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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Oliver O'Connell and Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Trump news – live: Mike Lindell says FBI seized his phone, as Trump shares bizarre QAnon image

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Liz Cheney says new revelations reveal true ‘danger’ of Trump

Donald Trump has come out furiously in support of Mike Lindell, the 2020 election conspiracy theorist and CEO of MyPillow, who claimed Tuesday that the FBI seized his cell phone at a fast food restaurant in Minnesota.

The CEO said that he was returning from a hunting trip in Iowa when his car was surrounded at a Hardee’s drive-thru in his hometown of Mankato in southern Minnesota.

“Breaking News: Mike Lindell, ‘THE Pillow Guy,’ was just raided by the FBI. We are now officially living in a Weaponized Police State, Rigged Elections, and all. Our Country is a laughing stock all over the World,” the former president wrote on Truth Social.

Numerous people in the former president’s orbit have recently been subpoenaed by the Justice Department as part of its probe into the effort to overturn his election defeat, and several have reportedly had their devices confiscated.

Meanwhile, the Republican Senate primary in New Hampshire remains too close to call, but the field is being led by Don Bolduc, a hardcore Maga-leaning candidate whom Democrats are betting will be the most beatable Republican in November.

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