Election denier and 'MyPillow Guy' Mike Lindell confirms he's out of money, can't pay legal bills
Lindell confirmed in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday that he’s out of money and said he understands his lawyers are people who need to make a living.
Attorney Andrew Parker wrote in documents filed in federal court on Thursday that his firm and a second firm representing MyPillow in lawsuits by Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems can’t afford what it would cost to represent Lindell and MyPillow through the rest of the litigation. Continuing to defend him would put the firms “in serious financial risk,” he wrote.
It’s the latest in a string of legal and financial setbacks for Lindell, who propagates former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, in part by rigged voting machine systems. Several big-box retailers, including Walmart, have discontinued his products.
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Bullshit. He's not 'out of money'...he's 'out of the money he's willing to part with'. Big difference.
They need to find his secret stashes of cash and make sure it goes to the people he owes.
Check his pillows
There's always money in the pillow stand.
It's a Lumpy pillow Michael, how much could it possibly cost? $79.98?
His pillows are shit, they're fucking terrible.
Probably due to being filled with money
You would think governments would print more comfortable bills
It is the immigrants fault
Everything is the immigrants' fault ... like they forced pillow dick to be stupid and the banks to raise interest rates. 🙄
For crack ?
...or out of the money that hasn't been offshored.
He's lying. Rich people don't ever go broke.
This implies he was ever actually rich in the first place. For people like this it was a con from the start, built of lies and debt.
I dunno, I think he sold a heck of a lot of lumpy jesus pillows. If he didn't decide to start lying about the election he probably would have lived a very comfortable life.
Had Trump never gotten the stupid idea to run—which was what put him under the microscope—in the first place, everyone, from the top down, would have been fine and could have kept their respective grifts going well into the lich-esque ages they’d have inevitably reached because these scumbags live for-fucking-ever.
Part of me is glad they’re being brought into the light like the cockroaches they are so they can [potentially] face justice, but another part of me thinks that whatever victory the American citizens gain in this will be a pyrrhic one (metaphorically), and we’d have been better off had we never heard of any of them from the outset.
This is what's so hilarious to me, he's his own worst enemy. It's like with covid, if he had sat back and sold overpriced masks to the rubes while taking advice from those smarter than him he would have fucking SAILED into re-election. Same with the women he defamed (her name is eluding me at the moment). Almost immediately after the trial ended he did it again and she sued again. He just can't shut the fuck up and keep his enormously inflated ego out of the mix.
He’s basically Yogurt from Spaceballs in his craven self-promotion, so it’s utterly wild to me that he didn’t go for such an obvious
griftmerchandising opportunity; but I guess if any such opportunity could indirectly help anyone on his shit list—which comprises 99% of the American people—he’d rather miss out.Not if he was using one of his pillows
A recovering addict hopefully knows better than to go lie on his own supply.
There is a difference between selling pillows and selling pillows profitably.
Some people (morons) suck at business and can't turn a profit with any amount of revenue.
That and his seeming drug addiction
Yeah. There’s a big difference between “you can’t prove I have any money” and “I’m living in my car”.
He's not that rich. He was worth like $40 million at his height, he's being sued by dominion for $1.2 billion, and I think there's a second similiar lawsuit in the works. He's fucked.
Lol imagine getting sued for 1.2 billion... like fuck, my great great great grandchildren still wouldn't have that paid off
That one lawsuit is like 4x the value of his company, if you've been itching to get a mypillow better hurry while they're still available
My money's on an incoming fundraiser or emergency batch of pillows for extra money to support "the cause."
It’s such a bummer this is true. This fucking country
Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Easy.
To be fair, he did manage to build himself up from rock bottom.
True that. He is an attention whore and a cultist. He also has more business savvy than most.
Wrong rich idiot. This one was a crack addict.
Why do the rich have a very different definition of "out of money"? To us pesents, out of money means being homeless on the streets and going off of food stamps. A fate I wish he ended up in, and what he should end up in.
This seems like capitalism at work.
I won’t believe it until the Audi he’s driving in the photo is replaced with a Ford Tempo that he’s borrowing from his roommate at the flophouse he has to live in, scraping by by selling junk through an MLM scheme because that’s what’s most apropos for him, the boot-licking Paul Bearer-ass-looking motherfucker
Stop, I can only get so aroused!
A year from now there will be an article about how he and Giuliani sucking each other off in a Dennys parking lot after both have lost everything.
Them being "out of money" is really "nah I feel like just not paying". They have different rules for them. They still have millions in the bank. Must be hard with only that much.
Bingo. They're broke minus material holdings in gross excess of the general public and all the assets they've hidden.
~~ in a Dennys parking lot ~~
in a georgia cell block
"Oh no! I'm out of money! Guess you'll have to stop suing me" *shrug*
The definition of "cancel culture" has been spread so thin by conservatives that this guy thinks that throwing away all his money into a volcano of easily proven lies is "getting cancelled"
Good.
I'm out of money says the guy wearing a $5000 suit and a gold ring while driving an Audi.
It's obvious this guy fried his brian on drugs and religion.
This is the life.
This is the Life of Brian.
People's Front of Judea, you splitter!
Seems convenient.
Tickle my pickle and I'll give ya a nickel... just ask uncle Donny for some paper
In spanish thats pronounced "Adios motherfucker"
Consequence culture claims another victim. Go woke or go broke!
Sounds like he's going to owe more legal bills.
this is fantastic news!
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.
Oh wait, Trump exists.
I too can confirm I am out of money
Good. Tired of hearing about this dumb fuck. Hope he just fades into the abyss.
Oh no, anyway
This guy has to be a secret crack head. Like Billy Mays, but in smokable form.
Money? Isn't this dude going to prison?
That's why he's going to jail. Because he's not loaded anymore. He's one of us, so to speak.