MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell (Real America’s Voice/screengrab)
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said in a media interview on Monday that he’s not afraid of jail because he’s already been there and, in any event, a “huge case” will soon come before the U.S. Supreme Court that will end 9-0 in his favor, just as the justices ruled to keep Donald Trump on the ballot.
Lindell began the remarks on Human Events’ Real America’s Voice by railing against Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) for “what she’s done” to indicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters.
Peters, who was featured in the Lindell-funded 2020 election conspiracy movie “[S]election Code,” was accused at the state level of tampering with election equipment, attempting to influence public servants, and engaging in official misconduct by allowing an unauthorized third party to make copies of voting machine hard drives, leading “confidential digital images” of county Dominion Voting Systems equipment and passwords to be “published on the internet.”
Though her trial was set to begin in early February, Peters fired her lawyers, leading to a delay until late July. In December, Peters sued U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to shut down the state prosecution and a federal probe relating to identity theft, intentional damage to a protected computer, and conspiracy, a probe in which she and Lindell were previously identified as “subjects.” Court records reviewed by Law&Crime that a subsequent Peters request to U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit for an “injunction pending appeal and for expedited merits briefing” was denied on Feb. 5.
“To obtain an injunction pending appeal, Appellant must show that she is likely to succeed on the merits, that she is likely to suffer irreparable harm without an injunction, that the balance of equities tips in her favor, and that an injunction is in the public interest,” the court concluded. “We have considered appellant’s motion in light of these standards and we find she has not carried her burden.”
In light of this, Lindell commented Monday that Peters “and the whole group” are being persecuted by the state, specifically Griswold, who previously sued Peters over the data breach and successfully had her election duties stripped ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
“By the way everybody, if you want to see the image, if you want to see what’s inside the computers, the machines, go to frankspeech.com put in ‘inside the machines.’ I put the whole image up there, Jack, a year and a half ago, and the media won’t even tell people about it,” Lindell told interviewer Jack Posobiec. “My lawyers are going, ‘Mike, you could, you could maybe go to jail.’ You know I said, ‘I don’t care, I’ve been there before.’ The world needs to know what this woman did, this Jena Griswold. And it’s disgusting, and Tina Peters was just doing her job as were other clerks, made a backup of a computer before they came in and deleted our election.”
From here, Lindell said a “huge case,” perhaps to be announced within two weeks, is on the horizon and ticketed for the Supreme Court. He also predicted it would be “another 9-0.”
“We have a huge case that’s going to get to the Supreme Court, and I believe it within two weeks, Jack. And we’re going to get the word out everywhere when this, when we make this announcement, my lawyers and myself, when we make this announcement, it’s one thing that people need to know that it’s at the Supreme Court so they can accept it, and I believe when they do it, it’s going to be another 9-0,” he said.
Lindell did not get into specifics on the case.
In September, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, composed of a panel of conservative judges, rejected Lindell’s attempt to get his cell phone back from the government, writing that “irritation as to where and how the government took possession of his cell phone does not give rise to a constitutional claim.”
After Lindell’s phone was seized from him in a Hardee’s drive-thru in Mankato, Minnesota — while he was on his back from a duck hunting trip in 2022 — a warrant revealed that the feds were looking for “[a]ll records and information on the LINDELL CELLPHONE that constitute fruits, evidence, or instrumentalities of violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1028(a)(7) (identity theft), 1030(a)(5)(A) (intentional damage to a protected computer), and/or 371 (conspiracy to commit identity theft and/or to cause intentional damage to a protected computer).” The feds were probing several “subjects,” including Lindell and Peters.
Lindell and his company also face billion-dollar defamation lawsuits by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, racking up legal bills and sending some attorneys to the exit after falling behind on payments.
Colin Kalmbacher contributed to this report.
