MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell broke down in court this week, telling a judge he has no money left to pay the sanctions imposed against him in a defamation case brought by voting technology company Smartmatic.
“I’m in ruins,” Lindell said tearfully during a virtual hearing before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols on Wednesday, according to a report from ABC News. “I borrowed everything I can. Nobody will lend me any money anymore.”
Lindell was ordered to pay $56,369 in sanctions to Smartmatic, which sued him for defamation in 2022 over his baseless claims that the company helped rig the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump.
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vegeta@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 1y
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com · 23 pts · 1y
Still way too big. But I like it.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world · 109 pts · 1y
Nougat@fedia.io · 69 pts · 1y
It's only $57K. One of those houses ought to cover it. He can go fuck himself.
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y
Nougat@fedia.io · 60 pts · 1y
That "nobody will lend me any money" statement also smacks of "I can't get anyone else to pay this for me", too.
Bitch, it's your penalty.
Your financial situation is wholly irrelevant. Jesus fuck, these people.
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Smartmatic seeing his financial situation:
StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net · 28 pts · 1y
Dude was worth between 100-300 million at his peak. I don't buy for a second that he's broke. It's probably all hidden in crypto or cocaine stashed under the floorboards.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Nah I think this rube not only gave all his liquid cash to daddy Trump throughout the early years he also borrowed against the value of his company at peak to donate more. Then when everyone found out he was a nazi and couldn't sell pillows anymore the whole house of cards fell down around him.
That being said I hope he ends up in the gutter.
StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y
Same, but there's no way in hell this type of psycho gave it all away. He stashed a couple million somewhere for a rainy day. That's how these people work.
Dhar@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
There's money in the banana stand
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
No there isn't, we shipped the entire banana stand to El Salvador.
fox2263@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
He also has a TV network he could shutter
conditional_soup@lemm.ee · 88 pts · 1y
Oh, shit, I guess somebody actually did get consequences. I wonder if this guy's problem is that he didn't realize it's all a grift.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 61 pts · 1y
He was a grifter who was a maga true believer. And he got severely outgrifted.
resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee · 30 pts · 1y
Ask Rudy about consequences.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 1y
Musk is getting close to being in their shoes, Elon is a better grifter though and probably doesn't trust trump.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee · 26 pts · 1y
The past few months have probably just been a party for musk. He doesn't give a fuck, and he's got enough fail upwards magic to be fine after all this ends.
But i would absolutely love to see him end up reenacting Rudys fall.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 1y
I think musk might actually be stuoid enough to lose it all. His companies have all profited off first mover advantage and we're now seeing with Tesla that he is too incompetent to leverage first mover status to his advantage.
His pivot to AI is also a strong sign that he is past his prime of jumping into any new first mover companies. Realistically, that was the only thing he had been able to do but only twice and with many times as many failures.
Every indication is that xAI or whatever the fuck he's calling it is heading for a flop and I hope he goes all in on it.
Num10ck@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Charlie Munger said Elon bets the farm too often to be investible. And he's right.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 1y
Let's all remember that this is part of the theater. Mike Lindell is not broke, and has access to all the money he needs. Mike Lindell won't miss a meal, or sacrifice any comfort. He doesn't want to pay the money he owes, and crying before thd judge is a calculated disinformation campaign to make it seem like the reasonable people have scored a victory. You'll recognize victory when you're viewing it through the bars of a prison cell.
Ledericas@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Using the Alexa Jones method, he did the same thing
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 48 pts · 1y
Boo hoo. Maybe if he hadn't been such a shitheel he wouldn't have gotten the sanctions imposed against him in the first place. Most people manage to go through their entire lives without ever even facing, nevermind losing, a defamation suit - I hope he gets exactly zero sympathy.
qprimed@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 1y
never forget this creature was begging for martial law.
skvlp@lemm.ee · 46 pts · 1y
He’ll be ok on social security. It’s a good thing he hasn’t aided people who are dismantling the safety nets…
skabbywag02@lemm.ee · 34 pts · 1y
He could just ask Kyle Rittenhouse for some of that money back.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-actor-ricky-schroder-helped-pay-kyle-rittenhouses-2m-bond-attorney/2377413/
Glide@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 1y
I guess his accomplices never told him: you only get to avoid consequences if you're wealthy.
I kid, of course. I am sure he said this after leaving his 500k-1mil valued house, and driving to the court in an audi. Sorry, pal, but you might just have to give a couple things up until you tug those bootstraps a little harder. It's what you'd tell anyone else living outside of their means and committing crimes to do.
Oh no, wait, you wouldn't. You'd look for a way to tie them to a minority group and ask ICE to come pick them up. Fucking fascist.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
You need more upvotes. You're aggressive, harsh, and direct with your words.
But also correct. More people need to be harsh towards this type of behavior. Why are societies kid gloves still on?
Glide@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
Thanks. I appreciate you saying so.
Wilco@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Just because the words are savage AF doesn't meant they aren't the truth.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 27 pts · 1y
56k is worth tears to this rich nazi* pillow fluffer?
With the company that had 1,500 employees and bought "an average of $1 million in ads per week on Fox"?
*the nazi thing:
wiki/My_Pillow#Other_controversies
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
Im in Canada and this discount store near me that sells clothes from liquidations, must have gotten a truck load cause they have my pillows for $5. I don’t know how they ended up in Canada but im guessing some trailer park boys style smuggling run
AlbinoPython@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
The Swayze Express does it again!
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Must have been that greasy Samsquatch!
Mcdolan@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
How's it feel to be thrown to the wolfs dipshit?
To other dipshits sucking farts, you are not special. Once your usefulness comes to an end you're a nobody who no one will rescue. This should be common sense, what do you do with a pen that has run out of ink? You're all disposable to king trump.
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Croc tears you bitch pillow boy
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 1y
Go call a waaah-mbulance.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
Can't. Defunded them all and threw all the medics into the Marianas Trench, right after tying them to MyCinderBlocks.
Bread_and_Circuses@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 1y
What a fantastic article to read with my morning coffee! I realize he's one in a long list of shitbags who need their comeuppance, but little bits of happiness are still worth it
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Small victories. 🤗
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Thoughts and prayers fuccko
CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Good. What a fucking piece of shit. Well deserved.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
I know what he can do. Set up an Only Fans of him crying about how bad he has it. He can charge a dollar a month and before you know it, he'll be able to pay some of his creditors.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 1y
Has he tried Russia? They seem to bank roll his lot.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y
Russia wants useful idiots. This guy...well he's not useful.
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 1y
Could happen to a better person. Chokes me up just thinking about it.
wanderwisley@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
Welp looks like it’s time to sell some more lumpy pillows at a discount nazi price.
st3ph3n@midwest.social · 8 pts · 1y
Smartmatic: "Fuck you, pay me."
futatorius@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.
drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
Lol welcome to the lower class, asshole! Suffer like the rest of us.
Edit: misspelled word
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Oh man, this is a succulent schadenfreude.
painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
Welp, sell all his assets and sell his few usable body parts.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
He wrote checks his ass could not cash.
Womp-womp.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/judge-says-mike-lindell-must-pay-5-million-man-won-prove-mike-wrong-ch-rcna139986
minnow@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
You know what they say, go woke go broke!
Wait...
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Lol
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Don’t do stupid and illegal bullshit. Grow the fuck up shut the fuck up
droopy4096@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
what about denier-in-chief? Could someone use this ruling as a precedent to launch a lawsuit against him?
Tronn4@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
He should sleep on it
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
It's been said better than i ever could.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
This guy and Russell Brand: the only people who are less annoying when they’re on crack
Shardikprime@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
Weren't smart matic machines used in this election as well?
Another question. Would this mean all the ones who claims similar related to Trump rigging the elections are subject to this same situation happening?