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?
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.
He also is a big supporter of Trump and the big steal!!!
Probably several reasons, one of which is in first sentence: “pitchman from TV who can regularly be found on Fox News hawking his MyPillow.” Notice that Fox News does not get major advertisers that it’s viewing numbers suggest it should, because of leftist coercion against major corporations.
I do not know about anyone else but every time I see Mike Lindell in a commercial on TV the only thing which comes to mind is an ol’ West snake-oil salesman barking his product out of the back of a wagon. He almost gives me the creeps and the hair on the back of my neck stand up, like hackles on a dog.
He is white, male, Christian and a hetrosexual.
Dana Milbank is one of the slimiest journalists ever. He’s the Washington Poet’s lead smear artists/hitmen, followed by E.J. Dionne and a crowd of other slime creatures.
Never trust this red bastard even if he swears on a stack of bibles. They would probably be stolen in the first place.
I am sure that Lindell doing a couple hour+ long shows on how the 2020 election was stolen has absolutely nothing to do why Lindell is being targeted. Nope. Nada.
If anyone has "serious shit" on the left then they come up dead somehow. Just ask Seth Rich or Jefferey Epstein.
Lindell has not been charged with any crimes or wrongdoing.
Odd way to try to destroy someone.
The 2020 election fraud is a possibility:
Whether they achieve any convictions, or not, the purpose is harassment before the election to disrupt Republicans. Facing criminal grand juries and potential indictments has a way of focusing your thoughts on things other than re-election. It is clear what is being done, and frankly, it is a criminal conspiracy, which can be cured by a team of good attorneys who pursue civil RICO lawsuits.
It will mire the FBI in massive discovery requests which they will handle in bad faith. The trick is to find the right judge who won’t put up with the government’s games, and to hold the government attorneys accountable for the government’s long known bad faith actions.
I think Mike falls under the ‘lets get ‘em while their down’ general persecution of all vocal Republicans...
...after all that is the commie way.
I wonder how much communist China has paid for our media and DOJ.
Filipkowski is a COMPLETE douche!
Pure psyops from the FBI to instill intimidation for anyone maga who questions the rigged 2020 election, nothing more, nothing less.
“It is a tactic designed to intimidate and cause fear among anyone who might oppose this administration.”
It’s a bit more nuanced than that; in Colorado, election official Tina Peters refused to delete her election systems tabulator and systems data as ordered by the CO Secretary of State, (Dem). The SOS then accused her of election tampering, instead of what she was actually doing, preserving election records.
The DOJ and FBI agreed with the SOS and raided Peter’s home, (a Gold Star mother).
Lindell stepped in and not only paid for her legal counsel, but for high quality legal counsel.
So at this point the DOJ and FBI are trying to gather all of the election fraud information people have, so they can either destroy it, or discredit it.
The only way for them to gather it all, and quickly, is to find hack judges that will continue to issue general warrants for them to seize everything.
The DOJ can’t have ordinary Citizens standing up to them.
“Because he made a string of podcast videos questioning the 2020 elections and was pushing the “Dominion machines changed votes” conspiracy.”
Conspiracy you say? 5 minutes of research would show you that Dominion’s systems can be easily programmed to produce fractional voting, hackers can do this in a manner that is impossible to see by the election officials managing the tabulation process.
In addition, if the ballots themselves are off, (Think not aligned, or purposely designed for the scanner to not read them), and are being rejected by the scanners, the ‘adjudication’ process facilitates mass voter fraud by allowing election officials to enter the election result for the voter.
What voters would see:
You go into your precinct, you complete the ballot, you scan it into the tabulator, put your “I voted” sticker proudly on your chest, and you walk away, feeling great that you’ve taken part in your democratic process.
What may actually occur:
You go into your precinct, you complete the ballot, you scan it into the tabulator, put your “I voted” sticker proudly on your chest, and you walk away, feeling great that you’ve taken part in your democratic process.
HOWEVER!
What you wouldn’t see:
After you leave and the polls close, the election officials run their procedures, close the poll books, take the tabulator memory sticks and take them to election processing HQ. when the results are reviewed, there is an adjudication log for ballots that the scanner couldn’t read, for whatever reason, legitimate and fraudulent.
An election official reviews a digital image of the ballot scanned, but not read, and enters the voter’s intent — for them. Someone actually enters into the system how you intended to vote. Get it? Conspiracy? Are you comfortable with that?
I’m a 20+ year auditor and a Precinct Election Official; I encourage you to go to your county election office and pick the first 5 people you see that you would trust to review your ballot and enter what YOU intended.
Count me out of that brother!
Oh, and if you think adjudication is some rare event, I encourage you to watch this Fulton County, GA official on election night 2020 discussing just how many ballots they ‘adjudicated’ now that you know what it actually means:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?477819-1/fulton-county-georgia-election-update
The machines have got to go.
Thousands of reasons.
I bought both his pillows and mattress topper. Both good products. So not a “snake oil salesmen”
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