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brooklynite

(96,882 posts)
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 12:30 AM Feb 2024

Mike Lindell Says He Has No Money After Being Ordered to Pay $5 Million

Source: Newsweek

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Donald Trump ally who, without evidence, has said widespread voter fraud put Joe Biden in the White House in 2020, said he plans to appeal a $5 million ruling against him.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim upheld an April 2023 ruling that requires Lindell to pay computer forensics expert Robert Ziedman $5 million, who debunked his 2020 election data. Lindell maintains the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump and has spent $40 million in his efforts to prove it.

After the ruling, Lindell told War Room podcast host Steve Bannon that he will appeal the decision and that Zeidman won't "see a dime."

"I don't have any money," Lindell told NBC News after the ruling. "I have a pickup truck and a house that I live in. That's it."


Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-reveals-he-has-only-10000-his-name-1872611



Maybe he could start a business?
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Mike Lindell Says He Has No Money After Being Ordered to Pay $5 Million (Original Post) brooklynite Feb 2024 OP
Cry me a river. Doesn't he still have the Dominion lawsuit ? Deuxcents Feb 2024 #1
Making crappy pillows stuffed with scrap foam rubber? marble falls Feb 2024 #2
To a guy like Lindell, Rudy G, or trump, financial ruin is devastating. I enjoy watching. Silent Type Feb 2024 #3
Me, too PJMcK Feb 2024 #17
Michael will share with you ArkansasDemocrat1 Feb 2024 #42
Where's my teeny tiny violin 🎻? live love laugh Feb 2024 #4
At Mitt Romney's Republican Convention speech he said that the American Dream was having your own.... EarnestPutz Feb 2024 #5
Maybe he needs new products, new partners keithbvadu2 Feb 2024 #6
I wonder what a pillow factory is worth jmowreader Feb 2024 #7
Guess he still has a pillow to cry himself to sleep with each night . . . Journeyman Feb 2024 #8
"Ziedman won't see a dime" ArizonaLib Feb 2024 #9
What kind of financial values NJCher Feb 2024 #10
Their delusions baffle me PJMcK Feb 2024 #18
I think Lindell is a true believer. mike_c Feb 2024 #37
Hashtag ETTD ArkansasDemocrat1 Feb 2024 #43
I guess there are lots of things... dchill Feb 2024 #27
If he has no money Old Crank Feb 2024 #11
stupid asshole had the perfect con going Skittles Feb 2024 #12
"Thanks for the pickup truck, the house, and the garnished wages, crack head." AnrothElf Feb 2024 #13
Everything Pendejo45 touches dies, you'd think Lindell would have known that ... aggiesal Feb 2024 #14
Get a job loser and stop eating avacado toast. twodogsbarking Feb 2024 #15
Yeah, well. Boo-fucking-hoo. Paladin Feb 2024 #16
That find out phase isn't working out so well, huh? SKKY Feb 2024 #19
I have heard foam rubber pillows can mop up a lot of tears. appleannie1 Feb 2024 #20
Well ain't that a hoot. He still has the money to advertise his crap on television. Firestorm49 Feb 2024 #21
Yeah, he's completely full of it. ificandream Feb 2024 #22
Exactly Rebl2 Feb 2024 #25
I haven't seen his ads locally in a few months ArkansasDemocrat1 Feb 2024 #44
Play stupid games --- 3Hotdogs Feb 2024 #23
Maybe he can start a new business selling bootstraps. Demnation Feb 2024 #24
Spent 40 million trying to prove a negative. dchill Feb 2024 #26
The house should kick him out. LiberalFighter Feb 2024 #28
Correction, Mike. The guy you owe the $5 million to now has a pickup truck and a house. Vinca Feb 2024 #29
They can't take a homestead or... CCExile Feb 2024 #33
Musical responses to the loser; Chainfire Feb 2024 #30
Isn't he covered under Presidential immunity protection? Chainfire Feb 2024 #31
He is such a liar! TexasBushwhacker Feb 2024 #32
This judgement will be final soon and will be enforced against this idiot LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2024 #34
Play stupid games Mz Pip Feb 2024 #35
Imagine being Lindell... EarthFirst Feb 2024 #36
He said he has a truck and a house so start by taking those.... ZonkerHarris Feb 2024 #38
As Gilbert and Sullivan (and I) put it: DFW Feb 2024 #39
liquidate /lĭk′wĭ-dāt″/ jvill Feb 2024 #40
Time for a new product line, Mike. LudwigPastorius Feb 2024 #41
 

EarnestPutz

(2,843 posts)
5. At Mitt Romney's Republican Convention speech he said that the American Dream was having your own....
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 12:50 AM
Feb 2024

…..business. He said it twice, actually. Poor Mike had the gold ring, albeit by selling schlock to the rubes, but now it’s gone. Cheer up Mikey. There’s a sucker born every minute.

jmowreader

(52,996 posts)
7. I wonder what a pillow factory is worth
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 01:19 AM
Feb 2024

Probably not $5MM but if I was Ziedman I’d be like “give me your business and we’ll call it good.” I wonder how much it would cost to install a pillow form molding line in that place so the pillows it makes aren’t so bad.

ArizonaLib

(1,303 posts)
9. "Ziedman won't see a dime"
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 01:55 AM
Feb 2024

I am sure when Ziedman's attorney repeats this "promise" the judge will ensure Lindell won't see his truck or his house anymore.

NJCher

(42,756 posts)
10. What kind of financial values
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 02:13 AM
Feb 2024

Does he have for spending $40 million on “election fraud.” What a sucker.

The whole r-w thing is a scam. They scam each other, they scam the media, it’s all just this make believe play world they live in. Who could stand to live like this?

PJMcK

(24,899 posts)
18. Their delusions baffle me
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 08:53 AM
Feb 2024

We all live in the real world where facts exist. How do these people twist their brains into believing such obvious garbage?

Did Giuliani, Lindell, Powell or any of the rest really believe the stupid lies they were spouting? If they did, they are seriously in need of mental healthcare. If they were just lying, they need to be prosecuted and sued which seems to be their futures.

I’m also amazed and dismayed at how many of Trump’s enablers were lawyers! Their crimes were blatant and their hubris and self-righteousness was stunning. Trump’s manipulations of our legal systems has been violently malicious and it’s gratifying to see him keep losing every court case.

All of these criminal insurrectionists need to be held to account. I feel those results are coming.

mike_c

(36,943 posts)
37. I think Lindell is a true believer.
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 01:26 PM
Feb 2024

I don't think he's very smart. I mean, he impoverished himself with great gusto, tagging along with tfg's campaign entourage and serving as a faithfully useful moron with deep, but ultimately finite pockets. TFG hollowed him out and sucked him dry, just like he did to Rudy G. Destroying lives is TFG's super power.

Old Crank

(6,767 posts)
11. If he has no money
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 03:27 AM
Feb 2024

How will he get a lawyer?
He can act as his own lawyer.......

The liar now gets to pay for his mistskes. He should have stuck to hawking over priced pillows.

Skittles

(170,198 posts)
12. stupid asshole had the perfect con going
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 03:28 AM
Feb 2024

convincing people that his pillows - something EVERYONE USES - were special.......but then he hitched his wagon to Donald Fucking Trump ---- IDIOT!!!

Rebl2

(17,527 posts)
25. Exactly
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 11:16 AM
Feb 2024

If he can advertise his pillows, he’s got money stuffed away somewhere. Maybe a pillow or pillow case?

CCExile

(524 posts)
33. They can't take a homestead or...
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 12:53 PM
Feb 2024

a sole means of transport, but a mortgage and finance company can. Are those two thing paid off?

 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
30. Musical responses to the loser;
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 12:28 PM
Feb 2024
If you want it here it is, come and get it.... A fool and his money...

He made enough money to buy Miami and pissed it away so fast...


Well, I went to my brother to ask for a loan 'cause I was busted...

In language from my military service days, "Old Mike shit in his mess kit."

I really feel sorry for the man; bless his heart.
 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
31. Isn't he covered under Presidential immunity protection?
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 12:35 PM
Feb 2024

Someone needs to tell the judge.

Poor Mike, his defense that everyone should have know he was a liar and a blow-hard didn't work out for him.

EarthFirst

(4,013 posts)
36. Imagine being Lindell...
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 01:06 PM
Feb 2024

…spending tens of millions on ‘the steal’ on behalf of TFG; believing that you’d even had a shot at that coveted inner circle.

You spent 40 million that Trump gladly allowed you to spend that he otherwise wouldn’t have had access to…

You sir; are effectively known as a useful idiot.

You were going to end up broke and destitute regardless…

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