MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge has rejected MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's attempt to see the search warrant affidavit that set the stage for his cellphone to be seized by the FBI two months ago in Minnesota.
Lindell, among Donald Trump's leading voices backing the former president's claim that voter fraud in 2020 denied him reelection, sued Justice Department leaders in September in a bid to retrieve the cellphone that he said FBI agents took from him at a Hardee's drive-thru in Mankato.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Minnesota, asked Judge Eric Tostrud to declare the Sept. 13 encounter with FBI agents a violation of his constitutional rights.
