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Nevilledog

(51,067 posts)
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 11:49 AM Jan 2022

Mike Lindell Started a New Election 'Hub,' and It's Run by Two Jan. 6 Riot Attendees




https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-lindell-started-a-new-election-hub-and-its-run-by-two-jan-6-capitol-riot-attendees?via=ios

t’s been a year since Joe Biden was sworn in as president, but pillow magnate Mike Lindell is still spending big to promote election crackdowns and to support Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was rigged. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Lindell says he’s bleeding cash at a rate of a million dollars a month to support a host of groups and right-wing activists.

To add to the bill, the staunch Trump ally says he is shelling out $250,000 a month for a new election-conspiracy group, Cause of America. What makes this Lindell creation unique is that the group is fronted by two women who were in attendance at the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Lindell’s hefty monthly burn rate and the addition of a new group to his portfolio of prolific “Big Lie” activism shows that, months after Arizona’s $6 million audit circus failed to provide much more than embarrassing headlines, there’s still plenty of money available for conservative activists bent on re-litigating the 2020 election with bizarre voter-fraud and election-rigging allegations.

The Jan. 6 experience of two of the group’s executives, Ashe Epp and Holly Kasun, also highlights how, a year after the insurrection, veterans of the “Stop the Steal” rallies and Capitol riot are now welcome not just to participate in the conservative movement’s election activism, but to lead it, as well.

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Mike Lindell Started a New Election 'Hub,' and It's Run by Two Jan. 6 Riot Attendees (Original Post) Nevilledog Jan 2022 OP
Lindell Doesn't Have The Money... ProfessorGAC Jan 2022 #1
I don't know....he's a pretty easy mark for bigger grifters. Nevilledog Jan 2022 #2
Seems This Is Something... ProfessorGAC Jan 2022 #3
I don't know, but bloomberg plays his pillow commercials in the early morning hours, and it pisses JohnSJ Jan 2022 #4
He may as well spend what he has before Dominion takes it! nt Gore1FL Jan 2022 #5
In fairness, what would happen if Lindell ran it the way he runs his pillow company? brooklynite Jan 2022 #6

ProfessorGAC

(64,990 posts)
1. Lindell Doesn't Have The Money...
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 11:52 AM
Jan 2022

...to spend a million a month on windmill tilting.
Who's really paying for it?

ProfessorGAC

(64,990 posts)
3. Seems This Is Something...
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 12:09 PM
Jan 2022

...the daily beast could be exploring.
The real "gotcha" isn't the 2 drones getting paid off.

JohnSJ

(92,122 posts)
4. I don't know, but bloomberg plays his pillow commercials in the early morning hours, and it pisses
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 12:41 PM
Jan 2022

me to no end, to allow an insurrectionist to advertise his products on their financial network


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