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Election denier and 'MyPillow Guy' Mike Lindell confirms he's out of money, can't pay legal bills (news.yahoo.com)

submitted 11 months ago by FirstCircle@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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Attorneys who've been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit, saying he owes them unspecified millions of dollars and can't pay the millions more that he'll owe in legal expenses going forward.

It’s the latest in a string of legal and financial setbacks for Lindell, who propagates former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, in part by rigged voting machine systems. Several big-box retailers, including Walmart, have discontinued his products.

“MyPillow's been decimated. ... We've lost hundreds of millions of dollars,” Lindell said, adding that the other main assets he has left are his home and pickup truck. He blamed Dominion, Smartmatic and the news media, including the conservative outlets Fox News and Newsmax.

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[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.ml 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Blame yourself, pal. I'm shocked that garbage pillow netted him hundreds of millions.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 25 points 11 months ago

its a hundred bucks for a pillow full of memory foam bits. Its nuts!

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

No, it’s memory foam bits.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Remember the sobakawa pillow? The one with the buckwheat husks!

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

No but that sounds horrible.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What do you know anyway, Satan's Maggoty Cum Fart?

For your edification...

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

It's not even quality memory foam. There's a world in which shredded memory foam could be a good pillow, but the MyPillow isn't even that

[-] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

He advertised to people who will literally buy anything, i.e. Limbaugh and Jones fans.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 44 points 11 months ago

Good. /thread

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

[-] bfg9k@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 months ago

Someone needs to teach these people the difference between being an insufferable asshole and a victim.

They're not the same. FAFO.

[-] motorwerks@sopuli.xyz 20 points 11 months ago

1st it's Giuliani w/ money problems, now this guy. If 'actions had consequences' was this obvious, to everyone, all the time the world would be a much better place. Sadly, these are merely the exceptions.

[-] DreddNYC@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

And they all did this for Donald Trump, a man who couldn’t care less about either of them. May the ghost of Herman Cain haunt them for eternity.

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

The fact this fuckwad could just have shut the fuck up and lived in luxury for the rest of his life, but couldn’t resist running his mouth.

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago

If you can’t pay for a defense- you should get no defense. Welcome to the real world where the rest of us live, ASSHOLE.

[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

He's welcome to an overworked public defender

[-] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you get a public defender in a civil suit. From TFA it sounds like Pillow Crybaby isn't facing any criminal charges (yet).

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 12 points 11 months ago

Still has his home and a car. Can't complain with that

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

With no money how long before he loses both? Property taxes come due each year and the car needs plates and insurance.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago

He can always work the drive through somewhere

[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Or he could work at Walmart selling pillows

[-] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Home and a pickup and an Audi something-or-other apparently. Also from the photo he likes to wear Xian bling ... that gold ring ought to be worth a couple thou-, maybe more if it was melted down and the curse was off. He's probably got drawers full of gaudy crap like the ring and the lapel pin, maybe Smartmatic and Dominion will settle for the jewelry and a few pillows?

[-] ironhydroxide@partizle.com 5 points 11 months ago

If you give them the pillows you'll have to give them more jewelry than if you didn't.

Nobody wants lumpy ass pillows

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

[-] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

I bet he’s not out of money, and is just preparing for the loss by trying to see he broke.

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I really don't understand his endgame here.

[-] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Me either, unless he's just trying to get into the news so fellow MAGA morons will see how completely fucked he is and will financially support him.

Ever the pitchman, Lindell, known as the MyPillow Guy, asked viewers of his webcast who wanted to help to call in and buy his pillows, towels and other products.