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Rafi Schwartz

The FBI just seized Mike Lindell’s phone at a Hardee’s drive through

Mike Lindell, the multi-millionaire bedding mogul and enthusiastic MAGA seditionist, was stopped by FBI agents at a Hardee’s drive through in Mankato, MN on Tuesday evening, where he claims government officials confiscated his cell phone as part of an investigation into alleged election tampering.

“They told me not to tell anybody,” he claimed during a legally inadvisable livestream shortly after the incident. Waving what appeared to be a Justice Department form, Lindell smirked “okay, I won’t.” He also claimed he doesn’t own a computer (an interesting admission from someone who has spent the past several years purporting to be an expert in cybersecurity) and that he’d run his bedding empire entirely from his smartphone.

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