Copy of the Mike Lindell subpoena, via Emerald Robinson on Substack.
Posted on 09/17/2022 8:48:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You may know him as the hyper, slightly-goofy pillow pitchman from TV who can regularly be found on Fox News hawking his MyPillow product along with Giza Dream sheets, slippers, and more. You might have even seen him on a poster in Bed Bath & Beyond or Walmart before they predictably—in the woke corporate age—dropped him from their lineups.
Full disclosure: I own a MyPillow; I bought one long before I had any inkling of Lindell’s political leanings. I was just looking for a better way to sleep, and guess what? It delivered: now I can’t sleep without it.
Things took a sinister turn Tuesday, as Nick Arama reported: Lindell was tracked down by FBI agents, corralled at a Hardee’s of all places, served a subpoena, and ordered to turn over his cell phone. What in the heck is going on here? Is Pillow Guy secretly a violent white nationalist, a Russian spy spewing disinformation, an international arms dealer, what?
Independent journalist Emerald Robinson obtained a copy of the subpoena:
Copy of the Mike Lindell subpoena, via Emerald Robinson on Substack.
Lindell’s crime sounds especially sinister, according to CNN:
The Justice Department is seeking information about at least seven people in connection with a breach of a Colorado county’s voting system as part of efforts to subvert the 2020 election results, according to subpoena documents obtained by CNN that reveal new details about the breadth of the investigation.
Well, this certainly sounds like a case worthy of the full weight of the FBI, and it seems entirely justified that armed agents were needed to ambush Lindell at a fast-food restaurant. Not.
Lindell says his employees and their families are stressed out about the company going under and losing their jobs because of his activities, which has cost his company millions. He blames the media. pic.twitter.com/wqkdjU58FP
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) September 16, 2022
It’s impossible to give Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice even the slightest benefit of the doubt in this day and age, as they have subpoenaed virtually half the free world and raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on a seemingly endless fishing expedition. Pillow Guy’s story is equally murky; there are a lot of suspicions and dark insinuations thrown about by the FBI, but little in the way of facts that make you go, “oh man! Lindell really crossed the line on that one!” Without boring the heck out of you, I’ll try to sum it up quickly:
Lindell has been an outspoken critic of the 2020 presidential election and has regularly said he believes the outcome was fraudulent. This would appear to be his worst crime. But did he breach voting data machines?
The subpoena issued to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell earlier this week lists the names of people considered “subjects” in the investigation – including people involved in efforts to seize voting machine data in several states as former President Donald Trump and his allies tried to overturn his electoral loss. Lindell has not been charged with any crimes or wrongdoing.
[Emphasis mine.]
Of course, this being today’s DOJ, the subpoena demands “all records and information” from his phone that might involve the seven other individuals named. The phrase “all records and information” seems to be turning up a lot lately, doesn’t it?
In a nutshell, the investigation is probing Lindell’s effort to analyze voting data from machines in several jurisdictions. Did he break the law to get some of this information? Time will tell, but it sure has the smell of FBI overkill once again. For instance, most of the rest of the CNN article goes on to describe Lindell’s efforts to promote his view that the election was stolen. Newsflash: that is not a crime.
Car loads of FBI agents swarmed My Pillow's Mike Lindell. But Hunter travels on Air Force One.
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) September 14, 2022
Take Friday’s nasty hit piece by Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. The author spends barely a sentence describing the alleged crime: “The feds seized the phone in a probe into Trump allies’ breach of voting machines in Colorado, which state authorities are also investigating.” The entire remainder of the article is a snarky, mean-spirited assault on the man’s character, with many a “humorous” pillow pun thrown in. Here’s a sentence of this bile:
There is something exquisite about a former professional gambler, recovering crack cocaine addict, showy evangelical (Lindell often wears a cross outside his collar, like an amulet) and pillow kingpin organizing the undoing of democracy.
Milbank doesn’t like his style, so Lindell should be thrown in jail?
Perhaps Lindell did breach voting systems in defiance of the law, and if so, he should pay the price. But the Department of Justice, by its own actions, has lost all credibility and it’s almost impossible at this point not to impute a more sinister motive behind every one of its ham-handed moves.
Will Lindell’s be another case where a Trump associate is never charged with anything, and the DOJ eventually slinks away after ruining someone else’s life?
I have NO validation, but IMO . . . Mike has serious shit on them . . . as does Trump, as does the GOP.
Because he has a public forum and he resists.
Like all the rest. Find a person who resists the left and who has the ability to influence others and you will find the deep state crosshairs on them.
Evil is as evil does. Let’s face it one is either of God or satan. There is NO in between. What part of that don’t people get!
It is a tactic designed to intimidate and cause fear among anyone who might oppose this administration. They are trying to set an “example” for everyone else.
“It is a tactic designed to intimidate and cause fear among anyone who might oppose this administration.”
That’s the thing.
Is Colorado the state where it was alleged that an election worker made a backup copy of some elections data (voting machines or tabulating system) before it was wiped out by an “upgrade”? Or was that Arizona?
Why? Because he made a string of podcast videos questioning the 2020 elections and was pushing the “Dominion machines changed votes” conspiracy.
That's the author's cutsie way of saying "Tina Peters the Mesa county, CO clerk." The person legally in charge of the voting machines in Mesa county.
Here she is on Bannon's War Room ...
Tina Peters: Colorado's Broken Election will Reveal to America How Rigged our Elections Are Rumble video 5:19 - September 9, 2022
Not an election worker the county clerk. See #9.
I would assume the voting machine is asked to load ballot data onto a USB drive.
The USB drive would probably then taken to a tabulating computer.
Those USB drives should have been kept and it would be easy for a supervisor of elections to make a copies for a freedom of information act request.
Even if a voting machine gets reset, its ballot data should still exist on a USB drive, and probably on a tabulating computer drive too.
Tina Peters is charged with the felony charges of three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, criminal impersonation, two counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation and one count of identity theft, as well as the misdemeanors of first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state, according to the Mesa County District Attorney’s Office.
Belinda Knisley is charged with three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state.
Allegedly the two allowed a person named Conan James Hayes to impersonate someone named Gerald Wood to be present at a County election software update where he allegedly obtained hard drives or copies of hard drives from election machines. These were given to Ryan Watkins (aka CodeMonkeyZ). Both Hayes and Watkins were hired onto Mike Lindell's "red team" for his Cyber Symposium.
USB drive contents are soooooooooo easy to change.
That pretty much describes most BLM members. Plus most BLM members are thieves and fraudsters. Let the super corrupt DOJ throw BLM members into jail than.
Oops Ron Watkins, not Ryan
And commies of a feather, flock together.
But hey, keep buying the rope they will use to hang you. It is WAY to much trouble to spend five minutes buying from some where else.
RE: Because he made a string of podcast videos questioning the 2020 elections and was pushing the “Dominion machines changed votes” conspiracy.
Is there a law against pushing this conspiracy? Or is it protected by our First Amendment?
I never said it was justified. I just gave the reason.
They are trying destroy him because he is outspoken about the stolen election.
They know they stole it and work hard to clamp down on any discussion of the fraud and the steal.
Biden is not a legitimate president of the United States of America.
Their actions prove they know this to be true.
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