Mike Lindell, the pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theorist, mentioned Tuesday that the FBI has seized his mobile phone.
Mr Lindell, the Minnesota-born CEO of My Pillow and a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump who rose to nationwide prominence for his long-running makes an attempt to assist overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, reportedly mentioned that his mobile phone was seized in Minnesota.
In an look on the programme The Lindell Report, Mr Lindell mentioned that he was getting back from a searching journey in Iowa when his automotive was surrounded at a Hardee’s drive-thru in his hometown of Mankato in southern Minnesota.
“Vehicles pulled up in entrance of us, to the facet of us, and behind us and I mentioned these are both dangerous guys or the FBI,” Mr Lindell mentioned. “Nicely, it seems they had been the FBI.”
The execution of a search warrant on Mr Lindell represents one other strike by the FBI in opposition to a member of Mr Trump’s circle. Mr Lindell suggested Mr Trump as president, together with on a pseudoscientific Covid treatment, and has been one probably the most ardent promoters of conspiracy theories in regards to the 2020 election.
“The FBI got here after me and took my cellphone,” Mr Lindell mentioned is one other clip posted to social media. “They surrounded me at a Hardee’s and took my cellphone that I run all my enterprise, the whole lot with. What they’ve finished is weaponise the FBI, it’s disgusting. I don’t have a pc, that cellphone, the whole lot was on all people.”
Mr Lindell then flashed for the digicam a bit of paper that he claimed is an order to not inform anybody in regards to the search.
The Submit Millennial reported that Mr Lindell mentioned FBI officers requested him questions in regards to the Colorado and Dominion voting machines earlier than informing him of their warrant to take his cellphone. Mr Lindell then mentioned he consulted with a lawyer earlier than finally surrendering his cellphone.
