Trump ally Mike Lindell reveals who really rigged the voting machines for Biden in 2020
MyPillow mogul and longtime Donald Trump ally Mike Lindell believes that Satan was part of an effort to rig the 2020 election for Joe Biden.
Lindell had a closed-door meeting at the White House with Trump as recently as last month, pleading with the president to bring up the enforcement of an obscure tax provision that touched small businesses, including his own, during the pandemic.
The CEO has been touring the country for years trying to convince people that voter fraud tipped the scales in favor of Joe Biden four years ago.
He spoke outside a courtroom in Denver as he faces defamation charges from Dominion Voting Systems, a company based in the city whom he says help throw the 2020 contest to Biden.
While he blamed many of the usual targets for the result that sent Biden to the White House - including the Deep State, globalists and the Chinese Communist Party - he took things to a different level Monday.
'We're in a battle of biblical proportions, of evil and good. This isn't a party thing. This is a thing for our country and our world,' Lindell claimed.
'And when you say who's behind it all? Satan, there's one. You know, this is a nation that turned its back on God.'
Despite this, he did warn that whatever happens next is 'up to God' and 'much bigger than all of us,' suggesting a sinister 'computer algorithm' overseeing elections.
However, he made it clear that he does not necessarily blame Biden's party for the election.
'When people ask me that, you've never heard me over the last four years bashing the Democrats,' Lindell said.
'The people that did this to our country, I believe it's four: it's the uniparty, the Deep State, Globalists, and the CCP.'
Lindell is currently standing in a defamation lawsuit filed in federal court in Colorado by Eric Coomer, former director of product strategy and security for Denver-based Dominion.
Jury selection took place Monday, with opening statements set to be delivered on Tuesday.
Fox News in 2023 paid $787 million to settle a defamation suit with Dominion Voting Systems after airing claims about the firm's electronic voting machine systems.
Lindell says his legal battles have wrecked his finances. 'I'm in ruins,' he told federal District Court Judge Carl Nichols in a hearing last month relating to the Smartmatic defamation suit against him.
And he continues to face his own situation with the IRS, although he says it is on a matter he brought to the agency's attention.
At issue here is the $10 million Lindell invested in a substance he said was a 'cure' for the coronavirus that he purchased in the spring of 2020. It is now expired and sitting in a warehouse, and Lindell says he wants to take a write-off on the lost value.
'It was Mike Lindell, it's me. I bought the stuff out of my personal money. I put $10 million up to save the country and instead .. was attacked,' he said. He says he tried to send it to Israel, the Philippines, and Brazil, and that the IRS came to view the stockpile. 'So I've been dealing with the IRS on that deduction,' he said, referring to the substance derived from Oleander as both a 'cure' and a 'supplement,' although the FDA rejected it.
The Washington Post reported in April that a political appointee at the the Treasury Department contacted the IRS on Lindell's behalf after he got his second audit letter in two years, intervening on behalf of a 'high profile friend of the president.'
Lindell denied being under a second audit, calling it a 'big lie,' and saying 'I'm the one that reached out to them.'
'They went there, took pictures of all of my warehouses that had all this stuff in there that never, never got used,' he said of the IRS. 'That became an audit and that's still going on,' he said. 'It's just arguing over that deduction.'
He got both issues in front of Trump by asking when he was at the White House for the National Day of Prayer.
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