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Nevilledog

(51,170 posts)
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 02:33 PM Sep 2022

My Pillow Guy is the heart of the 'Big Lie' conspiracy





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Federal agents boxed him in as he waited in at Hardee’s drive-thru last week. They handed Mike Lindell a subpoena and confiscated his phone. What does the FBI want with the My Pillow Guy’s mobile?

Lindell is the sugar daddy of the Big Lie. The eccentric pillow peddler claims that the nation’s voting machines hold proof of a stolen 2020 election. Since Trump’s defeat, he’s spent tens of millions of dollars bankrolling grassroots activists who pressure local Republican election officials to leak highly sensitive data from voting machines.

This data, our data, finds its way to Lindell’s “cybersecurity experts” who write bogus reports crying fraud. These false claims are amplified by Trumpworld celebrities like Steve Bannon. Lindell is also spending millions to build his own right-wing media platform so that his credulous acolytes can absorb his lies without contradiction and nobody can deplatform him for spreading misinformation.

Lindell’s phone was seized because of his links to Tina Peters, the clerk and recorder of Mesa County, Colorado. Last year, members of a Lindell-backed Big Lie group approached Peters with bogus allegations of voter fraud. An itinerant “cybersecurity” analyst with ties to Lindell further stoked her paranoia that an upcoming software update for Colorado’s voting machines would destroy evidence from 2020.

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My Pillow Guy is the heart of the 'Big Lie' conspiracy (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2022 OP
Charge him w/ election fraud. Period. SWBTATTReg Sep 2022 #1
Major Omission ProfessorGAC Sep 2022 #2
This is why Mike lyndale made that announcement about his phone being confiscated Heather MC Sep 2022 #3
Lindell is a total whack job. He needs to be locked up now. Initech Sep 2022 #4
He can't be the only fall guy. Marcuse Sep 2022 #5

ProfessorGAC

(65,136 posts)
2. Major Omission
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 02:39 PM
Sep 2022

Lindell may have spent millions, but whose money is he spending?
He was never that rich. The $300 million net worth in his Wiki page was made up, with reasonable suspicion that he did the edit.
The age of his company, the average revenue, the debt load (debt:equity >5) and the fixed burden of a bloated (But underpaid) workforce makes the $300 million inflated by at least one digit. Could easily be 15 fold.
And, now revenues are off 35%.
Who is really paying for this? He simply never had this kind of money.

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
3. This is why Mike lyndale made that announcement about his phone being confiscated
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 02:39 PM
Sep 2022

He needed to let everybody know that he was compromised, and that everything was on his phone this phone. Meaning everybody associated with him in the scheme is about to go down.

That's why Mike told everyone his phone got taken even though the FBI apparently told him not to say anything.

And the best way to spread a secret, is the tell it out loud in that way the only ones that care to hear it will listen

Initech

(100,097 posts)
4. Lindell is a total whack job. He needs to be locked up now.
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 03:13 PM
Sep 2022

Before he becomes a danger to himself or others. He and Alex Jones can share a cell.

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