50 Facts About Mike Lindell

Mike Lindell is the founder and CEO of My Pillow, Inc.

Mike Lindell is a prominent supporter of, and advisor to, former US President Donald Trump.

Mike Lindell has been an active promoter of the toxic plant extract oleandrin as an alternative medicine cure for COVID-19.

Mike Lindell attended the University of Minnesota after high school, but dropped out a few months into his studies.

Mike Lindell stated that he achieved sobriety through prayer in 2009.

In 2004, Mike Lindell invented the My Pillow pillow, which is filled with pieces of shredded foam that interlock.

In 2020, Mike Lindell named his son Darren as the company's chief operating officer, citing his own possible future political ambitions.

Mike Lindell operates two web sites under the "Frank" brand: Frank, focused on video streaming, and the social network FrankSocial.

Mike Lindell described the site as a cross between YouTube and Twitter that would be different from Gab and Parler.

Mike Lindell has said he has spent millions of dollars developing Frank.

All the various products and ventures Mike Lindell has going on, whether it's a pseudo-documentary film or a social media platform, are very expensive endeavors.

Mike Lindell founded the Mike Lindell Foundation, a non-profit organization that assists former addicts in getting treatment and other services.

In 2019, Mike Lindell launched the Mike Lindell Recovery Network, which connects addicts with others who have gone through drug addiction and the recovery process, as well as faith-based treatment centers and other recovery organizations.

On October 19,2016, Mike Lindell attended the final presidential debate in Las Vegas.

Mike Lindell spoke at a Trump campaign rally in Minneapolis on November 6,2016, and attended the Official Donald Watch Party on November 8.

Mike Lindell attended Trump's inauguration, and Trump gave him an inauguration lapel pin as a personal gift.

In 2017, Mike Lindell sat next to Trump at an industry roundtable event at the White House.

Mike Lindell spoke at a Trump rally on October 4,2018, in Rochester, Minnesota.

Mike Lindell spoke at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference, in which he promoted Trump as "the greatest president in history" and "chosen by God".

In 2019, Mike Lindell met with Trump and his staffer on issues of opioid addiction.

Mike Lindell was there when Trump signed a bipartisan bill that addressed the growing opioid crisis and trying to prevent opioid abuse and death.

Mike Lindell had considered running for governor of Minnesota in 2022 against Democratic incumbent Tim Walz, reportedly at Trump's urging.

Mike Lindell attended a Republican Governors Association meeting, at which he was encouraged to run.

In November 2020, Mike Lindell was among those who paid for the bail of the Kenosha shooter, then-17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse.

Mike Lindell responded to the accusations saying that he donated to "The Fight Back Foundation Inc to help fund election fraud litigation, among other things" and that the story was "Fake News".

In May 2022, Mike Lindell rejoined Twitter, circumventing a Twitter ban on his former account.

In November 2022, Mike Lindell announced that he was running for Chair of the Republican National Committee.

Mike Lindell has a financial stake in Phoenix Biotechnology, a company that makes oleandrin, and sits on its board.

Mike Lindell's unsubstantiated claims alarmed scientists, since there is no scientific evidence that oleandrin is a safe or effective coronavirus treatment, and there is evidence the plant is poisonous at low doses.

Mike Lindell helped sponsor a bus tour that sought to challenge the election results.

Mike Lindell attended this rally, but did not go to the Capitol.

On January 15,2021, Mike Lindell carried a document into the West Wing of the White House; the document, as seen in an enhanced photo, appeared to refer to martial law and the Insurrection Act, as well as replacing Gina Haspel with Trump loyalist Kash Patel as the CIA director.

Mike Lindell promoted a conspiracy theory, popular with Trump supporters, that falsely claimed that voting machine companies Smartmatic and Dominion conspired with foreign powers to rig voting machines to steal the election from Trump.

On January 25,2021, Twitter permanently banned Mike Lindell for perpetuating the unfounded claim that Trump won the 2020 election.

Mike Lindell purchased three hours of airtime on One America News Network, which had been threatened with legal action, to broadcast Absolute Proof, a documentary that makes false claims about the election, on February 5,2021.

In March 2021, Mike Lindell said on Steve Bannon's War Room: Pandemic podcast he would counter-sue Dominion in cases for himself and My Pillow, accusing Dominion of racketeering and election interference.

Mike Lindell filed a civil suit against Dominion and Smartmatic in June 2021.

Reporter Donie O'Sullivan brought cybersecurity expert Harri Hursti to the conference, and Hursti said that Mike Lindell's purported evidence was a "pile of nothing" and found no proof of election fraud.

Mike Lindell provided a detailed list of IP addresses he asserted had been compromised.

County Clerk Mike Lindell Rosedale stated that all county voting machines were fully airgapped from the Internet, noting that seven Idaho counties do not use voting machines.

Mike Lindell alleged that a specific formula had been applied by hackers to flip votes from Trump to Biden.

Rosedale said Mike Lindell had not contacted his office before presenting his allegations.

Chief Deputy Secretary of State Chad Houck said Mike Lindell would be sent a bill for the audits.

In January 2022, Mike Lindell claimed that he possessed "enough evidence to put everybody in prison for life, 300-some million people" for their part in the alleged 2020 election fraud, which, at the time, was about 91 percent of the US population.

Mike Lindell married Dallas Yocum in June 2013 and filed for divorce in mid-July 2013 after she left him.

Mike Lindell is an evangelical Christian and received an honorary Doctor of Business from Liberty University in 2019, for his expertise as an entrepreneur.

In January 2021, the Daily Mail published a story stating that Mike Lindell had a nine-month relationship with actress Jane Krakowski between late 2019 and the summer of 2020.

Mike Lindell, represented by attorney Charles Harder, sued the Daily Mail, alleging libel.

In March 2021, Mike Lindell said on The Domenick Nati Show that he was no longer living in Minnesota and was not attending in-person events over safety concerns.

On January 17,2023, during the swearing-in of Dan Patrick as Lieutenant Governor of Texas for a third term, Patrick indicated that Mike Lindell, who was attending the ceremony, had moved to Texas a few years earlier.