Tag: Lindell continues echoing Trump election fraud lies

Mike Lindell’s biggest gamble: Giving hard sell to baseless election fraud claims

Star Tribune logo

After a lifetime of big risks, the MyPillow CEO bet he could discredit a presidential election. 

Mike Lindell has made countless bets in his life, some that cost him everything he had.

But after the November election, the MyPillow founder made his biggest gamble yet: that he could sell America on the discredited idea that rigged voting machines cheated President Donald Trump out of a second term. Lindell has refused to let up — even after courts rejected dozens of fraud claims — and he visited the White House with notes that mentioned martial law shortly before Trump left office.

A maker of voting machines is now suing him and his Chaska-based business for $1.3 billion, far more money than either is worth. While Lindell says he’s made many narrow escapes before, the stakes for him have never been higher. Continue reading.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell spotted at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago after Dominion sues him for $1.3 billion

Raw Story Logo

Election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, who is also the CEO of MyPillow, was spotted at Mar-a-Lago this week after Dominion Voting Systems sued him for $1.3 billion.

CBS 12 reporter Jay O’Brien first reported that Lindell had visited former President Donald Trump’s resort on Thursday.

In a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit, Dominion Voting Systems accused Lindell of falsely claiming that the company had stolen the 2020 presidential election from Trump. Continue reading.

Dominion Voting Systems threatens to sue Mike Lindell, MyPillow CEO, over false claims

Officials with Dominion Voting Systems have sent Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, a legal letter warning of pending litigation over his baseless claims of widespread fraud involving their machines.

“You have positioned yourself as a prominent leader of the ongoing misinformation campaign,” the letter said, referring to his continued false claims that their systems were rigged by someone to effect the outcome.

“Litigation regarding these issues is imminent,” the letter said. Lindell is only the latest to get a warning letter from Dominion officials about potential litigation, after he and Sidney Powell, the right-wing lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani and others have continued to spread false claims about the integrity of the results the machines showed. Continue reading.