Heading into day 2 of his "symposium" that was billed as the big reveal for conclusive evidence that the 2020 election was hijacked by a "ChIneSe cYbEr AtTAck!!", a fairly significant snag developed for My Mein Pillow huckster and future- filler- of- a- straightjacket Mike Lindell:
Spider (a/k/a Spyder), Mike Lindell's "lead cyber expert," says the packet-capture data the pillow exec has been promising for months would irrefutably show the 2020 election was rigged by China is actually bogus. https://t.co/crrNrJZofd pic.twitter.com/2tEgqLxnKl
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) August 12, 2021
Lindell's expert said "...the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium was illegitimate." Clearly, "Spider/Spyder" took note of the billion dollar defamation suits being lobbed at various Big Lie propagators and decided he wanted to miss out on that fun. ("Spider/Spyder," a.k.a. Josh Merritt, is another one of those "experts" whose credentials are, to use his term of art, illegitimate.)
Then, this added to Lindell's very bad day:
HUGE ruling: Federal judge says Dominion's defamation lawsuits CAN PROCEED against Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani & Mike Lindell. These Trump diehards falsely said Dominion rigged the 2020 election. Dominion wants billions in damages. The Judge is a Trump appointee. (h/t @kpolantz)
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) August 11, 2021
moments after a federal judge ruled that dominion's lawsuits against mike lindell, sidney powell, giuliani, and others can proceed, lindell himself hustles off stage pic.twitter.com/rNbK4iyFyJ
— John Whitehouse+ (@existentialfish) August 11, 2021
To be fair, Lindell may have had to take a crap, but it looks like he may have been signaled that his on-going con cum defamation show was going to have to fold soon.
But, before we leave this sad, sick little man, please check out Philip Bump's encapsulation of the "symposium" and Lindell:
Rob Graham, a technologist and author, went to the summit to evaluate what Lindell claims to have. During a “breakout session,” he and others were provided with access to what Lindell’s team claims to have obtained. Graham shared what they were given — a collection of files that consists of 1) a list of computer Internet protocol addresses and 2) gibberish like that above. Well, technically they were given rich-text format files, some of which were inexplicably converted to hexadecimal encoding. Graham, an expert on Internet data, described the provided material as “a bunch of confusing stuff they can’t explain,” and said that those running the symposium pledged to hand over the “real” information Tuesday night or Wednesday. Meanwhile, Lindell’s live stream of the symposium — being watched by hundreds of thousands of people on one streaming feed — presses on, with the CEO mostly riffing on how toxic the media is. Promotions offer viewers codes for discounts at MyPillow, a useful bit of advertising given that Lindell’s conspiracy theories have cost his company placement in a number of retailers’ inventories. [snip]
This is how all cons end. Things stretch and stretch and stretch until: snap. So instead of presenting your data, you encode it and obfuscate it and promise that there’s actually something there, but wait, hmm, that is weird, let me see what’s happening. Instead you say things like that there was a medical emergency that slowed things down and just ask everyone to stick with you for a moment. It’s just buying time — like Trump calling senators on Jan. 6 — hoping that if another hour or so passes, you can somehow regain control.
Meanwhile, it's easy to see Lindell snapped a while ago.
