WASHINGTON – MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell said Tuesday that federal agents seized his cellphone and questioned him about a Colorado clerk who has been charged in what prosecutors say was a “deceptive scheme” to breach voting system technology used across the country. Lindell was approached in the drive-thru of a Hardee’s fast-food restaurant in Mankato, Minnesota, by several FBI…
ST. PAUL (KVRR/KFGO) — Doug Wardlow says he’ll run in the August primary for attorney general after losing the Republican endorsement to Jim Schultz at the convention last weekend. Wardlow, who was the party’s nominee in 2018, is general counsel at MyPillow and an ally of its founder, Mike Lindell. Lindell is a leading proponent of false accusations that the…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Prominent defense attorney Alan Dershowitz has joined the legal team representing MyPillow founder and Minnesota resident Mike Lindell in a civil rights lawsuit against the congressional committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The Jan. 6 Committee wants Verizon to turn over Lindell’s cell phone records between Nov. 1, 2020 and Jan. 31, 2021. Dershowitz…
MINNEAPOLIS – Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against the founder of Minnesota-based MyPillow. The lawsuit alleges Mike Lindell falsely accused Dominion of rigging the presidential election. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in the District of Columbia Monday. It alleges Lindell ignored repeated warnings from Dominion. The voting technology company has filed similar lawsuits…
MINNEAPOLIS – Twitter has permanently banned MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s account after he continually perpetuated the claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 U.S. presidential election. A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement that it decided to ban Lindell, who founded MyPillow, due to “repeated violations” of its civic integrity policy. The policy was implemented last September and is targeted at…
MINNEAPOLIS: — The MyPillow guy is weighing a run for governor of Minnesota. If Mike Lindell follows through with a campaign, it could be an early test of where the Republican Party is headed in the post-Donald Trump era. Lindell would bring a high profile to a race thanks to name recognition built on his ever-present TV ads. But he…
JORDAN, Minn. – Police officers in Jordan, Minnesota are called to check on the welfare of a man standing motionless outside in the cold not wearing a coat and hugging a pillow. Officers found out it wasn’t a man at all. It was a cardboard cutout of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. The police department says “the caller was not wanting to…
