MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell pulled a Trump, taking his company’s official Twitter account with him in an attempt to escape his recent ban on the platform.
Lindell – a vocal advocate for the former president and his tiresome, destructive and groundless complaints of widespread electoral fraud – was permanently suspended from Twitter last week for violating the civic integrity policy.
After the ban, the verified corporate account for MyPillow posted several tweets in the first person, apparently from Lindell, attacking Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and accusing him of being somehow complicit in Trump’s electoral defeat.
“Jack Dorsey is trying to cancel me (Mike Lindell)! … Jack will be discovered and should be put in prison when everything is revealed!”
On Monday night, CNN journalist Donie O’Sullivan noticed that the @mypillowusa account has been suspended.
A Twitter spokesman confirmed to Mashable that the account “has been permanently suspended for violating our evasion ban policy. “
The move echoes Trump’s attempts to escape his own suspension for similar reasons last month.
When Trump was permanently banned from Twitter after the Capitol insurrection, several Trumpworld accounts were also permanently suspended after clear attempts to allow him to use them as proxies. Affected accounts include the official @TeamTrump account and that of its digital director Gary Coby.
It looks like MyPillow will have to promote its products and conspiracy theories unfounded in Parler from now on.