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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Peter Stone in Washington

MyPillow chief spends tens of millions in fresh crusade to push Trump’s big lie

Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder, in Bemidji, Minnesota in September 2020.
Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder, in Bemidji, Minnesota, in September 2020. Photograph: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

The MyPillow chief executive, Mike Lindell, a fervent Donald Trump ally, says he has poured $35-40m into a wide crusade – a wave of lawsuits to get rid of voting machines that he faults for Trump’s defeat, a new movie about voting fraud, and a hefty legal stable – to promote charges that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud, despite a flood of contrary evidence.

In his frenetic quest to dispense with electronic voting equipment that he has often charged is defective, Lindell is hosting a two-day “Moment of Truth” summit on 20 and 21 August in Missouri, that he expects will draw 200 federal and state officials and staff, as well as hundreds of representatives from groups nationwide who have investigated alleged election fraud this year and in 2020.

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