MyPillow CEO and primo Donald Trump evangelist Mike Lindell has suffered nothing but financial and legal mishaps ever since he hitched his wagon to Trump’s star. Unfortunately, many of these mishaps are self-created and could have quite easily been avoided. Case in point: He bet $5 million some guy couldn’t prove him wrong and was ordered after that guy proved him wrong.
Now, after going to court to try to avoid paying the money, Lindell will have to pay some of that guy’s attorneys’ fees, which were incurred in court. A couple of years ago, when MAGA-world was in the throes of its mania over a hacked and “stolen election,” Lindell decided to put on a “cybersecurity symposium” where he challenged cyber experts to prove that the 2020 presidential election had not been hacked. “Prove Mike Wrong” offered $5 million to any willing and able cyber professional who could demonstrate that Lindell was wrong about the election being co-opted by Chinese hackers working on behalf of the Biden campaign.
As you might’ve guessed, someone was easily able to demonstrate that this assertion was bullshit. Lindell provided security investigators with a batch of data that, he claimed, would prove that Trump was robbed of the presidency. However, computer forensics expert Robert Zeidman sifted through Lindell’s data and found that it was actually not related to the 2020 election at all, instead involving general polling data.
Of course, when it came time to pay up, Lindell .