MyPillow Man Mike Lindell Ordered to Pay Legal Fees for Guy Who Proved Him Wrong at ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ Event

MyPillow CEO and primo Donald Trump evangelist Mike Lindell has suffered thing but financial and ineligible mishaps ever since helium hitched his wagon to Trump’s star. Unfortunately, galore of these mishaps are self-created and could person rather easy been avoided. Case successful point: He stake $5 cardinal immoderate feline couldn’t beryllium him incorrect and was ordered aft that feline proved him wrong. Now, aft going to court to effort to debar paying the money, Lindell volition person to wage immoderate of that guy’s attorneys’ fees, which were incurred successful court.

A mates of years ago, erstwhile MAGA-world was successful the throes of its mania implicit a hacked and “stolen election,” Lindell decided to enactment connected a “cybersecurity symposium” wherever helium challenged cyber experts to beryllium that the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination had not been hacked. “Prove Mike Wrong” offered $5 cardinal to immoderate consenting and capable cyber nonrecreational who could show that Lindell was incorrect astir the predetermination being co-opted by Chinese hackers moving connected behalf of the Biden campaign. As you might’ve guessed, idiosyncratic was easy capable to show that this assertion was bullshit.

Lindell provided information investigators with a batch of information that, helium claimed, would beryllium that Trump was robbed of the presidency. However, machine forensics adept Robert Zeidman sifted done Lindell’s information and recovered that it was really not related to the 2020 predetermination astatine all, alternatively involving wide polling data. Of course, erstwhile it came clip to wage up, Lindell didn’t wage him. Well, not initially.

Zeidman subsequently submitted a assertion connected the $5 cardinal bounty to the American Arbitration Association. That enactment yet agreed that Zeidman was owed the multi-million dollar payout that the pillow salesman had initially promised.

Now, Business Insider reports that, successful summation to the $5 million, Lindell volition besides person to wage the guy’s lawyer fees. A national justice has ordered Lindell to wage Zeidman $4,508 successful lawyer fees. Zeidman had initially sought arsenic overmuch arsenic $12,800 for astir 16 billed hours, but the justice ruled that immoderate of Zeidman’s ineligible find requests were “overly broad,” and reduced Lindell’s required payment, BI reports.

Gizmodo reached retired to Lindell for comment.

When it comes to Lindell’s passionateness for Trump, you person to wonderment what’s successful it for him. In summation to the whirlwind of ineligible and fiscal troubles he’s suffered implicit the past fewer years, he’s besides go thing of a nationalist joke. When volition the feline learn?