MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell complained after a federal judge decided that he must pay a cybersecurity expert $5 million after he stepped up to Lindell's challenge to debunk election-related claims.
During an appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast, Lindell told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference about his loss in court.
"This is pretty close to the anniversary of your coming to Christ and stopping being a, what is it, crackhead?" Bannon began. "And a degenerate gambler, right?"
"Right," Lindell agreed.
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"Tell me about the company, they're trying to put you out of business, they came that close," Bannon said. "They're trying to put Trump, you, and Rudy [Giuliani] in bankruptcy."
"Well, you might all see the news this morning, another ruling came out of Minnesota against me, $5 million, which, well, gotta go to another appeal, and a big distraction wastes more money," Lindell explained. "That was for that challenge from back in the cyber symposium of 21, and the media's all down at that end just attacking me from around the world, but I'm welcoming it, I want to tell them, hey, we have to get rid of the electronic voting machines and go to paper ballots hand-counted."
"And I told them, I said, here's the plan to secure our elections, I'm not gonna be distracted by this, but if you guys wanna learn the plan, go to lindellplan.com. Right now in the state of South Dakota, we just this week, 12 more counties have committed to go to paper ballots hand-counted," he added.
"We're not able to pay — I can't borrow money to pay these attorneys," Lindell told CBS News. "MyPillow can't pay because of what happened. I have $10,000 to my name."
He also said he will be appealing the $5 million ruling. "Of course we're going to appeal it. This guy doesn't have a dime coming," he said.
In his Wednesday ruling, U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim said Lindell must pay $5 million to cybersecurity expert Robert Zeidman, who proved that the pillow executive did not have evidence that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
