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'I'm in ruins,' teary Mike Lindell tells judge in Smartmatic sanctions hearing
ABC News ^ | April 16. 2025 | Soo Rin Kim

Posted on 04/17/2025 12:04:39 PM PDT by Miami Rebel

Election denier and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell continues to refuse to pay more than $50,000 in sanctions he has been ordered to pay to voting software company Smartmatic over "frivolous" election claims. "I'm in ruins," a teary Lindell said through a Zoom screen in a motion hearing in the U.S. District Court in Washington on Wednesday, pleading to Judge Carl Nichols to allow him to wait until after the final judgement comes out to make any payment in the case, which he has already lost. Last month, Smartmatic filed a motion to hold Lindell in contempt, alleging the MyPillow CEO has been dodging his court-ordered payment of $56,369 to Smartmatic for months. Lindell, however, insisted that he does not have the means to pay the amount due to various financial difficulties he has suffered due to what he again claimed was "lawfare" waged against him for trying to "secure the election." "I borrowed everything I can. Nobody will lend me any money anymore," Lindell claimed. "I can't turn back time ... but I will tell you, I don't have any money." Lindell claimed he was recently forced to lay off hundreds of MyPillow employees, lost multiple MyPillow warehouse units over the past two years and even owes millions of dollars to the IRS for what he described as a COVID-era employee retention credit. He claimed he has "nothing" except for two houses, which he claimed are in the process of being liquidated, and a truck. He even claimed he can no longer adhere to a previously proposed plan of making monthly installments of $5,000. After listening through Lindell's plight, Nichols acknowledged that these claims are "non-verifiable representation" at the moment and gave Lindell until Friday to file under seal financial statements and other documents to prove his claims.

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To have conquered his addiction and built a huge business, only to come to this...

And not to have even $50,000 today! Very sad.

1 posted on 04/17/2025 12:04:39 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel

I bought some pillows and sheets from MyPillow last year. They are good stuff for the price. Is his business really going under?


2 posted on 04/17/2025 12:07:25 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Magnum44

And with attorney’s fees being what they are, you’d think he’d pay the 50k and be done with it.


3 posted on 04/17/2025 12:08:40 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Miami Rebel

The charges were NOT frivolous. They were spot on.


4 posted on 04/17/2025 12:10:00 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher )
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To: Miami Rebel

Did he lose to Smartmatic on the merits? That he stated slanderous things knowing they were false?


5 posted on 04/17/2025 12:10:46 PM PDT by JewishRighter ( )
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To: Miami Rebel

To Hell with ABC News. I quit reading at “election denier”. They are election fraud deniers, the Steal of 2020 was real.


6 posted on 04/17/2025 12:11:03 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Rurudyne

The charges were NOT frivolous. They were spot on.


Exactly!

He has lost everything because of these vicious hounds, all because he loves America and the sanctity of our most sacred right....honest elections.

God bless Mike Lindell.

I wish someone lilke Elon could prove him right and right this terrible wrong.


7 posted on 04/17/2025 12:12:47 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Rurudyne

That’s why they’re trying to destroy him.

/Satans playbook never changes


8 posted on 04/17/2025 12:12:49 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: Miami Rebel

Evil bastards. Lindel was correct in his assessment. It was done on behalf of Trump. I cannot understand why Trump doesn’t make him whole and take care of this for him. It would be pocket change


9 posted on 04/17/2025 12:12:53 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: Miami Rebel

If I had the wherewithal, I’d put together a Gofundme type of page. If people could raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for a guy who stabs a person to death, how is it not possible to help Lindell out.


10 posted on 04/17/2025 12:13:38 PM PDT by JewishRighter ( )
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To: Miami Rebel

I think there were insiders on Trump’s election teams that were deliberately misleading the principals. The Kracken? Haspel in Germany fighting a SWAT team? “Absolute Proof” of hacking? How did it get that bad?


11 posted on 04/17/2025 12:13:49 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: Miami Rebel

He behavior during that period screamed, “dry drunk.”

I am empathetic to his position and I hope the court s sympathetic. But as they say in the movies….”Don’t go full r-tard.”


12 posted on 04/17/2025 12:16:34 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Jane Long

They have proof. The courts have consistently NOT let the defense present them.


13 posted on 04/17/2025 12:18:11 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Right....I pray maybe DOGE can present all.


14 posted on 04/17/2025 12:19:04 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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>> Election denier

FU, Kim


15 posted on 04/17/2025 12:20:25 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: Jane Long

Its gotta be Elon because we all know dmaned well Bomdi would never do it...


16 posted on 04/17/2025 12:26:15 PM PDT by sit-rep
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To: Fido969

Or this from Ruby Giuliani, I think around the 20th of December: “It’s going to come out, all at once. Right after Christmas.” a whole lot of overpromising and in delivering took place


17 posted on 04/17/2025 12:26:34 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Magnum44

I love his sheet sets they are on every bed in my house. They make excellent housewarming gifts. Everyone loves fresh new sheets


18 posted on 04/17/2025 12:28:23 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Fido969

IMHO, Lindell’s only fault is focusing so much on the internet connectivity angle. He should have focused more on provable things like the weighted race feature built into Dominion’s software (which they advertise for things like if members of a condo vote and you want members who own more property to have more weight).


19 posted on 04/17/2025 12:41:27 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: cnsmom

Stocking up on sheets. His bed topper is on the mail already.

I hope Mike will overcome this injustice.


20 posted on 04/17/2025 12:42:26 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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