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Let's be blunt: Mike Lindell is a real jerk. He pulls shady tricks on his customers. He treats his employees badly. He tried to, you know, overthrow an election. He stiffs people to whom he owes money. And he does it all while wearing that very ostentatious cross that he almost always wears. In our view, that's an insult to tens of millions of decent Christians across the country.
As to the point about stiffing people to whom he owes money, Lindell still hasn't paid the $5 million he was supposed to pay to the mathematician who proved that Lindell's election numbers are nonsense. That despite the fact that Mr. MyPillow already lost a court judgment. And now, he's not only stiffing his opponents, he's stiffing his lawyers. Yesterday, the only Minnesota firm willing to defend Lindell in court, Parker Daniels Kibort, as well as their Washington partner, Lewin and Lewin, filed a notification that their client is millions of dollars in arrears, and that they will not represent him again until he pays up.
That means Lindell and Donald Trump now have something else in common. However, it also means that Lindell is in deep financial trouble. Which, now that we think about it, is yet another thing that he and Trump have in common. In Lindell's case, he can't pay his bills, his company's sales have fallen off, he's had to downsize his staff, and his lines of credit were slashed. Oh, and he still faces tens of millions (or hundreds of millions) of dollars in potential liability without any apparent ability to afford top-flight counsel. Or any counsel.
In short, it appears the economic death spiral has begun, and if you always wanted your very own MyPillow, you better buy now, before it's too late. Lindell, given his conspiratorial bent, says this is the outcome that "they" always wanted. If so, then "they" did an excellent job of causing Lindell to spend millions chasing fantasies and also compelling him to say countless stupid and actionable things on camera.
When this news broke yesterday, we both had the exact same response: Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. (Z)