569830493851615233). [he explained](https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1570026643032358914?s=20&t=Hw6MKEIWXh7DeTuX5l5rqg) via his podcast (… (In reality, we’re betting that Lindell was one of the 40-plus people connected to Trump whose [phones were seized concerning](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/us/politics/trump-aides-jan-6-doj.html) the January 6 insurrection this week.) He’s been making the rounds since the incident, taking interviews from [the Minnesota Reformer](https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/09/13/mike-lindell-says-the-fbi-seized-his-cell-phone-at-a-mankato-hardees/), [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/mike-lindell-phone-seized-fbi-subpoena-my-pillow/index.html), and our neighborhood Twitter fear monger Rebecca Brannon, who [had his name and number ](https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1569888680428589057?s=20&t=DawWM9acWOJEi3e1zLRbHg)already in her phone (the only phone he has?). I don’t have a computer, I do everything on that phone, and everything is on there,”

MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell said Tuesday that federal agents seized his cellphone and questioned him about a Colorado clerk who has been charged ...

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Ever since Lindell angrily pulled his ads last year after Fox wouldn't air his election-fraud promo, MyPillow commercials have run at a higher clip than ...

Fox News and Lindell did not immediately respond to requests for comment. [accused the right-wing channel](https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillow-mike-lindells-new-theory-is-fox-news-and-dominion-were-in-cahoots-to-cancel-lou-dobbs) of asking Dominion to sue them for defamation just so they could fire Trump-boosting host Lou Dobbs, who was one of Fox’s loudest election deniers. “The FBI has just raided the guy who sells pillows on this channel, not because the pillows were bad, but because they didn’t like who he voted for.” (Fellow Fox News primetime host Laura Ingraham [would also bemoan](https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3993774) the seizure that evening, claiming it was the action of President Joe Biden’s “vindictive Justice Department.”) When was the last time you’ve seen anybody on Fox talk about the 2020 election? “They won’t talk about anything. Tucker Carlson, whose primetime show runs the most MyPillow ads of any Fox News program, groused about the seizure on Tuesday night—naturally likening it to authoritarianism. After Peters was arrested this spring over the breach, Lindell Per Media Matters’ data, some recent months have seen over 700 individual ads run on the channel, and last month saw more than 600 commercials on Fox News. Furthermore, Media Matters reported that since January 2017, Tucker Carlson Tonight has run nearly 3,500 MyPillow commercials. [shame on Fox News](https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillow-pulling-ads-from-fox-says-its-because-they-wont-run-election-fraud-commercial)” over the network’s refusal to promote his farcical election-fraud event, and then [using that conference](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-is-snubbing-mike-lindells-symposium-and-the-mypillow-guy-is-pissed) to call Fox “disgusting,” he eventually [slunk back to Fox](https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillow-guy-mike-lindell-returns-to-fox-news-with-ad-whining-about-cancel-culture) last September ( [after claiming](https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-caves-to-fox-news-says-ads-to-start-next-week) he was losing $1 million a week in sales). [also planned a protest](https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-plans-to-stage-protest-outside-fox-news-headquarters) outside of Fox News headquarters in November, saying the network was “controlled opposition” and a “big part of our country being taken from us.” And [during a Trump rally this winter](https://sports.yahoo.com/mike-lindell-rages-disgusting-fox-010957025.html), he grumbled that the “biggest problem” Trump supporters face is conservative media that won’t devote itself to election conspiracies. (Lindell, [like Fox News](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-corp-fox-news-parent-must-face-dominions-election-fraud-defamation-suit-judge-rules), faces [billion-dollar lawsuits](https://thehill.com/regulation/3495678-judge-sanctions-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-for-frivolous-election-lawsuit/) from voting-machine firms Smartmatic and [ Dominion](https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-allows-dominion-defamation-suits-against-rudy-giuliani-sidney-powell-mike-lindell-to-proceed).)

On Tuesday, Mike Lindell's cell phone was seized while the MyPillow founder and 2020 election denier was in a Hardee's drive through in Mankato, Minnesota.