WASHINGTON — MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who’s a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump and has promoted conspiracy theories concerning the 2020 election, stated Tuesday that the FBI had seized his cellphone and requested him a couple of county clerk in Colorado who has been charged with election tampering in a safety breach of her county’s voting system final 12 months.
Lindell stated on his podcast, The Lindell Report, that he was stopped by FBI brokers whereas going by means of a Hardee’s drive-thru in Mankato, Minnesota.
“He goes, ‘Nicely, I obtained some unhealthy information.’ I am like, OK, right here it comes, proper? He goes, ‘We’re taking your cellphone. Now we have a warrant to your cellphone,'” Lindell stated. “I stated, ‘My complete firm, I run 5 corporations off that. I haven’t got a pc, my listening to aids run off this, every thing runs off my cellphone.'”
Lindell stated the FBI brokers requested him about Dominion voting machines utilized in Colorado’s elections, in addition to Tina Peters, the clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, and Doug Frank, an Ohio math trainer, who’ve additionally espoused 2020 election conspiracy theories.
Peters pleaded not responsible final week to costs of election tampering and official misconduct in reference to the safety breach final 12 months of Mesa County’s voting system. She is accused of permitting unauthorized individuals to interrupt into the county’s election system searching for proof supporting baseless election fraud theories espoused by Trump.
The explanations for the obvious seizure of Lindell’s cellphone are unclear. In an announcement, FBI spokeswoman Vikki Migoya stated that whereas the company would not touch upon the particular matter of the seizure, the FBI was “at that location executing a search warrant approved by a federal choose.”
Reached for remark by NBC Information, Peters stated that she has not obtained a subpoena from the Division of Justice, however that she did get one as a part of a defamation lawsuit filed in opposition to Lindell by Eric Coomer, a former Dominion Voting Techniques worker focused by Lindell.
Trump, for his half, reacted to the scenario on his Reality Social website Tuesday night time, saying that Lindell had been “raided by the FBI.”
“We at the moment are formally residing in a Weaponized Police State, Rigged Elections, and all,” he wrote.
