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https://www.salon.com/2021/09/10/mike-lindell-held-secret-meeting-with-trump-on-reinstatement-day/
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and a group of his allies met with Donald Trump over dinner on Aug. 13 the date Lindell had previously promised would bring Trump's "reinstatement" as president sources have told Salon. The previously-unreported meeting occurred shortly after the bedding tycoon's "cyber symposium" in South Dakota, which failed to produce anything close to proof of election fraud.
Josh Merritt, a former member of Lindell's "red team" at the South Dakota gathering, told Salon that the meeting occurred at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach on the evening of Aug. 13. According to Merritt, New Mexico State University law professor David K. Clements, a Lindell associate and "election truther," talked about the potential Trump meeting ahead of time, during the cyber symposium. "David said he was trying to get on as a lawyer for 45," Merritt said adding that Clements saw Lindell's relationship with Trump as a way to gain access to the inner circles of TrumpWorld.
Following the Aug. 13 event at Mar-a-Lago, Clements took to Telegram to praise Trump and boast about their meeting. "The greatest honor of my life. My President. Your President," he wrote. "Spent an unforgettable evening with the real President of the United States."
The Office of Donald J. Trump didn't return a Salon request for comment on the meeting.
In a photo obtained by Salon, which has not been previously released, a large group of Lindell allies, including his girlfriend Kendra Reeves, pro-Trump lawyer Kurt Olsen and Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington, can all be seen seated with Lindell and Trump himself at a large dining table.
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marble falls
(57,075 posts)Scrivener7
(50,946 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)I'm not too sure I'd be putting my 'Diploma' on the wall of my office right now......
Champp
(2,114 posts)sad sacks
ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)He's no tycoon. He lies about his net worth by a factor of at least 12.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,951 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)This "tycoon's" company is worth $150 million, with pre self-destruct revenues of $152 million. (Those are down over 30%.)
The company has a debt:equity of >4.8. So, equity is a bit over $25.5 million.
That leaves total debt service of (loan periods estimated) of around $6.5 million/year. Over 4% of revenues!
Last one: his company has 1,500 employees. So, this great businessman has a company with only $100,000 per employee. (The company from which I retired, had 1,800 employees worldwide with $4 billion in revenue. $2.2 million per employee!)
And, even if we assume the high end of consumer products companies of 40% of revenues as compensation, the average is $40,000 TOTAL COMPENSATION per worker.
Not exactly the archetype of modern business efficiency.
dalton99a
(81,444 posts)NMSU professor barred from classroom in policy row
By Algernon D'Ammassa / Las Cruces Sun-News
Published: Tuesday, August 24th, 2021 at 10:05PM
LAS CRUCES Days after receiving an award for teaching excellence, a business professor at New Mexico State University has been removed from his classroom at the start of the fall semester.
David Clements, an assistant professor of finance at NMSUs College of Business, posted video of an introductory lecture in which he announced that he would not be enforcing or following the universitys COVID-19 policies on mask use or vaccines.
Clements posted the video to Rumble, a social media platform with a strong following among conservatives and libertarians as a rival to YouTube. His channel purportedly has 26,000 online followers.
As you can see, I am not wearing a mask, he tells students in the video. Why is that? Because I havent lost my mind, thats why. I will not wear a mask.
He also said he would refuse the required COVID-19 vaccination or weekly testing for the disease.
Initech
(100,063 posts)Alex Jones too! I can't wait to see both of these traitorous scumbags locked up!