If you're looking for a fool to fleece, look no further than Trump fanatic and unhinged loon Mike "Pillow Guy" Lindell. Lindell is still on his "Big Lie" crusade to prove that his losing cult leader won the 2020 election and will return in a cloud of glory next week next month soon sometime, as the voices in his head are telling him. Being detached from reality at that level and having money to burn makes him susceptible to doling out sweet cash to Trump-style grifters, as the Daily Beast reports:
"It’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." (our emphasis)
We wonder what their work product consists of, at that hefty clip. It can't be easy to generate "deliverables" and "reports" on "activities" when there's no there there. We digress:
"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." (our emphasis)
And to that we say, spend spend spend, grift grift grift. What they spend on Trump's damaged ego rehabilitation project is not spent on future national, state and local elections. The article goes into detail about the malign activities of the Big Lie spreaders funded by the hare-brained Pillow Guy, and is worth a read.
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