A judge ruled against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Thursday and ordered him to pay the $5 million prize to the winner of his challenge to disprove his 2020 election fraud claims.
U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim upheld the previous ruling from a private arbitration panel last April that found computer and software expert Robert Zeidman succeeded in rejecting his data related to 2020 election fraud claims. Lindell has long repeated former President Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen.”
Zeidman found the data provided by Lindell for his “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge was not from the 2020 election, which was confirmed by the panel and Tunheim. The winner of the challenge was promised $5 million, but Lindell has fought it in court instead of paying Zeidman. Tunheim gave Lindell 30 days to pay up.
Lindell confirmed last year that he does not have the funds to pay his legal team that represented him through the case. During several incomplete depositions, Lindell claimed that his company “has been hurt so bad” by not only this case but a pending defamation case to the tune of “tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars.”
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According to a statement, Lindell only has “a pickup truck and a house that I live in.” Meanwhile, he claimed his company is “doing fine.”
The CEO continues to deny the 2020 election and claims that data was from the 2020 election. Lindell is scheduled to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday in Washington, D.C.
