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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has phone seized by FBI at fast-food outlet

Mike LindellL ‘Cars pulled up in front of us, to the side of us, and behind us and I said those are either bad guys or the FBI. Well, it turns out they were the FBI.’
Mike LindellL ‘Cars pulled up in front of us, to the side of us, and behind us and I said those are either bad guys or the FBI.’ Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Mike Lindell, the pillow salesman who became an enthusiastic mouthpiece for Donald Trump’s lie about a stolen election, has said he was forced to hand his phone to FBI agents who surrounded him at a fast-food drive-through.

The incident happened on Tuesday as Lindell, chief executive of My Pillow, was in line at a branch of Hardee’s in Mankato, Minnesota, his home town, following a hunting trip.

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