Jan. 6 organizer expects Mike Lindell to end 'mistake' campaign for RNC chair

David Edwards
January 02, 2023



Mike Lindell speaking with attendees at the 2020 Student Action Summit. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)


Caroline Wren, an organizer for Jan. 6 protests and a senior adviser for Kari Lake, said that she opposes MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for Republican National Committee chair because it would hurt former President Donald Trump's chances at re-election in 2024.

Wren told conservative podcaster Steve Bannon on Monday that she expected Lindell to drop out of the race.

"I expect it will only be [Ronna McDaniel] and [Harmeet Dhillon] on the ballot now," she explained. "Mike Lindell is a good friend. I love him so much. But we have to look at people and where they're best served. And I don't know about you, but I want President Trump back in office. Mike Lindell is the greatest asset to President Trump. He's the best surrogate. I've been to over 100 Trump rallies. He's been at every single one."

"The RNC chair has to remain neutral," Wren continued. "And so taking Mike Lindell off the field for helping Donald Trump in 2024 to me is a mistake. He is too strong of an asset to do it."

Watch the video below from Real America's Voice.

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Mike Lindell’s new conspiracy theory: DeSantis’ Miami-Dade win can prove Trump was cheated

Al Diaz/adiaz@miamiherald.com
Douglas Hanks
Fri, January 6, 2023 at 5:53 PM MST


Mike Lindell wants to dive into how easily Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis won the Democratic stronghold of Miami-Dade County in November, and he claims the data could help prove a grand election conspiracy favoring former President Donald Trump.

Lindell, best known as the “My Pillow Guy” for the online bedding company he runs, is attacking the county agency in interviews. He claims Elections is withholding ballot-machine records tied to the DeSantis 11-point win in Miami-Dade, a county Trump lost by seven points two years earlier.

“Now all of a sudden, Miami-Dade County says ‘We can’t give them to you,’” Lindell said on a recent segment on his online channel, Lindell TV. “Hand them over. Give them over. Or, you know what, we’re going to come down there.”


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Mike Lindell says Miami-Dade is obstructing his effort to investigate “anomalies” in Ron Desantis’s election win by refusing to turn over public records: “Give them over or we are going to come down there! I don’t care if it’s a lawsuit or what I’ve got to do.”














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Douglas Hanks
Fri, January 6, 2023 at 5:53 PM MST


Mike Lindell wants to dive into how easily Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis won the Democratic stronghold of Miami-Dade County in November, and he claims the data could help prove a grand election conspiracy favoring former President Donald Trump.

Lindell, best known as the “My Pillow Guy” for the online bedding company he runs, is attacking the county agency in interviews. He claims Elections is withholding ballot-machine records tied to the DeSantis 11-point win in Miami-Dade, a county Trump lost by seven points two years earlier.

“Now all of a sudden, Miami-Dade County says ‘We can’t give them to you,’” Lindell said on a recent segment on his online channel, Lindell TV. “Hand them over. Give them over. Or, you know what, we’re going to come down there.”


Lindell is a top Trump supporter, and a leading voice backing up Trump’s false allegations that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him.

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While calling the DeSantis win an “anomaly,” Lindell also said he believes the Republican governor won the county fairly. He claims the 2022 cast vote records — which show how machines recorded ballots — could reveal Trump was cheated out of his own Miami-Dade win in 2020 by “machine manipulation.”

READ MORE: DeSantis win in Miami-Dade comes just in time to give Republicans hope for sheriff in ’24

DeSantis was the first Republican gubernatorial or presidential candidate to win Miami-Dade in 20 years, and polls show he’s the top challenger to Trump’s 2024 campaign for the GOP nomination.

“I don’t think they did any cheating like they did in 2020,” Lindell told the Miami Herald on Friday evening, referring to Miami-Dade election results. He said the 2022 results could prove rigged tallies from 2020. “Here’s Miami-Dade County in 2020 when they cheated, and here’s Miami-Dade County in 2022 when they didn’t. We could finally have an A/B example.”

The interview did not last long, with Lindell reacting angrily when pressed to explain how “machine manipulation” occurred in Miami-Dade in 2020.

“You’re a full of crap journalist,” Lindell told a Herald reporter who called. “Have a nice day.”

Courts repeatedly rejected lawsuits claiming fraud as the Trump campaign tried to overturn the 2020 election results, and Lindell is facing a $1.3 billion defamation suit by voting-machine maker Dominion Voting Systems for allegations of machine manipulation.

On Friday, Lindell claimed Miami-Dade’s Elections Department was stonewalling his efforts to obtain 2022 data.

“They’re holding it back and giving us excuses,” he said. “It’s disgusting.”

Suzy Trutie, deputy supervisor of Miami-Dade’s Elections Department, said she wasn’t aware of a records fight involving Lindell or anyone else over the 2022 results.

She said the agency is processing multiple requests for cast vote records.

“It’s still being worked on,” she said.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-lindell-conspiracy-theory-desantis-005339590.html

 

Why oh why didn't they use all MyPillowGuy's evidence of massive voter fraud by Dominion, China, Hugo Chavez? According to him the justices would have ruled 9-0 to reinstate Trump as president.

Supreme Court denies case seeking to remove Biden and reinstate Trump

David Edwards
January 09, 2023



Fomer US President Donald Trump attends a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. Former US president Donald Trump described Germany as a "hostage of Russia" in comments to "Fox Business" on Tuesday. Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa


The Supreme Court has denied a longshot lawsuit from three brothers who sought to remove President Joe Biden from office and reinstate Donald Trump.

Brother Raland Brunson was listed as the plaintiff on the Supreme Court petition. The brothers said that members of Congress violated their oaths of office by failing to investigate fraud in the 2020 election.

"The complaint asks that the 387 members of Congress who voted to certify Biden’s election be immediately thrown out of office and barred from ever running again. Biden and Harris would also be removed from the White House and banned from running, as would former Vice President Mike Pence," the Salt Lake Tribune reported recently.

In an order issued Monday, the high court said that the case was "denied" but gave no explanation.


https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-trump-2020/

 

Mike Lindell says he's got enough votes to derail RNC chair Ronna McDaniel's leadership bid

Cheryl Teh
Mon, January 9, 2023 at 10:47 PM MST



MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

• Mike Lindell says he's got the support to derail RNC chair Ronna McDaniel's re-election.
  
  
• Lindell is running a dark horse campaign in a three-way race with McDaniel and lawyer Harmeet Dhillon.
  
  
• Lindell told Insider he's secured the votes to make sure McDaniel won't have an outright win.
  

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says he's secured enough support to derail longtime foe Ronna McDaniel's re-election bid to lead the Republican National Committee.

Speaking to Insider on Monday night, Lindell said he's "locked in" the commitments he needs to make sure McDaniel will not have an outright win. The leadership of the RNC will be decided in a ballot during the committee's winter meeting this month.


"It'll be like, what you've just seen happening in our Congress here, you know. There's gonna be multiple votes, and there's a three-way race, and we all stay in until somebody gets to 85," Lindell told Insider, referencing the majority votes needed from 168 voting members of the RNC.

"I have plenty of states now. I believe she's well under 85 — with my math, I'd say somewhere around 70 to 75," Lindell said of McDaniel.

Lindell acknowledged that the remaining votes might be divided between him and attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who is also challenging McDaniel for the top job at the RNC.

As for Lindell's chances of actually clinching the position, it is unclear how much support he has. He told Insider that he has called "a third" of the 168 RNC members since he announced his candidacy in November.

"And when you talk to some — sometimes I talk for three to four hours to one person," Lindell told Insider on Monday. "They bring up problems and I say, here's how I'm going to solve them: whether it's a new communications structure within the RNC, and whether it's restructuring the fundraisers."

"There's still a lot of calls I have to make," Lindell added.

Alabama and Texas GOPs turn against McDaniel
Lindell might be right about the tide turning against McDaniel. On Monday, NBC reported that the Alabama GOP has declared its position against McDaniel.

"We believe that RNC leadership needs a new vision for future elections," the committee's statement read.

The committee added that it cannot "support or endorse" McDaniel, and declared its "vote of no-confidence in her leadership."

"We encourage all RNC members across the country to support new leadership at the RNC Winter Meeting," the committee wrote in its statement.

The Texas GOP also unanimously voted in December for a new RNC leader.

The strongest challenger to McDaniel, however, appears to be Dhillon, rather than Lindell. CNN reported in December that Dhillon is putting up a tough fight. The media outlet spoke to an unnamed RNC member, who described the race as being "a bare-knuckle fight" between Dhillon and McDaniel.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-lindell-says-hes-got-054742585.html

It is worth noting that McDaniel was in November endorsed by a majority of the RNC's voting members — 101 in total — who signed on to a letter endorsing her re-election, The Hill reported.

Dhillon and a representative for McDaniel did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

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'Shove it': Mike Lindell snaps at reporters who ask him about smear campaign against RNC rival

Brad Reed
January 11, 2023



Mike Lindell speaking with attendees at the 2020 Student Action Summit. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell this week snapped at reporters when they asked him about a smear campaign being launched against a rival candidate to become chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Politico reports that an RNC member this week received an email from a purported Lindell supporter encouraging them not to back RNC chair candidate Harmeet Dhillon due to her Sikh faith.

“She is an Indian Sikh by birth and heritage, Not of Judeo-Christian worldview,” the emailer wrote. “None of these core character positions aligns with the Republican Party Platform, planks, or conservatism in general.”

The emailer then encouraged them to support Lindell instead, whom they described as an "ardent Christian conservative."

IN OTHER NEWS: Trump campaign officials hit with 'wide-ranging subpoena' with fresh questions about January 6th

Politico reached out to the Trump-loving pillow monger for his reaction, and he merely replied, "Shove it."

However, current RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, who is being challenged by both Lindell and Dhillon, condemned the attack and said the GOP should be open to people of all faiths.

"As a member of a minority faith myself, I would never condone such attacks," said McDaniel, who is a Mormon. "I have vowed to run a positive campaign and will continue to do so.”



https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-rnc-2659180498/

 

I don't think he's lost anything yet. Just wait until Dominion gets through with him.

And I also got news for MyPillowGuy treason against the United States of America is actually very wrong.


"I have done nothing wrong": Mike Lindell says MyPillow lost $100 million after election fraud claims

David Zalubowski / AP
Esme Murphy
Wed, January 18, 2023 at 5:05 PM MST


MINNEAPOLIS -- MyPillow founder Mike Lindell is one of three candidates running for the most powerful position in the Republican party -- the Chair of the Republican National Committee. The election is next week.

This comes as Lindell is facing a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit over his promotion of the Big Lie -- as well as the FBI's seizure of his cell phone.

Lindell says the reason he can win is because Republicans are so divided -- and, as he points out, he has a lot of supporters.

MORE: 'I Want Them To Sue Me': MyPillow's Mike Lindell Says Lawsuit From Dominion Would Show Election Was Rigged


Dominion Voting Systems is suing him for defamation over his claims about their voting machines and the Big Lie.

Dominion's lawsuit claims it's all been good for his business and that "Lindell has increased MyPillow sales by 30-40% and continues duping people into redirecting their election-lie outrage into pillow purchases." Lindell says that is not true.

"Now let me tell you the facts about MyPillow. When I tried to get this out to the people, MyPillow lost $100 million in retailers. We are not up 30-40% -- we are down. We are down. I had to borrow money," Lindell told WCCO.

In September, the FBI seized his phone. The search warrant affidavit says they were looking for evidence on the phone of manipulation of voting machines. Lindell says they won't find it.

"Are you kidding me," Lindell said. "I have done nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing wrong."

Dominion Voting Systems said in a statement that "Mike Lindell's lies have been repeatedly debunked, including by bipartisan government officials and the courts. Dominion is moving forward with the process to hold Lindell accountable for defamation."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/done-nothing-wrong-mike-lindell-000500501.html

 

Mike Lindell's 'frankly embarrassing' bid for RNC chair angers members: 'Making pillows and winning election — no correlation'

Travis Gettys
January 25, 2023



Mike Lindell speaking with attendees at the 2020 Student Action Summit. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


Mike Lindell is running for Republican National Committee chair, but no one seems sure whether he's serious.

The MyPillow CEO and Donald Trump ally is running against current chair Ronna Romney McDaniel, who's heavily favored to keep her job, and former California RNC member Harmeet Dhillon, but some committee members says Lindell is mounting a "pseudo-campaign" that didn't inspire confidence in his ability to lead the national party, reported Vice News.

“His candidacy for the RNC shows he doesn’t know how to campaign for an office," said Iowa GOP chair Jeff Kaufmann. "Do you see the irony here? He’s campaigning to be the RNC chair for more campaigns, and his campaign for RNC chair is a bunch of boilerplate emails that have come very, very late. Making pillows and winning elections — I don’t think there’s a correlation there.”

McDaniel has the backing of two-thirds of the RNC members who will vote Friday at their annual conference, and Dhillon -- a Trump campaign lawyer -- has endorsements from dozens of members, while Lindell has, at the very least, the signatures of at least two members who signed paperwork required to qualify him for the ballot, but he won't say who they are.

IN OTHER NEWS: The disturbing truth about the new House GOP agenda

“I wouldn’t tell you that in a million years," Lindell told Vice News. "What, so you could go attack them? I’m not stupid. You guys must really think I’m dumb. I’m going to win.”

Only one RNC member has publicly endorsed Lindell, and that's fellow election denier Lenar Whitney of Louisiana, but other members cast doubt on the pillow monger's claims to have contacted each of them personally to make his case.

“I don’t know a single member who’s heard from the guy,” said one RNC member who privately said he planned to vote for McDaniel. “I frankly think it’s embarrassing that he’s even officially nominated. He’s done nothing but run his mouth about something he doesn’t understand, and now he wants to run the party? I’m not going to run his business just because I sleep on a MyPillow."



https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-rnc-2659308585/

 

'There were no machines': Mike Lindell concedes he lost a 'fair election'

Brad Reed
January 27, 2023



MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell speaking with attendees at the 2020 Student Action Summit. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who gained notoriety for spouting false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being stolen from former President Donald Trump, accepted his defeat on Friday in the race to be the next chairperson of the Republican National Committee.

Shortly after Lindell suffered a blowout defeat in which he only received four votes, he was approached by Semafor reporter Dave Weigel, and Lindell offered up his opinion on whether he lost a "fair election."

"Yes," Lindell replied. "There were no machines."

For the past two-plus years, Lindell has obsessively posited that voting machines in key swing states switched votes from Trump to President Joe Biden, even though he has so far produced absolutely no evidence to back up this assertion.

READ MORE: ‘Rot in hell!’ Trump rages about 'deranged' investigations in Truth Social video binge

Lindell's falsehoods about voting machines have even made him the subject of a $1 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, the company whom Lindell is alleged to have slandered with his false claims about the 2020 election.

Despite all this, Lindell still pitched Weigel and other reporters on Friday about the need to get rid of all voting machines.

"I pray for you guys every day, that you’ll say we need to get rid of these voting machines," he said.



https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-rnc-2659321469/

 

I bet this was quite the reality check for MyPillowBuy. He is actually as delusional as Trump and probably did believe he had a chance to win.


Mike Lindell Swore He’d Win the RNC Chair Race. He Got Smothered.

Jake Lahut, Zachary Petrizzo
Fri, January 27, 2023 at 1:21 PM MST



Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty
It was a miracle he was even there at all.

Mike Lindell never really had more than an elementary understanding of how the Republican National Committee operated. Nevertheless, he insisted it was only a matter of time before he’d be in the GOP’s corner office.

Except, there was one major problem with his plan: It was all a dream. He never had the support of the actual members.

The pillow magnate’s fledgling bid to take over the RNC ended Friday when he lost in overwhelming fashion on the first ballot, with just four votes out of 167 cast. (Ronna McDaniel won the election with 111 votes.)

Lindell was serious about his bid to lead the RNC. The problem was, no one else ever saw him that way.

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“The pillow guy? That’s kind of a joke,” one RNC member told The Daily Beast ahead of the party’s winter meeting in Dana Point, California, where Lindell made the final push.

An ally of challenger Harmeet Dhillon called the Lindell bid “a complete sideshow” and said members would desperately try to avoid his calls.

On Friday afternoon, the MyPillow CEO’s campaign ended, after he was trounced by fellow RNC candidates Ronna McDaniel and Harmeet Dhillon.

Despite his countless appearances on Steve Bannon’s “WarRoom” podcast, the 168 members wanted little to do with the boastful businessman, as he earned himself a measly four votes.

In an interview with The Daily Beast on Wednesday morning, Lindell’s makeshift RNC campaign manager Sherronna Bishop, who in recent months got her home raided by the FBI, said the pillow maven was not backing down.

On Tuesday night, Lindell held a reception for RNC members, which Bishop said was “great” and “very well attended.” In reality, one RNC member who spoke to The Daily Beast said it was scheduled at the same time as other meetings and had sparse attendance. Still, despite the questionable attendance, Bishop said Lindell fielded a “lot of questions” stemming from “lots of concern” over how the RNC is currently being run.

But another RNC member at Lindell’s meet-and-greet said “he accepted” that it would be “a tough road” to secure a victory. Unlike other candidates who had a handful of public supporters along the way, Lindell only had one: Louisiana national committeewoman Lenar Whitney, according to four members supporting a mix of Dhillon and McDaniel, told The Daily Beast.

“She is a longtime friend of Mike Lindell’s,” one of the members said of Whitney, who added that the Louisiana national committeewoman would be tasked with rattling off the pillow magnate’s nomination speech.

“He’s great, super optimistic,” Bishop added, going into the Friday voting, while insisting he was destined to pull off the upset.


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Before the voting began, Mike Lindell stopped by to speak with reports. He told us "the people want me" and if the RNC members vote for anyone except him to be chair “they are not listening to the people." Citing this @Rasmussen_Poll https://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/most_gop_voters_want_new_rnc_chair














11:21 AM · Jan 27, 2023 from Dana Point, CA


Jake Lahut, Zachary Petrizzo
Fri, January 27, 2023 at 1:21 PM MST



Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty
It was a miracle he was even there at all.

Mike Lindell never really had more than an elementary understanding of how the Republican National Committee operated. Nevertheless, he insisted it was only a matter of time before he’d be in the GOP’s corner office.

Except, there was one major problem with his plan: It was all a dream. He never had the support of the actual members.

The pillow magnate’s fledgling bid to take over the RNC ended Friday when he lost in overwhelming fashion on the first ballot, with just four votes out of 167 cast. (Ronna McDaniel won the election with 111 votes.)

Lindell was serious about his bid to lead the RNC. The problem was, no one else ever saw him that way.



“The pillow guy? That’s kind of a joke,” one RNC member told The Daily Beast ahead of the party’s winter meeting in Dana Point, California, where Lindell made the final push.

An ally of challenger Harmeet Dhillon called the Lindell bid “a complete sideshow” and said members would desperately try to avoid his calls.

On Friday afternoon, the MyPillow CEO’s campaign ended, after he was trounced by fellow RNC candidates Ronna McDaniel and Harmeet Dhillon.

Despite his countless appearances on Steve Bannon’s “WarRoom” podcast, the 168 members wanted little to do with the boastful businessman, as he earned himself a measly four votes.

In an interview with The Daily Beast on Wednesday morning, Lindell’s makeshift RNC campaign manager Sherronna Bishop, who in recent months got her home raided by the FBI, said the pillow maven was not backing down.

On Tuesday night, Lindell held a reception for RNC members, which Bishop said was “great” and “very well attended.” In reality, one RNC member who spoke to The Daily Beast said it was scheduled at the same time as other meetings and had sparse attendance. Still, despite the questionable attendance, Bishop said Lindell fielded a “lot of questions” stemming from “lots of concern” over how the RNC is currently being run.

But another RNC member at Lindell’s meet-and-greet said “he accepted” that it would be “a tough road” to secure a victory. Unlike other candidates who had a handful of public supporters along the way, Lindell only had one: Louisiana national committeewoman Lenar Whitney, according to four members supporting a mix of Dhillon and McDaniel, told The Daily Beast.

“She is a longtime friend of Mike Lindell’s,” one of the members said of Whitney, who added that the Louisiana national committeewoman would be tasked with rattling off the pillow magnate’s nomination speech.

“He’s great, super optimistic,” Bishop added, going into the Friday voting, while insisting he was destined to pull off the upset.


That upset never materialized.

In a series of three interviews ahead of the RNC race with The Daily Beast, Lindell was persistent in his belief that he would—with MyPillow magic—seemingly overnight turn the RNC (what he refers to as a “corporation”) into a powerhouse marketing machine, something the world has never seen before.

“This is a secret ballot, no machines, isn’t that something,” he said in one of the interviews, where he boastfully declared that members would flip to support his campaign in private.

“This isn’t for the public to vote,” he continued, “why don’t you wait till this thing is over next week, and then I will give you the story when I win.”

Pressed on possibly declaring victory pre-emptively, the pillow CEO insisted on taking the RNC crown in a few days.

“Well, why wouldn’t I win? I am more qualified,” he declared. “I [have] done my due diligence for over two months now.”

While he characteristically had all the confidence in the world, the pillow CEO always lacked a basic understanding of how the RNC operates.

Perhaps even more importantly, heading into another election cycle, he failed to understand the concept of independence when it came to the 2024 presidential nomination process. Unlike McDaniel and Dhillon—who both pledged to be neutral in the 2024 Republican GOP presidential primary—Lindell was all-in for Trump.

Likewise, Lindell never fully understood the politics behind the 168 members and who wields power. For example, he didn’t know who D.C. conservative grassroots leader Morton Blackwell was. (Throughout the race, Blackwell was a very public Dhillon supporter.)

Asked by The Daily Beast if he could share names of his alleged mysterious RNC supporters, Lindell said, “They don’t need to be attacked by The Daily Beast.”

Lindell burst into laughter when presented with the idea that he had, at most, a handful of RNC members supporting his candidacy, which both of his competitor’s camps agreed upon.

“Do you even know how this works?” he responded to the criticism that he’d whipped very few votes. “Wake up!”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-lindell-swore-d-win-202102447.html

 

Who cares about him. His products suck.

 

Treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans care about MyPillowGuy a lot. He is one of their leaders since Trump made insanity a major plank in the Republican platform,



RNC Brings Pillow Guy And His Outrageous Election Conspiracy Theories Into The Fold

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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell talks to reporters Friday at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Dana Point, California.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell talks to reporters Friday at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Dana Point, California.

WASHINGTON ― The Republican National Committee is welcoming ubiquitous pillow monger Mike Lindell into the fold after his failed run for the chairmanship, despite his continuing baseless claims that foreign powers stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump by hacking into voting machines and his post-coup-attempt visit to the White House with papers advocating “martial law.”

Lindell won votes from only four of the RNC’s 168 members in Friday’s election at its winter meeting, but he was nevertheless praised by Ronna McDaniel, who won her fourth two-year term, and her allies.



“Where’s Mike?” McDaniel said, after winning 111 votes, more than twice the total of California RNC member Harmeet Dhillon and Lindell combined, as she brought both onstage and thanked them equally. “Thank you for the race you ran, for the leaders you are in our party. We are so grateful for you.”

That embrace of an election liar worse than Trump himself brought bewilderment from former major Republican players.

“I sometimes refer to the obviously unhinged as being crazier than a sprayed roach. Mike Lindell is such a lunatic that he makes sprayed roaches look like Zen masters,” said Mac Stipanovich, a longtime GOP consultant in Florida who left the party after its takeover by Trump. “Any embrace of Lindell by anyone is a sure sign of advanced, irremediable moral decay.”

Jennifer Horn, a former RNC member when she ran New Hampshire’s state party, said cozying up to the likes of Lindell is not helpful. “Further proof that the GOP is consciously choosing to build their future on dangerous, extreme, anti-democracy election deniers.”

Lindell did not respond to HuffPost queries for this article.

In his sales pitch to committee members as well as in media interviews, Lindell has frequently claimed that he had been a major donor to the RNC but stopped after learning of the party’s wasteful spending, which he described as a “money-laundering operation.”

“With the RNC, the money, I used to be a big donor, and you donate money, and when I find out that almost half of it was going to fundraising .… That’s just too much overhead, that’s crazy,” Lindell said last week at a “debate” sponsored by pro-Trump radio host John Fredericks, whose program Lindell sponsors.

In fact, Lindell has never donated directly to the RNC, and he never donated to a federal candidate or committee at all prior to Trump’s nomination in the 2016 presidential election, according to a HuffPost review of Federal Election Commission records.

Lindell did contribute $195,000 to Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee, that distributed a total of $110,700 to the RNC between August 2016 and January 2018.

And though that is a significant sum, it pales in contrast to the party’s truly large donors. According to HuffPost’s analysis, Lindell’s total to the RNC makes him its 865th biggest donor from August 2016 through November 2022, with 19 donors contributing $1 million or more.

Even among donors to Trump Victory, Lindell’s total places him in just 475th place, with nine donors giving more than $1 million.

In all, Lindell over the past six years has donated a total of $529,782 to federal candidates and committees ― including $100,000 to a pro-Trump super PAC ― a number dwarfed by the $40 million he claims to have spent on proving his election conspiracy theories.

“I assumed he was a donor to some degree,” said one RNC member who spoke on condition of anonymity and who defended McDaniel’s praise for Lindell. “She would like to get him in the tent in a way that he would actually be helpful.”

The praise for Lindell by McDaniel and others is based on his endless promotion of his MyPillow sleep products on right-wing media. Lindell once earned his living counting cards at casinos and then overcame a crack cocaine addiction before starting his pillow business, he told HuffPost in a previous interview.

Today he meticulously tracks the effectiveness of his various advertising by using unique “promo codes” for each piece of programming, be it a cable show or a podcast.

His prominence in Republican politics began when he enthusiastically endorsed Trump in 2016 and started donating to Trump Victory. By the 2018 midterm elections, he was appearing onstage with Trump. When the COVID-19 pandemic came, Lindell appeared at the White House with vaccine and testing executives to announce that his factory would turn out face masks.

Later that year, after Trump lost the presidency to Democrat Joe Biden, Lindell became among the most influential spreaders of ever-more-preposterous conspiracy theories. He was eventually sued for defamation by voting machine maker Dominion, which is seeking $1.3 billion in damages. And even after Trump’s attempt to coerce his own vice president into falsely and illegally giving him a second term failed on Jan. 6, 2021, Lindell was photographed at the White House bearing papers with the words “martial law if necessary” visible on them.

Lindell claims not to know anything about the document he was carrying, but he has not stopped his lies about a “stolen” election. At Fredericks’ debate ― at which he was the only candidate in attendance; neither Dhillon nor McDaniel showed up ― he claimed that almost 2 million votes had been stolen from Trump in 2020 in California alone.

“He’s a nut job,” said Oscar Brock, an RNC member from Tennessee and one of the committee’s few outspoken critics of Trump. “He spent $40 million trying to convince people that Italians affected the outcome of the election…. There are no Italian space lasers affecting vote totals on the machines.”

Even the RNC member who defends McDaniel’s attempt to co-opt Lindell concedes that doing so risks hurting the party with mainstream voters.

“It gives credibility to some of the crazy things he says,” the member said. “Anybody who thinks that the 2020 election wasn’t won by Biden just isn’t dealing with facts…. He needs to get some people around him who would actually educate him. And then the question is: Would he listen to them? I don’t know.”



https://www.yahoo.com/news/rnc-brings-pillow-guy-outrageous-003057848.html

 

Ok now they are going to have to kick Ron DeSantis out of the Republican party.


Mike Lindell melts down as Ron DeSantis hosts Dominion lawyer: 'He is showing his true colors!'

David Edwards
February 07, 2023



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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) faced backlash on Tuesday after he held a media "defamation" panel that included an attorney representing Dominion Voting Systems in its case against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, Rudy Giuliani, and multiple conservative news outlets.

Lindell lashed out on Twitter after he learned that attorney Libby Locke was a panelist DeSantis described as an "extraordinaire at first amendment, defamation law."


"He is showing his true colors!" Lindell exclaimed on Twitter.

For her part, Locke railed against media outlets and suggested it needed to be easier to win defamation lawsuits.

"It's virtually impossible to bring and win one of these cases," Locke said. "And the media gets away, and they have complete immunity from liability. And that is what I think is going to change in the press. They think with dollar signs. And when there are economic consequences to lying about targets for reporting and to get ratings and to sell ads, that is — when there is real consequences through private action, that's when they're going to be accountable to their insurers and when they're going to be accountable to their shareholders."

DeSantis responded by declaring himself more trustworthy than the news outlets.

"People trust me a hell of a lot more than they trust the media," he said.

https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-defamation/

 

Mike Lindell says he will sue Kevin McCarthy for sharing J6 footage with Fox News

Brandon Gage, Alternet
February 23, 2023



Mike Lindell speaking with attendees at a "Save America" rally at Country Thunder Arizona. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) sharing forty-four-thousand hours of footage from the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at the United States Capitol exclusively with Fox News host Tucker Carlson has ignited fierce backlash from Democrats and sparked intense national security concerns among experts. But a new conservative detractor has emerged – MyPillow Chief Executive Officer Mike Lindell – who is deeply mired in litigation stemming from his debunked conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump.

On Thursday's edition of ex-Trump White House chief strategist and twice-convicted felon Steve Bannon's show War Room on the right-wing network Real America's Voice, Lindell revealed that he intends to sue McCarthy to gain access to what he believes is evidence that will vindicate him.

"I got breaking news with *the* Mike Lindell. Mike, what's the breaking news? You've got something you're about to file, I know you're sending a letter, I think preserve your documents or you're talking about a suit that you got incoming. Can you get us up to speed on it?" Bannon asked.

"Yeah it's as everybody knows, Kevin McCarthy and the gang released forty-four-thousand hours from January 6th to exclusively Fox News. Well, we're not going to sit back and let that happen. This is our First Amendment provision..." Lindell began before Bannon cut him off.

"But but but Mike, but Mike, but Mike Mike Mike Mike, but hang on. But Mike Mike, hang on, hang on, hang on. Of all the fights we got in the world, of all the terrible things going on, we're fighting on every different front, they're giving forty-four-thousand hours to Tucker because he's got the staff to do it. Of all the stuff that you're fighting everywhere, you're trying to get the machines out, you're running a company, you know, they're trying to destroy Mike Lindell. Why of all the fights that we got, why would you pick on the going up to – telling McCarthy he can't partner with Tucker?" Bannon wondered.

"Well because Fox, number one, Fox is going to sift through it and only put out what they want and I'm tired of them breaking our constitutional rights. We have to stand up with everything. Just because they're doing it everywhere, everything has to be addressed. I don't know why the media's not going after them. We are, at Lindell TV, we're going after him for the First Amendment provision freedom of the press. We're injured by not having access and then the other thing is the Equal Protection clause, discrimination by the speaker. You don't just give it – it's like a cover-up," Lindell responded.

"Why does just Fox get this? So they can cover it up even more? It's disgusting," he continued. "All of us, including War Room, we all need to see what's on those tapes and we need to see all of them. And we need to go through them. We're the press too. We're – why would you – it doesn't even make sense and this also goes back to my lawsuits with Dominion and others."

Dominion Voting Systems is seeking billions of dollars in compensatory damages from Lindell, Fox News and its employees, as well as Trump allies for falsely alleging that their machines rigged the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden.

"There's a lot of cover-up going on where the two even kind of tie together out there but the lawyers say we were going to go after Fox to get it. And the lawyers – yesterday we had a big meeting – and they said no we're going to go right after the speaker, right after Congress, and I'll take it all the way up," Lindell said. "I don't care if I don't get it there. We're going to run this all the way to the Supreme Court. I'm tired of our violations of our constitutional rights, Steve. It's just not right. It's disgusting."

Bannon sought additional clarification.

"So you're saying that you want with Lindell TV, you'll put a team on it, but you want to see the tapes and videos the same time Fox sees it? You've got tons of respect for Tucker but just given everything that's going on in this situation, you want to lay your – you only trust your own lying eyes, right? You would want to see, you're from Missouri, you want to see all forty-four-thousand hours. I don't want to see some sort of curated version of that. Is that what you're telling us? And you're prepared to go to court for that?" Bannon queried.

"Yeah, that's right, and I consider this even like a block," Lindell replied. "Once again it's another block."

Media Matters for America noted that it "has documented how Mike Lindell's MyPillow is one of the biggest advertisers on Fox News, especially Tucker Carlson Tonight."



https://www.rawstory.com/mike-linde...ccarthy-for-sharing-j6-footage-with-fox-news/

 

Blockbuster news alert!!
THIS JUST IN!!!!!!!!!!!!
CARLSON RELEASES NEVER BEFORE SEEN VIDEO OF A REVOLUTIONARY INSIDE THE CAPITAL!!!!!!!!!!



Morons.
We're surrounded by morons.

 

Ok you just wait until MyPillowGuy hears about this. I bet he sues the living dog shit out of those Supreme Court Justices and kicks their asses right off the bench.

Supreme Court Rejects Case To Reinstate Trump Over 'Rigged' Election
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This story has been updated since it was originally published to reflect the information that the Supreme Court declined to consider the appeal to the Brunson v. Adams case on Tuesday, February 21st

Raland, Deron, and Loy Brunson, the three brothers hoping to reinstate former President Donald Trump in the White House, have suffered yet another setback as their case has been rejected for the second time by the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Denies Rehearing Of Brunson v. Adams
Justices turned down the request for the rehearing of Brunson v. Adams on Tuesday, February 21st, making it even less likely for the Utah brothers to succeed in removing President Joe Biden from office. They are not giving up, however, and Raland Brunson took to Facebook the same day, saying: “[Second] Petition denied. Moving on to plan C. I will say more about that within the next few days. We have been working long and hard on these strategies and there are more to come.”

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“We understand this to be a possible long but worthy goal,” he continued. “The result is that everyone in this nation will have the peace of mind that comes from knowing that the candidate of their choice will be bound by their oath to protect the rights and freedom of the people they represent.”

The U.S. Supreme Court previously dismissed the case for the first time on Monday, January 9th, declining without comment to hear Raland Brunson’s October 2022 petition. Brunson posted an update on Facebook following the court’s January 9th decision, writing: “The petition was denied. We will now make our next move. A petition for reconsideration. Hang in [there] everyone.”

READ MORE: Grand Jury Member Leaks News About Charges To Be Filed Against In Donald Trump Case: ‘It’s Not A Short List!


What Is The Brunson v. Adams Case?
The Brunson v. Adams lawsuit seeks to remove President Joe Biden, 80, from the White House and reinstate former President Donald Trump, 76, as President of the United States, as it claims that lawmakers violated their oaths of office by refusing to investigate the allegedly fraudulent 2020 general election which it claims was rigged in Biden's favor.

Plaintiff Raland Brunson claims that the defendants – which include almost 400 members of Congress, as well as Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and former Vice President Mike Pence – voted to certify the 2020 presidential election despite receiving a valid request from 154 members of Congress to investigate the unfounded claims of electoral fraud in six states.


The lawsuit claims that Brunson's vote for Trump, which he cast in Utah back in 2020, was made invalid due to election fraud. The suit called for all 387 members of Congress who voted to certify Biden's electoral votes to be removed from their role, along with Biden and Harris, and be prohibited from running for office again. Brunson is also reportedly seeking $2B tax-free in damages.


Brunson Filed Appeal Following SCOTUS' Initial Decision
Brunson filed an appeal on January 23rd, and according to an update on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) website, at the time, the lawsuit was "distributed for conference" on Friday, February 17th. However, as we previously mentioned, the request for the rehearing was turned down on Tuesday, February 21st.

In the January 23rd appeal, Brunson said the court should grant a rehearing because the case "represents a very powerful domestic covert operation that is so benign that it cannot been seen on how it has breached our national security, and how it is affecting the national security of both Canada and Mexico, and how it has circulated fears that we might soon see the destruction of property along with a large volume of bloodshed in our own streets."


Trump's Former Legal Advisor Supports Supreme Court's Initial Decision
Interestingly, Jenna Ellis, a former senior legal adviser to former President Donald Trump actually supported the Supreme Court's decision to reject hearing the case, writing on Twitter: "This is the right call and predicted. The Supreme Court is not the arbiter of how a member does his or her job. This is a nonjusticiable issue. Imagine if a future Dem sought removal of members for 'failing to investigate' Trump. This would open the door to further weaponizing.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/supreme-court-rejects-case-reinstate-143017550.html

 

We can expect the ranting from treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans to begin any minute now how states have no rights to do this. Without their lies and election denying they got nothing. So states must be compelled to allow them. And if they don't they are just trying to censor and silence the voices of conservatives. It all just one big conspiracy don't ya know.

When the reality is this needs to be a federal law punishable with years in prison. It is treason against the United States of America and our Constitution for people to try and undermine our democracy by spreading election lies and refusing to accept the results of free and fair elections.


Mike Lindell's home state looks to ban election lies aimed at suppressing voters

Travis Gettys
March 07, 2023



MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell speaking with attendees at the 2020 Student Action Summit. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


Minnesota could prohibit the intentional spread of false claims about elections with the intent to stop voters from casting ballots.

The Democracy for the People Act currently under discussion in the statehouse includes a provision outlining gross misdemeanor charges for knowingly spreading false information with the intent to impede or prevent others from voting starting up to 60 days before Election Day, reported the Minnesota Reformer.

The crime would be punishable by up to a year in jail and a $3,000 fine.

The bill is aimed at dirty tactics often used to suppress voting, usually in Black neighborhoods, by circulating false information about “time, place or manner of holding an election,” as well as phony claims about voter eligibility and threats to physical safety associated with voting, and proponents believe the threshold for proving the crime is high enough to survive a First Amendment challenge.

READ MORE: Trump faces being 'found liable of rape' while 'in the midst' of multiple investigations: reporter

“In America, everyone has a right to be wrong,” said secretary of state Steve Simon, who supports the bill.

Simon said prosecutors would have to prove a person had an intent to stop someone else from voting, which is why he doesn't believe Donald Trump or MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell could be held criminally liable for their claims about election machines being untrustworthy.

“I think that would be a very hard sell,” Simon said. “I think it’d be very, very difficult.”

The bill's author, state Rep. Emma Greenman, said the measure was primarily intended to protect voters from intimidation and harassment and not aimed at criminalizing the "broader swirl of disinformation" around U.S. elections.

“We are very clear that the First Amendment allows people to say all sorts of stuff that is not true," said Greenman, who is a national voting rights attorney.





https://www.rawstory.com/minnesota-election-lies/

 

No you're kidding me. Who would have ever thought?

Mike Lindell’s Plan to Sue Kevin McCarthy Just Fell Apart

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Asawin Suebsaeng
Tue, March 7, 2023 at 10:36 AM MST



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Late last month, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was busy working with staunchly pro-Trump lawyers on a plan to sue House speaker Kevin McCarthy. On Monday afternoon, the plan collapsed entirely, a “very disappointed” Lindell tells Rolling Stone.

“The lawyers came back this afternoon and said after working on this and researching, I cannot sue [McCarthy] now,” he says. “They found too much [precedents] against doing it…I had five different law firms looking into this, from every which way and direction and I was pushing to have the lawsuit filed as soon as possible. But [on Monday], I got word from my lawyers that we can’t do it—because it would just be inviting sanctions and have no chance in court.”

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Lindell has been arguing that the Republican House speaker’s decision to grant Fox News and Tucker Carlson Tonight exclusive access to unreleased video of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — and to refuse to do the same for Mike’s “Lindell TV” streaming program, for instance — was “disgusting[ly]” unconstitutional. McCarthy’s move didn’t only perturb Lindell; It quickly garnered criticism from other MAGAworld luminaries, as well, including longtime Trump associates Rudy Giuliani and Eric Bolling.

But in a written message from the attorneys that Lindell shared with Rolling Stone, the lawyers break the news to him: “After researching the two issues that would be the basis for the challenge to the Speaker’s decision to give Tucker Carlson exclusive access to the Jan. 6 videotapes of the Capitol, we discovered an April 2021 decision denying reporters access to press briefings held by Wisconsin Governor Evers … To prevail on a discrimination claim, we would be confronted with a rational basis test that would allow the Speaker to point to any plausible justification for treating Carlson differently than the rest of the media and the public … [Furthermore], The Supreme Court has held that the press and the public have no absolute right to access government documents.”

The note concludes saying Lindell’s counsel “wish the research had given us a path to bring the action against the Speaker, but the precedents are lined up against us.”

Lindell, a close ally of former President Donald Trump’s and a top bankroller of the MAGA election-denialism movement, isn’t typically shy about filing lawsuit after lawsuit, at a variety of targets, even if success is a steep uphill battle. But it appears that this one would simply be too far for even his incredibly MAGA-fied legal team.

The Trumpist pillow mogul had previously said that he and his lawyers were hard at work on a draft of the lawsuit, with an aim to file early this week. Lindell has repeatedly said he does not trust Fox, and has routinely trashed the network for not being sufficiently extreme.

But on Monday, his plan of legal action against the Republican Speaker of the House came to a screeching halt.

This week, Carlson’s primetime Fox show, which is a leading source of conspiracy theory-fueled Jan. 6 revisionism, began rolling out its segments on the footage; Democratic lawmakers slammed McCarthy and Carlson for obvious efforts to absolve Trump and rewrite the history of the Trump-instigated, deadly Capitol assault.

“I am very disappointed in our legal system, and that there are precedents such that we can’t do this this week. I’m still upset with McCarthy for only releasing it to Fox. More than one news outlet, not just Fox, deserves to see it all! … It’s just wrong,” Lindell adds. “I have Jan. 6 prisoners reaching out to me. Maybe they and their lawyers could use what’s in there. They should have access, too.”


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mike-lindell-plan-sue-kevin-173620792.html

 

Mike Lindell Gave MyPillow Promotional Deal to QAnon Shows: Report

Podcasts and web shows about the QAnon conspiracy theory are selling MyPillow products under a sweetheart deal with the company's election-denying founder, Media Matters reports. MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is a vocal election fraud conspiracy theorist, hosting a 2021 “symposium” dedicated to the debunked claim that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election. Media Matters, a left-leaning watchdog group, found that Lindell's company had given out special promotional codes to at least 17 “QAnon-supporting shows and figures,” including one that describes itself as reporting on “Qanon Posts, Qanon News, Qanon Related Prophesies.” The promotional codes represent a significant profit-sharing deal. The shows receive at least 25 percent of all sales linked to a promotional code, Media Matters noted.

Read it at Media Matters


https://www.thedailybeast.com/turns...cartel-bomb-story-isnt-true?ref=home?ref=home

 

Mike Lindell says he's being audited by the IRS '100%' because of voting machines

David Edwards
March 15, 2023



Mike Lindell speaking with attendees at the 2020 Student Action Summit. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)


MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said this week he is being audited by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, and he attributed the action to his crusade against voting machines.

Lindell broke the news of his audit during a Wednesday appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast.

"They attacked MyPillow, which is an employee-owned company. And it's amazing, Steve, how all these [voting] machine companies get protected," Lindell told Bannon. "But it's disgusting. Now we're getting an audit. We have an audit coming against MyPillow. All this stuff they're just attacking."

"The IRS is auditing you guys?" Bannon asked.

"Yeah, absolutely," Lindell confirmed. "It's, you know, where did that come from?"

"Are you implying that you think that this came as a political payback for your efforts to make sure the 2020 election is sorted out?" Bannon wondered.

"100%," Lindell replied. "You know, we got to get rid of these machines. And all I do is get attacked every day for it. And it's the pushback that comes from every barrel, from my phone being taken by the FBI, now the IRS audit, and my company being attacked every single day."

"And, Steve, it's an all-out assault because what?" he added. "Because I'm on same-day voting, paper ballot, hand-counted. And it's our own party that pushes back a lot in these states too, and it's disgusting."

Watch the video below.

https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-irs-audit/

 

True to the treasonous conservative/America Hasting/Republican form. Always the poor poor pitiful me eternally wounded little snowflake victim not responsible for anything.

MyPillow CEO Says Company Is Going Broke Defending Election Fraud Claims



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MyPillow Founder and CEO Mike Lindell claims the company has had to borrow almost $10 million to keep the lights on. The MyPillow guy has been embroiled in a series of lawsuits brought by voting machine manufacturers who allege Lindell defamed them by spreading conspiracies regarding their role in the 2020 election.

“The machine companies continue to sue us for billions of dollars, and we had to borrow almost $10 million at MyPillow,” Lindell told far-right radio host and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon on Wednesday.

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In January, Lindell claimed that the sleep sundry company had lost more than $100 million in retail in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The claim has been contradicted by Dominion Voting Systems, one of the companies suing Lindell, who alleges the CEO has used his claims of electoral fraud to boost sales.


But while Lindell claims to be hemorrhaging cash, the company continues to liberally distribute discount codes for its sponsorship program. An investigation by the progressive watchdog Media Matters found that MyPillow was helping fund at least 17 QAnon-affiliated shows and personalities by offering them a cut of sales made through their sales code.

These personalities include Sidney Powell, an attorney who, alongside Lindell, spread conspiracy theories regarding Dominion and Smartmatic voting systems, and has also been named as a defendant in the defamation suits brought by the company.

While it’s well known that MyPillow serves as a vehicle to fund Lindell’s legal endeavors, the financial consequences may be creeping up on the company and its owner. Lindell lamented to Newsweek on Wednesday that he is facing what he calls a “suspicious” audit by the Internal Revenue Service. “Where does the attack end?” Lindell told the publication. “It kind of seems suspicious: ‘well, let’s audit him, see how much money he has left and we’ll take that too.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mypillow-ceo-says-company-going-024330318.html