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PSPS

(13,600 posts)
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 04:26 PM Jan 2021

MyPillow Guy Presents Trump With 'China' Election-Fraud Theory, Lawyers Send Him Packing

In the final week of his presidency, Donald Trump met in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon with Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO and a personal friend of the president’s who presented Trump with six pages of documents, loaded with unproven conspiracy theories, that he told him proved that China and other countries helped steal the 2020 election for Joe Biden. Lindell says that after a “five-to-ten minute meeting” in the Oval, Trump asked someone to take the MyPillow inventor to a different room to show his documents to “the lawyers,” and then asked for staff to bring Lindell back afterwards. Following a roughly two-hour wait, according to Lindell, he finally met with White House attorneys who dismissed his claims but said they would “look into it.” He was then not allowed to see the president again on Friday.

The Daily Beast could not confirm with other sources if the people Lindell met with were attorneys or other White House staff. “Maybe [Trump] got busy, I don’t know,” Lindell said in an interview on Friday evening. During the meeting, Lindell says that he informed President Trump—who after inspiring a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last week still hasn’t accepted that his Democratic opponent beat him in the 2020 presidential election—that materials alleging China and other nations’ involvement in a supposed anti-Trump election-hacking operation were “all over the internet,” but were being suppressed by Big Tech.

In the brief meeting, Lindell, a staunch Trump ally (who has also been a major financial backer of several legal efforts and rallies to try to nullify the 2020 election outcome) told the president, “Mr. President, this is real, you really won by at least 10 million votes.” Lindell said Trump replied by saying, “Well, yeah, we all know there was fraud, Mike.”

Then, Lindell added, “He was upset to hear that this was happening to all the people who backed him for all these four years. He said, ‘Can you believe how they’re treating us out there?’” Asked about other things the president told him during the meeting, Lindell simply described the rest of the conversation as mostly “generic.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story.

More at: https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillow-guy-presents-trump-with-china-election-fraud-theory-lawyers-send-him-packing

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diva77

(7,643 posts)
1. This post needs bold letters "NOT THE ONION!!"
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 04:30 PM
Jan 2021


K&R for further exposure of the absurdity mixed in with the danger of this situation

Bev54

(10,053 posts)
4. I wonder if they really sent him packing or
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 04:38 PM
Jan 2021

is that their statement now that they know his notes were out in public.

struggle4progress

(118,291 posts)
6. "White House lawyers have now been replaced by shape-shifting body-snatching alien lizard people!
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 04:46 PM
Jan 2021

Where is the real President Trump? Congress refuses to investigate! Martial law needed immediately to save America!"

global1

(25,252 posts)
8. How Does A Pillow Salesman Have Access To The White House And The President?.....
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 04:52 PM
Jan 2021

Unless - he contacted Trump and said that he has a way to assure that Trump will maintain his presidency and he needed to talk to Trump.

He had to have Trump's ok to come to the WH and meet with him and in fact - he did.

If that is the case - Trump is still plotting a coup to maintain his power and was party to a conspiracy to do so with this 'pillow salesman' whether he acts on pillow man's suggestion or not.

Isn't this enough proof for the Repug Senators to convict in the upcoming impeachment trial?

PSPS

(13,600 posts)
11. Because he flatters him. That's all it is. The door is open to any and all sycophants.
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 06:07 PM
Jan 2021

Plus he's a "as seen on TV" guy. trump has treated his entire term as if it were a reality show.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
10. Steve Bannon appears to be running this
Sat Jan 16, 2021, 05:20 PM
Jan 2021

Vomit Parade. Have not heard from Pat Byrnns of Overstock Fame for a while. Understand he is preaching the same bullshit via his facebook and twitter. He as well as Lindell have been funding tons of these Right Wing Nut jobs.

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