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Federal agents boxed him in as he waited in at Hardees drive-thru last week. They handed Mike Lindell a subpoena and confiscated his phone. What does the FBI want with the My Pillow Guys mobile?
Lindell is the sugar daddy of the Big Lie. The eccentric pillow peddler claims that the nations voting machines hold proof of a stolen 2020 election. Since Trumps defeat, hes 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 Lindells 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.
Lindells 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 Colorados voting machines would destroy evidence from 2020.
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SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,136 posts)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)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)Before he becomes a danger to himself or others. He and Alex Jones can share a cell.