Lindell confirmed in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday that he’s out of money and said he understands his lawyers are people who need to make a living.

Attorney Andrew Parker wrote in documents filed in federal court on Thursday that his firm and a second firm representing MyPillow in lawsuits by Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems can’t afford what it would cost to represent Lindell and MyPillow through the rest of the litigation. Continuing to defend him would put the firms “in serious financial risk,” he wrote.

It’s the latest in a string of legal and financial setbacks for Lindell, who propagates former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, in part by rigged voting machine systems. Several big-box retailers, including Walmart, have discontinued his products.

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      This implies he was ever actually rich in the first place. For people like this it was a con from the start, built of lies and debt.

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        I dunno, I think he sold a heck of a lot of lumpy jesus pillows. If he didn’t decide to start lying about the election he probably would have lived a very comfortable life.

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          Had Trump never gotten the stupid idea to run—which was what put him under the microscope—in the first place, everyone, from the top down, would have been fine and could have kept their respective grifts going well into the lich-esque ages they’d have inevitably reached because these scumbags live for-fucking-ever.

          Part of me is glad they’re being brought into the light like the cockroaches they are so they can [potentially] face justice, but another part of me thinks that whatever victory the American citizens gain in this will be a pyrrhic one (metaphorically), and we’d have been better off had we never heard of any of them from the outset.

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            This is what’s so hilarious to me, he’s his own worst enemy. It’s like with covid, if he had sat back and sold overpriced masks to the rubes while taking advice from those smarter than him he would have fucking SAILED into re-election. Same with the women he defamed (her name is eluding me at the moment). Almost immediately after the trial ended he did it again and she sued again. He just can’t shut the fuck up and keep his enormously inflated ego out of the mix.

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              He’s basically Yogurt from Spaceballs in his craven self-promotion, so it’s utterly wild to me that he didn’t go for such an obvious grift merchandising opportunity; but I guess if any such opportunity could indirectly help anyone on his shit list—which comprises 99% of the American people—he’d rather miss out.

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          There is a difference between selling pillows and selling pillows profitably.
          Some people (morons) suck at business and can’t turn a profit with any amount of revenue.

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      Yeah. There’s a big difference between “you can’t prove I have any money” and “I’m living in my car”.

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      He’s not that rich. He was worth like $40 million at his height, he’s being sued by dominion for $1.2 billion, and I think there’s a second similiar lawsuit in the works. He’s fucked.

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        Lol imagine getting sued for 1.2 billion… like fuck, my great great great grandchildren still wouldn’t have that paid off

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          That one lawsuit is like 4x the value of his company, if you’ve been itching to get a mypillow better hurry while they’re still available

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      My money’s on an incoming fundraiser or emergency batch of pillows for extra money to support “the cause.”