MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said Wednesday he will seek compensation from the newly established “anti-weaponization” fund announced by the Department of Justice earlier this week.
Nearly $1.8 billion will be used to settle grievances against the government for alleged wrongdoing.
Lindell said his company lost millions in earnings after he amplified false claims that President Trump won the 2020 election.
“We had three third parties look and do an evaluation of MyPillow, what it was prior to all these attacks and what it is now. And all of them averaged $400 million that it cost the brand and cost MyPillow. And it’s just horrific that our own government could do this to the American dream,” Lindell said during an appearance on Lindell TV, which he owns and operates.
“This company was built on the American dream and made in the USA and to have this happen. It will be a blessing to actually get some of these, my employees made whole that were stockholders in MyPillow. And even a lot of them that have lost their jobs, you know, that were affected then and all this,” Lindell added.
The MyPillow CEO said he spent $25 million to bolster Trump’s claims of election fraud, which included a three-hour programming block on One America News Network to air a documentary that bolstered conspiracy theories denying that former President Biden won the 2020 election.
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