{"id":3726,"date":"2026-07-22T08:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:36:04","slug":"trump-ally-mike-lindell-torn-apart-by-maga-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3726","title":{"rendered":"Trump ally Mike Lindell torn apart by MAGA judge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of President Donald Trump\u2019s closest allies, MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell, got slapped down in a court case by a judge Trump himself appointed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter Mike Lindell was held in civil contempt and hit with a $500-per-day fine for 103 days for refusing to pay sanctions he’s owed Smartmatic for years, a federal judge has given the MyPillow CEO exactly one month to pay an \u2018extra penalty\u2019 for his defiance,\u201d reported Law and Crime\u2019s Matt Naham on Tuesday. Smartmatic is a voting machine company that Lindell falsely accused of engaging in fraud during the 2020 presidential election, which Trump continues to insist he won despite losing more than 99 percent of his court cases making that allegation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn late June, Smartmatic asked U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols to clarify whether the voting machine conspiracy theorist would pay some of the contempt penalty to the company or if the sum was to be paid directly to the court,\u201d Naham added. \u201cThe judge, a Donald Trump appointee, answered that question on Monday by entering a judgment in favor of Smartmatic and giving Lindell until Aug. 21 to \u2018pay the total daily contempt penalty of $51,500\u2019 to the \u2018Registry of the Court.\u2019<\/p>\n

In his decision, Nichols pointed out that \u201cwhen a sanction is designed to coerce a recalcitrant party to comply, the sanction should be payable to the court, rather than to the opposing party. [T]he Court imposed the daily civil contempt penalty to coerce compliance, not to compensate Smartmatic[.]”<\/p>\n

Nichols began fining Lindell in April for saying he could not pay the $56,369 in sanctions even though he had spent $187,037.87 in campaign funds from his 2026 run for Minnesota governor solely to buy copies of his own book “What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO” and give them away.<\/p>\n

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Lindell\u2019s gubernatorial campaign has also been beset with controversy. Despite being endorsed by Trump, Lindell was recently found to be registered to vote in Texas, indicating he may not be able to cast a ballot in his own campaign. What\u2019s more, Lindell repeatedly tries to characterize himself as an outsider despite his close ties to Trump, such as when he said this to Trump\u2019s former adviser and ongoing friend Steve Bannon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re having a big GOP endorsement where they\u2019re having a debate and I\u2019m not allowed to come,\u201d Lindell told Bannon on his podcast War Room in May. \u201cThey\u2019ve shut me out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lindell continued, \u201cThe establishment doesn\u2019t want me, Stephen. The Minnesota media\u2014you wouldn\u2019t even know I\u2019m running.\u201d<\/p>\n

He later concluded, \u201cI believe I am the only one that can win, and I believe I\u2019m the only one with the solutions to our problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Trump\u2019s own elites tripped him up: Conservative<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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