MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell – a fervent supporter of President Trump – says he would “welcome” a prosecution threat from voting machine maker Dominion. Lindell told CBS News that a lawsuit would allow him to show the world that the recent presidential election was rigged.
However, the Department of Justice found no evidence of widespread electoral fraud and national security from the Trump administration and election officials considered this the “safest election in American history”.
In a letter dated December 23, Dominion’s lawyers stated that Lindell “participated in the vast and coordinated disinformation campaign for Dominion slander. “They demanded that Lindell stop” making defamatory allegations against Dominion “and preserve all documents related to his” smear campaign “against the company.” Litigation related to these issues is imminent, “said the letter.
Lindell told CBS News’ Sara Cook on Monday, “I want them to sue me. Please. Because I have all the evidence, 100%. I want the entire American people and the world to see the horrible things that these (Dominion vote) machines are able to do what they did to our country and what else – they are allowing other countries to steal our election and just hijack our election.
“I don’t care if you are a Republican or a Democrat: all Americans need to know the truth that this happened. So I am welcoming Dominion because it will be discovered. They are doing it now to try and scare me.”
“We have 100% proof that China and these other countries have done this,” continued Lindell. “… So, I welcome Dominion to come after me because I think the word would come out much sooner than waiting for the Supreme Court to open this thing.”
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Lindell also spoke about his widely publicized visit to the White House on Friday. At one point, he was photographed waiting outside, holding documents that mentioned the possible imposition by a martial law president.
Lindell told CBS News that a lawyer he declined to name gave him the document to share with Trump, but that he “did not even read the sheet” before presenting it to the president. Lindell denied that he was pressing for Trump to enforce martial law and said he did not know what was in the document when he handed it to Trump.
He claimed that he also had a document proving that there was foreign election interference and electoral fraud in the presidential election. In a recent tweet, Lindell said the document showed that Biden actually lost the election by 11 million votes – a false claim on the election that Biden won with 81.2 million votes against Trump’s 74.2 million.
Lindell said Trump took a look at the documents, then returned them to Lindell and sent him to the White House Council office. Lindell ended up leaving the White House with the newspapers after discussing them with other government officials, who were indifferent. He said he only saw the president for five minutes.
Lindell said he did not speak to Trump or anyone else in the White House about pardons, but that he was approached by “probably five different people” asking for his help in obtaining pardons. Lindell did not say who approached him, but said he refused them and referred them to the “Office of Forgiveness”.
Separately, CBS Minnesota reports that Lindell said that Bed Bath & Beyond and Kohl’s are among the retailers that will stop selling their products due to their persistence in the election.
Lindell, whose company is based in Chaska, Minnesota, made the announcement by speaking on Saturday with conservative commentator Brian Glenn on the Right Side Broadcasting Network.
“I just hung up the phone with Bed Bath & Beyond. They’re leaving My Pillow. I just hung up the phone less than five minutes ago. Kohl’s, all these different places,” said Lindell. “These [companies], they are afraid, like a Bed Bath & Beyond, they are afraid. They were good partners. In fact, I said to them, ‘You guys come back whenever you want.’ “
– Kristin Brown contributed reporting.