He says he has run out of money to pay his lawyers and a Minneapolis law firm says he owes them millions. MyPillow auctioned off thousands of pieces of equipment and subleased manufacturing space as business is declining.
Lindell has a MyPillow store on Amazon, and state records show the online retailer placed a lien on his company’s inventory and other assets in April. Lindell has said publicly that American Express has tightened MyPillow’s credit, a sign the lender doubts the company can pay down a large balance.
If new attorneys do agree to represent Lindell, there is a massive, and expensive, workload awaiting them as the defamation cases inch toward trial over the next year. In the Smartmatic case alone, more than 6 million documents have been produced. Lawyers for that voting machine company said they would press on with their case even if Lindell ends up representing himself in an eventual trial.
Lindell says he has tried to look after his employees, whose jobs may be at risk. He’s hopeful a new coolant technology in his MyPillow 2.0, bedding and mattress toppers could revive sagging sales of his flagship product.“I’m going to fight these criminals until we win, put it that way.”Struggling with a gambling and drug addiction, Lindell started his company after he said the idea came to him in a dream.
“They just want me to not talk anymore about elections, that’s what the whole purpose of this: silence Mike Lindell,” he said in an interview. Those filings have incurred a big legal tab as his lawyers hunt for the kind of evidence Lindell needs to prove his defense. Lawyers for Lindell and MyPillow said earlier this month they were owed millions and are seeking to quit the defamation cases to protect their own finances.
“Mr. Lindell intentionally stoked the fires of xenophobia and party-divide for the noble purpose of selling his pillows,” attorneys for Smartmatic wrote in an updated complaint filed this spring. “Don’t you think if this was a marketing plan, after I lost retailers and lost hundreds of millions of dollars, that I would go, ‘Oh, this is a bad marketing plan, I should change gears?’” he said.
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