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Nevilledog

(51,069 posts)
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 05:05 PM Sep 2021

Mike Lindell held a secret meeting with Trump on "reinstatement day."





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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Mike Lindell held a secret meeting with Trump on "reinstatement day." (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2021 OP
And they both walked away muttering, "... that jackass ...". marble falls Sep 2021 #1
Did they have it in their tree house? And use their secret handshake? Scrivener7 Sep 2021 #2
If I was a New Mexico State Law grad........ MyOwnPeace Sep 2021 #3
Losers (R) Champp Sep 2021 #4
"Bedding Tycoon"! ProfessorGAC Sep 2021 #5
Just like TFG- no wonder they get along so well. Prof. Toru Tanaka Sep 2021 #6
More Fun Facts For You ProfessorGAC Sep 2021 #7
NMSU professor barred from classroom dalton99a Sep 2021 #8
How has he not been dragged before the senate? Initech Sep 2021 #9
Why do I imagine Mike Lindell's girlfriend having a great big mustache? Poiuyt Sep 2021 #10

MyOwnPeace

(16,925 posts)
3. If I was a New Mexico State Law grad........
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 05:15 PM
Sep 2021

I'm not too sure I'd be putting my 'Diploma' on the wall of my office right now......

ProfessorGAC

(64,995 posts)
7. More Fun Facts For You
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 05:49 PM
Sep 2021

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)
8. NMSU professor barred from classroom
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 05:59 PM
Sep 2021
https://www.abqjournal.com/2422549/nmsu-professor-barred-from-classroom-in-policy-row-ex-business-teacher-refused-to-wear-a-mask-or-to-be-vaccinated.html

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 NMSU’s College of Business, posted video of an introductory lecture in which he announced that he would not be enforcing or following the university’s 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 haven’t lost my mind, that’s 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)
9. How has he not been dragged before the senate?
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 06:06 PM
Sep 2021

Alex Jones too! I can't wait to see both of these traitorous scumbags locked up!

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