MyPillow chief spends tens of millions in fresh crusade to push Trump's big lie

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell, a fervent Donald Trump ally, says he has poured $35-40m into a wide crusade – a wave of lawsuits to get rid of voting machines that he faults for Trump’s defeat, a new movie about voting fraud, and a hefty legal stable – to promote charges that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud, despite a flood of contrary evidence.

In his frenetic quest to dispense with electronic voting equipment that he has often charged are defective, Lindell is hosting a two-day “Moment of Truth” summit on 20 and 21 August in Missouri, that he expects will draw 200 federal and state officials and staff, as well as hundreds of representatives from groups nationwide who have investigated election fraud this year and in 2020.

On a related front to boost his cause, a small segment of the summit will feature 10 conservative sheriffs who have become increasingly active in fighting purported election fraud, who Lindell told the Guardian he invited so they would have “a platform to get their voices heard”.

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However, the burgeoning “big lie” ecosystem seems to have other priorities: it includes nonprofits such as the Texas-based True the Vote, which co-sponsored the CSPOA Las Vegas summit in July, and has teamed up with another sheriffs’ group, Protect America Now, run by Arizona sheriff Mark Lamb, to form an alliance to police this year’s voting for fraud.

Another influential activist with strong fundraising ties on the right is Cleta Mitchell, a former Trump campaign lawyer who has spearheaded numerous “election integrity” summits in key swing states and is a leading figure at the Conservative Partnership Institute, to which Trump’s leadership Pac last year gave $1m. ............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/04/mypillow-mike-lindell-trump-big-lie-election-fraud

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Can't fix stupid

[zuul]

2. Alt headline: "Idiot Determined to Waste Every Dollar He Has Left"

[Turbineguy]

3. That's what you work hard for.

To waste it on that POS.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Pillow Guy's 'proof' always turns into discount codes for his crappy products.

Pillow Guy's 'proof' always turns into discount codes for his crappy products.

[gratuitous]

5. I hope he spends himself into penury

How's that 9-0 Supreme Court vote you promised your faithful suckers coming, Mike?

[Justice matters.]

6. The high costs of never-ending attention-seeking addictions.

I bet his parents didn't give him enough of that when he was a toddler.

[skypilot]

7. What does he pay his employees...

...while he spends millions on this bullshit?

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. The danger to Democracy from these Shitstains can't be overlooked.

They continue to attract rabid followers and the Big Lie continues to live on.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. Yep. Democracy is an obstacle to the radicalized Republican party.

If enough people believe the Big Lie, then they don't have to actually win the votes.

[Blue Owl]

9. Throwing money in a gold toilet -- it still ends up in the same place...