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 didn’t pay him. Well, not initially. Zeidman subsequently submitted a claim on the $5 million bounty to the American Arbitration Association.
That organization eventually agreed that Zeidman was owed the multi-million dollar payout that the pillow salesman had initially promised. Now, Business Insider reports that , in addition to the $5 million, Lindell will also have to pay the guy’s attorney fees. A federal judge has ordered Lindell to pay Zeidman $4,508 in attorney fees.
Zeidman had initially sought as much as $12,800 for approximately 16 billed hours, but the judge ruled that some of Zeidman’s legal discovery requests were “overly broad,” and reduced Lindell’s required payment, BI reports. Gizmodo reached out to Lindell for comment. When it comes to Lindell’s passion for Trump, you have to wonder what’s in it for him.
In addition to the whirlwind of legal and financial troubles he’s suffered over the past few years, he’s also become something of a national joke. When will the guy learn?.
