MyPillow CEO and staunch Trump loyalist Mike Lindell has a brand new documentary out, pushing his long-debunked lies about former President Dona
MyPillow CEO and staunch Trump loyalist Mike Lindell has a brand new documentary out, pushing his long-debunked lies about former President Donald Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden being the product of fraud. It debuted on OAN on Friday. However earlier than it started, the community wished viewers to know only one factor: The 2-hour particular, satirically titled “Absolute Proof,” is only one man’s account of “what might have occurred.”
“Michael James Lindell has bought the airtime for the printed of this program on One America Information (‘OAN’) community,” begins the 90-second disclaimer.
“Specifically, OAN doesn’t undertake or endorse any statements or opinions on this program concerning the next entities or folks: US Dominion Inc. (and any associated entities); Smartmatic USA Corp.; Brian Kemp; Brad Raffensperger, or Gabriel Sterling,” it provides.
The beefy disclaimer highlights how terrified OAN is of getting sued by voting machine firms like Dominion and Smartmatic who aren’t comfortable that Lindell and different Trumpers have used it to unfold lies about voting machines rigging the election for Biden. This isn’t an idle risk: Dominion has already filed a $1.Three billion defamation lawsuit in opposition to Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani for baselessly linking the corporate with fraud, and letters the businesses despatched to Fox Information, Newsmax, and OAN warn that related litigation is “imminent.”
Surprisingly, nevertheless, OAN — an upstart far-right cable community that together with Newsmax has minimize into Fox Information’s viewers by echoing Trump’s large lies in regards to the election — used extraordinarily reckless language whereas selling Lindell’s particular on Twitter, writing falsely that “Rising proof of election fraud reveals that the presidency of the US has been stolen from the American folks” in a tweet that has been flagged.
Rising proof of election fraud reveals that the presidency of the US has been stolen from the American folks.
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Large lawsuits of the kind that Dominion and Smartmatic are threatening have pushed media firms out of enterprise within the latest previous and will signify an existential risk for OAN, even when Lindell is now compensating them for airtime. However the terrifying factor for the general public is that anybody would take the stuff Lindell says within the “documentary” significantly.
“Absolute Proof” is completely bonkers
“Absolute Proof” not solely incorporates no proof, however consists of Lindell endlessly repeating the identical debunked theories he’s been pushing for months now: that not solely did Trump not lose the favored vote, however so many individuals turned out to vote for him that “the algorithms of those machines broke,” prompting Dominion and Smartmatic to get busy rigging issues for Biden.
One among many large holes in Lindell’s conspiracy idea is that recounts and audits haven’t turned up a shred of proof of systemic fraud. Even Trump appointees stated the November Three election was “essentially the most safe in American historical past.” However Lindell, in fact, is way previous the purpose of letting info get in the way in which of something.
Because the documentary progresses, Lindell interviews a lot of so-called “specialists” — similar to retired Col. Phil Waldron, who was lately within the information for working with Giuliani in Michigan to unfold debunked claims about Biden’s victory — with accompaniment offered by ominous music that appears lifted straight from a spoof.
Lindell’s documentary received’t persuade anyone who hasn’t already been mainlining Trump Kool-Help. However shopping for time on OAN means he can current his conspiracy theories with impunity — not like what occurred on Newsmax on Tuesday, when Lindell’s try to unfold lies about voting machines resulted in a horrified host actually getting up and leaving the set as visions of billion-dollar lawsuits seemingly danced by way of his head.
Lindell, it must be famous, has for months been transferring the goalposts about when he would lastly current his smoking-gun proof of fraud. “Absolute Proof” does show one factor: that he’s been bluffing the entire time.