MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Thursday accused Fox Information of enjoying a “huge half” within the mass 2020 voter fraud that he claims was Donald Trump’s downfall within the election. (Watch the video beneath.)
Lindell, a vociferous election denier who has appeared on Fox Information and different right-wing retailers to shout his pro-Trump conspiracy theories, now says Fox Information was by some means wrapped up within the election “steal” and suppressed the circulation of data.
This might be the identical Fox Information that simply paid Dominion Voting Methods gobs of cash to settle a lawsuit as a result of the community falsely and repeatedly claimed that balloting machines have been rigged towards Trump.
Be warned: Following Lindell’s addled argument may show difficult.
“I consider Fox performed an enormous half on this election crime as a result of again then, they known as Arizona early,” he mentioned, referring to the channel’s right election night time projection that Biden would win the swing state, which angered viewers.
“Smartmatic sued Fox Information on Feb. 4 of 2021,” Lindell continued in a nod to a different voting expertise firm suing Fox for defamation. “That began lawfare on this entire nation. Since that point folks like me haven’t been in a position to go on any conservative media and discuss our election. … So Fox Information has been suppressing for some cause they usually make this cope with Dominion?”
Interviewer Chris Cuomo of NewsNation famous that Fox can’t produce proof of one thing that by no means occurred, and that it acquired into bother for asserting fraud did occur. And it’s dealing with extra authorized jeopardy. To not point out that dozens of Trump-led authorized election challenges went nowhere within the courts.
Lindell claimed he subpoenaed Fox for proof “they usually received’t give us something.”
“However Mike, Mike, they’re not gonna produce proof of the nonexistence of the election being rigged,” Cuomo replied. “And so they did greater than anyone else did to gasoline the hypothesis, which is how they acquired jammed up with Dominion.”
Final week, Lindell was ordered to pay $5 million to man who debunked his concept about Chinese language interference within the 2020 election within the bedding mogul’s 2021 “Show Mike Unsuitable” problem.
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Lindell can also be dealing with a $1.3 billion defamation swimsuit from Dominion.
