Mike Lindell, the famous evangelical entrepreneur and inventor and founder of My Pillow, a pillow and sheets manufacturing company, has vehemently maintained that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former president Donald Trump, and last week seemed to walk willingly into a well-laid trap by CNN, granting the leftist network a two-hour-long interview, of which less than 12 minutes were aired on the Anderson Cooper 360° show on August 6.
Since its release last week, the antagonistic exchange between Lindell and CNN reporter Drew Griffin has received more than a million views on YouTube. Lindell’s interview comes just days before his “Cyber Symposium: A Data Analysis of the November 2020 Election” is held August 10-12, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
That invitation-only, two-day event, which will be live-streamed to the public, is set to feature cyber experts on panels from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00.p.m. daily. Names of presenters were not included in the agenda sent to attendees, but program notes mention access to a Cyber Center Kiosk and Mock Election Room, as well as the opportunity to meet with cyber experts from regions across the country and to network with state leaders.
The New American will have a team reporting from the conference, providing interviews with panelists to be published on the TNA website.
“The entire purpose [of the symposium],” read the agenda, “is to reveal and discuss the cyber data packet captured from the November 2020 election.”
Seemingly having captured only a snapshot of that data, CNN anchor Cooper launched a vicious attack against Lindell during the opening of his show last week, dismissing Lindell’s claims that China hacked the 2020 presidential election, switching millions of votes from former president Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
Yet despite missing context from his reporting — Lindell reportedly spent more than two hours with CNN, though the interview that aired was under 15 minutes — Cooper produced a few solid facts, specifically that “Lindell is not backing down, even as he faces a lawsuit from voting machine maker Dominion, alleging he’s defamed the company with his false accusations, and Lindell’s company is counter-suing.”
For CNN, Lindell’s accusations “threaten democracy” and are “complete nonsense.” The outlet cited two dozen election officials and cyber experts contacted by CNN to investigate Lindell’s claims. Griffin, interviewing Lindell in his home state of Minnesota, pressed the My Pillow CEO for the “absolute proof” that the election was stolen, something Lindell has repeatedly said he has, “100 percent.”
In the final interview — Lindell later told Steve Bannon on the War Room that he taped the full two-hour-plus conversation — Lindell points to what appear to be screenshots of billions of computerized strings of data from the election, which Lindell said contain time stamps of when the fraud occurred and flipped the vote from Trump to Biden.
To average viewers, however, the data is impossible to comprehend, and, unfortunately, Lindell does not provide any explanation as to what it all means. His symposium promises to provide the answers.
While CNN “fact-checkers” argued that Lindell’s evidence is “nothing but publicly available voting data,” Lindell fired back that the fact-checkers were wrong. “You didn’t hire a cyber expert,” he said.
According to CNN, all of the 15 counties, where Lindell has argued in several lawsuits that the vote hacking occurred, used paper ballots and Dominion ballot-scanning machines that were never connected to the Internet.
However, in Delta County, Michigan, where Lindell says more than 3,000 votes were switched from Trump to Biden, reporter Griffin and a Republican Delta County clerk are seen in the interview video standing over a Dominion machine handling two “digital storage cards that keep a running tally of the votes.”
The cartridges are shown to be easily taken in and out of the machine, raising the question of how easily they could have been compromised, either digitally or manually.
The Delta County clerk maintained that the county conducted three election audits, and that after every count, the paper ballots perfectly matched the scanned ballots. Even Michigan’s Republican-led Senate did an investigation, which CNN claims resulted in “no evidence of widespread or systemic fraud.”
Lindell believes the votes can be (and were) hacked after they are tabulated, and that the observations of county officials who claim there was no fraud could be “misconstrued because they don’t realize what happened.”
For CNN, Lindell is a serious threat, who “mistakenly or deliberately [is] destroying the confidence in the legitimately elected president of the United States and fostering what could be real damage.”
That same day, in an interview including Lindell, Republican politician Raynard Jackson, lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and People’s Pundit Daily editor Richard Baris, War Room host Steve Bannon asked Lindell if his data has been checked enough, and if he gave CNN raw data.
“We kept going round and round because they kept lying and kept trying to twist things,” Lindell told Bannon. “But let’s give them credit, at least they are one step above Fox because Fox won’t even talk, let’s not forget that.”
Lindell quipped that the CNN interview was an advertisement for what people will discover at the symposium this week, and that he presented the outlet with new evidence, which they didn’t show in the final broadcast. “They minimized it [the evidence], they’re lying, they wanted to get out of it, out of the attempt to discredit [me],” he said.
Lindell has promised a prize of $5 million to anyone who can prove him wrong.
“That’s why we’re having the symposium…. I’ve hired people from everywhere, and now we have a whole other group that’s going to be looking at it, to validate, validate, validate.”
Biden and other White House officials were invited to Lindell’s event, with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reportedly unable to attend owing to a scheduling conflict.
Said Lindell, “This isn’t about the Democrats…. This is about China attacking our country. We’ve jumped right over socialism to communism, they’re [CNN is] trying to play me over the Democrats. But no, this is all of us as a country…. Remember we have an enemy here, and they’re going to say, wow, they [China] took our country without pulling a trigger.”
Lindell’s Cyber Symposium will be livestreamed nonstop for 72 hours on FrankSpeech.com.
