MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell broke down in court this week, telling a judge he has no money left to pay the sanctions imposed against him in a defamation case brought by voting technology company Smartmatic.
“I’m in ruins,” Lindell said tearfully during a virtual hearing before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols on Wednesday, according to a report from ABC News. “I borrowed everything I can. Nobody will lend me any money anymore.”
Lindell was ordered to pay $56,369 in sanctions to Smartmatic, which sued him for defamation in 2022 over his baseless claims that the company helped rig the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump.
Let me know when he’s seen living in a cardboard box. Until then, it’s probably bullshit.
56k is worth tears to this rich nazi* pillow fluffer?
With the company that had 1,500 employees and bought “an average of $1 million in ads per week on Fox”?
*the nazi thing:
On September 20, 2024, MyPillow posted an advertisement on X (formerly Twitter) for a sale on their classic pillow. The sale price was $14.88, which critics have noted is a common Nazi dog whistle known as the Fourteen Words. Numerous white supremacist accounts praised MyPillow and Mike Lindell in response. Lindell has denied that there was any hidden meaning behind the price, calling it a media hit job.
Thoughts and prayers fuccko
What a fantastic article to read with my morning coffee! I realize he’s one in a long list of shitbags who need their comeuppance, but little bits of happiness are still worth it
Small victories. 🤗
Still way too big. But I like it.
[Judge] Nichols asked Lindell on Wednesday for proof that he was in financial ruin. He described Lindell’s claims as “non-verifiable” and gave him until Friday to submit proof he was bankrupt.
Good. I bet the fucker has plenty of money stashed away.
Lindell told Nichols his only possessions were two homes and a truck he was trying to sell for cash.
Two homes, mother fucker, two. That’s two more than a lot of people. Judge needs to make him sell both homes and the truck and assign a forensic accountant to make sure he doesn’t have anything hidden anywhere. Leave him just enough to buy this place.
He also has a TV network he could shutter
Dude was worth between 100-300 million at his peak. I don’t buy for a second that he’s broke. It’s probably all hidden in crypto or cocaine stashed under the floorboards.
Nah I think this rube not only gave all his liquid cash to daddy Trump throughout the early years he also borrowed against the value of his company at peak to donate more. Then when everyone found out he was a nazi and couldn’t sell pillows anymore the whole house of cards fell down around him.
That being said I hope he ends up in the gutter.
Same, but there’s no way in hell this type of psycho gave it all away. He stashed a couple million somewhere for a rainy day. That’s how these people work.
There’s money in the banana stand
No there isn’t, we shipped the entire banana stand to El Salvador.
It’s only $57K. One of those houses ought to cover it. He can go fuck himself.
Nichols should raise the fine to $40k less than the value of both houses combined and teach this prick what destitute means.
That “nobody will lend me any money” statement also smacks of “I can’t get anyone else to pay this for me”, too.
Bitch, it’s your penalty.
“I have nothing to hide,” Lindell reportedly told Nichols. “I want Smartmatic to see the financial situation I’m in as well.”
Your financial situation is wholly irrelevant. Jesus fuck, these people.
Smartmatic seeing his financial situation:
He could just ask Kyle Rittenhouse for some of that money back.
Oh, shit, I guess somebody actually did get consequences. I wonder if this guy’s problem is that he didn’t realize it’s all a grift.
He was a grifter who was a maga true believer. And he got severely outgrifted.
Ask Rudy about consequences.
Musk is getting close to being in their shoes, Elon is a better grifter though and probably doesn’t trust trump.
The past few months have probably just been a party for musk. He doesn’t give a fuck, and he’s got enough fail upwards magic to be fine after all this ends.
But i would absolutely love to see him end up reenacting Rudys fall.
I think musk might actually be stuoid enough to lose it all. His companies have all profited off first mover advantage and we’re now seeing with Tesla that he is too incompetent to leverage first mover status to his advantage.
His pivot to AI is also a strong sign that he is past his prime of jumping into any new first mover companies. Realistically, that was the only thing he had been able to do but only twice and with many times as many failures.
Every indication is that xAI or whatever the fuck he’s calling it is heading for a flop and I hope he goes all in on it.
Charlie Munger said Elon bets the farm too often to be investible. And he’s right.
Croc tears you bitch pillow boy
Has he tried Russia? They seem to bank roll his lot.
Russia wants useful idiots. This guy…well he’s not useful.
Let’s all remember that this is part of the theater. Mike Lindell is not broke, and has access to all the money he needs. Mike Lindell won’t miss a meal, or sacrifice any comfort. He doesn’t want to pay the money he owes, and crying before thd judge is a calculated disinformation campaign to make it seem like the reasonable people have scored a victory. You’ll recognize victory when you’re viewing it through the bars of a prison cell.
Using the Alexa Jones method, he did the same thing
He’ll be ok on social security. It’s a good thing he hasn’t aided people who are dismantling the safety nets…
Boo hoo. Maybe if he hadn’t been such a shitheel he wouldn’t have gotten the sanctions imposed against him in the first place. Most people manage to go through their entire lives without ever even facing, nevermind losing, a defamation suit - I hope he gets exactly zero sympathy.
never forget this creature was begging for martial law.
Im in Canada and this discount store near me that sells clothes from liquidations, must have gotten a truck load cause they have my pillows for $5. I don’t know how they ended up in Canada but im guessing some trailer park boys style smuggling run
The Swayze Express does it again!
Must have been that greasy Samsquatch!
Good. What a fucking piece of shit. Well deserved.
