NEVER REST

Laugh at him. Shun his business. Sue him. The Pillow King won’t stop his bizarre quest to prove Donald Trump was cheated

- Josh Dean

A typical person would be mortified to get caught on cam-era, outside the Oval Office, clutching notes that seem to suggest martial law as a way to help overturn a presidential election. For Mike Lindell, it was a blessing. Possibly the best thing that had happened to the founder and chief executive officer of MyPillow Inc. in the challenging days since Donald Trump, the candidate he’d fervently supported for the past four-odd years, lost the election and his job.

“Oh, this is so great,” Lindell told me by phone in late January, from an undisclosed location that later turned out to be Texas. “That was a miracle that they took that picture. … Now all of a sudden, all the media is coming to me. Nobody came to me before, because they didn’t want me to say the truth.”

That “truth” being Lindell’s opinion— evidence-defying conviction is more like it—that the Nov. 3 election of President Joe Biden wasn’t a true and fair result. Biden, Lindell asserts, “is not our real president” and is in the Oval today only because of many injustices including, but not limited to, voting by dead people, voting by illegal immigrants, voting by minors, late-night dumps of ballots printed in China and smuggled into Georgia, and—the one he really can’t abide—the hacking of machines from Dominion Voting Systems Inc. China did this, along with four other countries, he said. “You had China, a little bit of Russia. You had Iran. I can’t remember the other two. It might’ve been Iraq.” To state the obvious, none of this has been proved anywhere.