My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has had both his personal and business Twitter accounts disabled for breaking a disinformation standard. This stems from his frequent assertions that President Donald Trump won the November election, which are untrue.
Earlier, he was once censored for spreading that conspiracy idea, but this time, it came from an unexpected quarter: the Trump-friendly, right-wing newcomer cable network Newsmax.
Newsmax host Bob Sellers tried to interrupt Lindell multiple times as he repeated election lies, but in an odd scenario, Sellers finally gave up and stood up from his chair.
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Why Sellers left the interview
Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, two election-technology businesses, threatened legal action in December over what they perceived as misleading reporting about them.
This prompted Newsmax to produce a program debunking election fraud charges. Dominion has subsequently filed a $1.3 billion defamation action against former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s outlandish conspiracy ideas regarding the presidential election caused Newsmax presenter Bob Sellers to leave their on-air discussion in frustration on Tuesday.
The interview was likely about Twitter’s decision to suspend Lindell’s account and MyPillow’s commercial account because he used both to disseminate conspiracy theories.
But, perhaps inevitably, Lindell attempted to utilize his Newsmax interview for the same goals, claiming to have evidence about voting machine tampering.
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Sellers swiftly shut it down and tried to get the debate back on track, but Lindell continued raving: although it is difficult to know precisely what he was saying as he and Sellers shouted over each other. Eventually, Sellers gave up and walked off stage.
When former President Donald Trump and his friends first began pushing their unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud, Newsmax played a big role in propagating some of the theories, but the network has since cooled down.
There’s speculation that the pro-Trump network has changed its tune at least partly because of the threat from Dominion, the firm behind the voting equipment Lindell complains about, to strike Newsmax with a slander lawsuit.
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