As MyPillow CEO and rebel fanatic Mike Lindell heads to one more trial about his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, he isn’t precisely in nice form.
You’re forgiven in case you have no thought which Lindell trial this may be. The person has sued and been sued so many occasions now that his legal professionals tried to give up as a result of he seems to be too broke to pay them. That is the case in federal court docket in Colorado, the place Lindell has been sued by Eric Coomer, a former worker of Dominion Voting Techniques. Coomer alleges that Lindell, throughout an “Antifa convention name,” accused him of rigging the 2020 election.
Lindell has insisted he has no thought who Coomer is or why he would have focused Lindell in a lawsuit. That could be a pretty regular protection, and it’s on Coomer to show Lindell focused him. However Coomer probably hasn’t counted on Lindell’s newest principle about who rigged the 2020 election: Devil.
Whereas talking at a press convention earlier than the beginning of the trial, Lindell posited that Devil was behind the try by “the uniparty, the Deep State, Globalists, and the [Chinese Communist Party]” to rig the election. Why Devil? As a result of America has turned its again on God. Bought it.
Lindell previewed one other top-notch authorized technique when he appeared on former White Home adviser Steve Bannon’s podcast on the eve of trial. He’s considering bringing considered one of his pillows to court docket as a result of he’s offended that an lawyer for Coomer referred to as the pillows “lumpy” (they’re!) throughout a deposition again in 2023.
Lindell may be very fixated on the concept that it’s Coomer and the deep state are what harmed MyPillow gross sales, not his personal unhinged antics. Moreover his protection about not figuring out Coomer, Lindell can also be planning on getting on the stand to speak about how Newsmax settling a related lawsuit with Coomer allegedly harm his MyPillow enterprise to the tune of $20 million.
How would a settlement in a distinct defamation lawsuit harm MyPillow? Per Lindell, since Newsmax settled with Coomer, they gained’t have Lindell on to speak about his pillows any longer.
This isn’t a brand new lament for Lindell. In 2023, he claimed he was out $100 million for his steadfast devotion to proving that Trump gained the 2020 election. Lindell obtained to that determine solely by together with enterprise losses for MyPillow, claiming that retailers had stopped carrying the pillows. Gosh, why wouldn’t main retailers wish to carry the pillows manufactured by a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist so dedicated to overturning the election that he launched MyPillow advertising and marketing campaigns the place true patriots may get reductions with codes like “FightforTrump” and “QAnon”?
Lindell probably isn’t mendacity about being broke, and it’s not clear how he’s retaining this litigation going. He has sued his personal lenders after borrowing $10 million to maintain MyPillow’s doorways open. He was informed to pay $5 million to a pc forensics professional who proved that Lindell’s personal knowledge didn’t present interference by China within the 2020 election. Why did that price Lindell $5 million? As a result of he actually promised that quantity to anybody who may disprove his fever dream.
On high of that, he owes greater than $50,000 to Smartmatic, one other voting machine firm Lindell believes helped rig the election. And that’s not even counting the cash he owes in fits unrelated to the 2020 election, such because the $778,000 that MyPillow was ordered to pay delivery service DHL for unpaid payments.
You’ll suppose that having witnessed Fox Information handing over $787 million to settle Dominion’s defamation lawsuit in opposition to the community might need tipped Lindell off that persevering with to litigate it is a shedding proposition. Lindell, although, says he’ll “by no means cease preventing” to get digital voting machines banned and return to hand-counted paper ballots.
Lindell is considered one of Trump’s staunchest troopers, however that by some means hasn’t translated into Trump bestowing any money on him or giving him a prestigious administration job. As an alternative, Lindell appears to be receiving the identical therapy as former New York Metropolis Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who additionally continues to endure crushing defeats in court docket however has by no means wavered in his assist for Trump. Sure, he was disbarred in Washington, D.C., and needed to file for chapter and has been criminally charged, however all of this may assist him “in heaven,” he says.
Lindell, in the meantime, goes to maintain on retaining on, saving the nation from Devil and the benefit of voting machines. An actual American hero.
