'I'm in ruins': MAGA MyPillow CEO insists he 'doesn't have 5 cents' to pay court tab
Source: Raw Story
April 16, 2025 6:35PM ET
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told a court this week he's broke and won't be able to write a check for all of the sanctions he's been ordered to pay. Lindell claimed in court Wednesday that he and his company had "a combined $70 million in debt." He said the IRS is also garnishing him. Nobody will borrow me anymore. Not one dime, Lindell said. Im in ruins.
"Last month, the voting systems company Smartmatic asked a federal judge in D.C. to hold Lindell in civil contempt over his failure to pay more than $50,000 in sanctions for filing a frivolous counterclaim in a defamation suit brought by a separate company, Dominion Voting Systems," the report said.
Dominion and Smartmatic have both sued Lindell for defamation. In the Dominion suit, the lawyers alleged that Lindell continued to say that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump "because the lie sells pillows."
"Lindell has said in court filings that at one point his company was generating as much as $300 million in annual revenue," WUSA said. Lindell told the court he's living off just $1,000 a week. I dont have $5,000 or 5 cents, Lindell said.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-2671785289/

Oopsie Daisy
(5,602 posts)


forgotmylogin
(7,813 posts)GiqueCee
(2,130 posts)... Mikey, Mikey, Mikey. Cupcake, you spew bald-faced lies with every breath you take, and then get all butt-hurt when you're called out for it, and then YOU LIE SOME MORE!
You deserve whatever fate befalls you, shithead.
DENVERPOPS
(11,760 posts)remember all your self aggrandizing trips to the White House to "Round Mouth" Trump.....now only kicked to the curb?????
zorbasd
(383 posts)facsist liars ever to exist.
JHB
(37,628 posts)Oh, wait...
Jarqui
(10,624 posts)He's getting some punishment for his behavior
Ray Bruns
(5,141 posts)First off Mikey, the word is loan, not borrow.
Next, I thought you had some kind of teamlooking into some other kind of bullshit. So whos paying them?
Finally:
https://m.
Aristus
(69,662 posts)Yet another redneckism from Redneck America...
Ray Bruns
(5,141 posts)Usually pronounced "borry."
SergeStorms
(19,575 posts)just like his hero, the Orange Fascist Pig.
Finding out that loyalty is a one-way street with Trump, Lindell?
markie
(23,307 posts)
I really do not like to see anyone suffer... but if it has to be, couldn't happen to a much more deserving person
Trueblue Texan
(3,282 posts)I can think of AT LEAST one more deserving...
ToxMarz
(2,356 posts)and rember the first rule of Trumpism. "Everything Trump touches, dies."
BumRushDaShow
(150,860 posts)So they are ALL trying to "take advantage" and use "the opportunity - taking a risk by supporting 45's draconian and insane behavior and policies, to attempt to achieve some kind of "gain" for themselves.
But doing so is like playing the lottery.
Ultimately they are engulfed in the losses and you don't hear from them again.
Bengus81
(8,689 posts)Well...then...you hitched your wagon to Trump didn't cha Mikey??
Gawd..Mikey could be the new poster boy for what happens when you kiss the ring and the ass.
rurallib
(63,610 posts)It's a foregone conclusion of Trumpism.
SergeStorms
(19,575 posts)I can't wait for that myself, along with the demise of his fanboys.
SergeStorms
(19,575 posts)but only after Trump has extracted everything of value to him.
Quakerfriend
(5,816 posts)dough
..
Tanuki
(15,803 posts)"Everything Trump Touches Dies"
Hornedfrog2000
(109 posts)To hang out of his shirt so everyone knows hes such a standup guy
twodogsbarking
(13,345 posts)Trueblue Texan
(3,282 posts)My brother and I were stopped at a red light and this guy comes traipsing across the intersection with a wheeled cross on his back. My brother and I didn't get along all that well, but we looked at one another and shared a moment of instant connection. Then my brother stuck his head out the window and screamed, "Get that wheel off that cross, Buddy! Christ had to carry that cross on his back, not cruise it across town." I never loved my brother more.
Ray Bruns
(5,141 posts)
Omnipresent
(6,837 posts)My god, how would any of those scenarios work on a necklace?!
ProudMNDemocrat
(19,594 posts)And he thinks he will have a successful run for Minnesota Governor?
Surely Mikey jests.
NCDem47
(2,761 posts)Oy vey.
Wingus Dingus
(8,942 posts)So don't worry.
Meadowoak
(6,454 posts)He's dumb as a box of rocks, and willing to do anything. He's a Republican wet dream.
C_U_L8R
(47,109 posts)Trump will have Pauper Prisons that will take care of you.
Privatized and offshored in some human-rights-free hell-hole.
johnnyfins
(1,966 posts)Will TSF use the offshore prisons to solve "The Homeless Problem"? Indon't even want to think about that.
C_U_L8R
(47,109 posts)He'll 'disappear' anyone he deems 'undesirable' or an 'enemy of the state'
the nelm
(57 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 17, 2025, 01:54 PM - Edit history (1)
augyboston
(323 posts)Fuck Mike Lindell. He played a role in getting us into this oligarchic autocratic mess that we're in.
I hope he ends up homeless rummaging through dumpsters for his breakfast after a cold night freezing his gonads off in a back alley somewhere.
Simeon Salus
(1,475 posts)If you don't have 10 billion, you're just not on Drumpf's radar...
Paladin
(30,143 posts)Tough shit, MyPillow guy. Looking forward to many more trump sycophants suffering the same fate.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,076 posts)Mike's fortunes may be down, probably well under a billion dollars, maybe under half a billion. I can't believe he's down below one or two hundred million, squirreled away.
surrealAmerican
(11,608 posts)That's not exactly poverty, is it?
Snoopy 7
(640 posts)Pillow guy lives in a $1.2million mansion don't fall for his lies. 1.2 million probably cost over 1 thousand for his light bill. When they lie openly and without remorse all I hear is wawawa...
OldBaldy1701E
(7,667 posts)Dulcinea
(8,221 posts)Some people never learn. Bless your heart, Mike.
I can't wait for Eloon Muskovite, KKKaroline Leavitt, & VD Jance to suffer the same fate.
NNadir
(35,589 posts)It rains on the just and unjust alike.
boyedav1969
(110 posts)These types don't go broke the same way we do. They're great at giving the appearance of having nothing, on paper, for the courts, but do you actually believe that? See also: Rudy Giuliani. Even "broke", I bet these guys are living better than upper-middle class.
Where you hiding it, Mikey?
Pinback
(13,152 posts)Here are a few possibilities:
https://www.worlddata.info/tax-havens.php
sheshe2
(91,353 posts)Vinca
(51,903 posts)I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. Cheer up Mike, maybe you and Rudy can share a box under a bridge somewhere.
Bluethroughu
(7,154 posts)people understand, trump is a loser? He will flush everyone down the toilet with himself.
How many? At least some of the red hats are starting to wake up before it's to late.
Dulcinea
(8,221 posts)That needs to be writ large on billboards all across the country! Everyone traveling on interstates needs to see that instead of ads for adult bookstores, strip joints, & 833-FOR-TRUTH (even though those last ones just make me laugh.)
Srkdqltr
(8,249 posts)MarcoZandrini
(73 posts)Tissue, Mikey.
Baitball Blogger
(49,803 posts)nowforever
(490 posts)thought Donnie boy would help him out and protect his crappy torn foam pillow empire. Like Giuliani he is learning that once you out live your usefulness to the Orange Turd you just another loser suckèr.
mwb970
(11,824 posts)Well, except for the damn ahole himself. HE lives on and on, never experiencing even the tiniest consequence for his sick, vile and disgusting behavior.
I hate him.
Hotler
(12,988 posts)appleannie1
(5,251 posts)twodogsbarking
(13,345 posts)You sowed it now reap it.
Lokee11
(327 posts)
bluestarone
(19,577 posts)He's a lying bastard here as well. like TSF, he couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it!!
JohnnyRingo
(19,843 posts)I believe that. MAGAS flocked to him initially, and many still do.
One person will only buy so many pillows though. He milked the Trump Train for all it was worth, alienating half the population in the process.
I bet he has his money stashed somewhere. Maybe in his mattress or pillows. haha
doc03
(37,717 posts)IronLionZion
(48,488 posts)
Sneederbunk
(16,043 posts)Luciferous
(6,405 posts)SupportSanity
(1,356 posts)Or maybe not.
LilElf70
(838 posts)I could have told him years ago, when he decided to go to bed with Trump, what the outcome was going to be. Everything Trump touches turns into shit. And TSF walks away unscathed. Rinse and repeat.
Like many have said here already...... AWWWWWW
SupportSanity
(1,356 posts)twodogsbarking
(13,345 posts)TommieMommy
(1,818 posts)OLDMDDEM
(2,448 posts)Jimvanhise
(407 posts)His problems are all of his doing. He claimed the 2020 election was "stolen" without a shred of evidence. When he claimed he had evidence it was proven by a Trump voter to be fake, and he never paid what he said he'd pay if anyone could prove it was fake. This guy is a clown. The last time Jimmy Kimmel had him on it was show it was only if Lindell would agree to be interviewed from inside an arcade claw machine. Lindell is a clown and should be treated as such and ignored. He is exactly the kind of nitwit Trump has chosen to fill his administration with.
BumRushDaShow
(150,860 posts)One (Dominion) was able to settle with Faux for $787 million dollars before that trial started -
REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143062141
But most of the others who were named in both suits, are still going through pre-trial stuff.
Autumn
(47,713 posts)That's a hell of a lot more than most people live on.
Moostache
(10,444 posts)Fruits of the spirit and all that noise...
On the other hand, my obliques are KILLING me from laughing so damn hard at this fool.
sakabatou
(44,566 posts)republianmushroom
(19,488 posts)Screw you, dude.
live love laugh
(15,173 posts)IronLionZion
(48,488 posts)Owens
(501 posts)Escurumbele
(3,764 posts)trump likes to help people like you, he does it all the time, he is the #1 philanthropist of the World, a lot of people say that.
Almost forgot, republicans are going to gather for a "thoughts and prayers" session on your behalf, for you to get back on your feet. You cannot imagine how effective "thoughts and prayers" are...No one can, actually.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,975 posts)Well, I could, but it would quickly evolve into a rant, and no one wants that. I can represent it symbolically, though. This much. ----->
CaptainTruth
(7,547 posts)kimbutgar
(24,844 posts)He believed lies from a known conman and destroyed his life.
BigDemVoter
(4,614 posts)you sad sack of $hit!
thought crime
(145 posts)Ol Janx Spirit
(128 posts)...get to see FElon crying about the loss of his fortune one day while still never criticizing the person most responsible for the loss....
LudwigPastorius
(12,197 posts)A thousand a week doesn't buy much rock.
Orrex
(65,018 posts)dlilafae
(146 posts)pillows, Mikey...😄😂
Zambero
(9,829 posts)Oh yeah, "Tears On My Pillow"!!
Hekate
(97,244 posts)Hekate
(97,244 posts)Hekate
(97,244 posts)MadMike47
(145 posts)poor Mike would be in the Poor House.
Lemon Lyman
(1,485 posts)This guy, giuliani, jones...none of them have $$ to pay their fines, yet they're all still rich. They always cry broke, but they still live large. They're all very wealthy. They'll never be broke.
People like favre don't have to pay all of the $$ they owe (or the interest on that $$). The press secretary has a bunch of outstanding loans/debt on her campaign funds, but she never has to pay it back despite being wealthy. How many cities & vendors does shitler still owe?
Why do rich people not have to pay their bills? Can those of us who aren't rich just not pay our bills?
Mr. Ected
(9,691 posts)Quit yer whining, dude. You sound..."woke".
11 Bravo
(24,098 posts)ShazzieB
(20,217 posts)Look at how many stores quit carrying his products a while back. When that happened, I figured it was just a matter of time before he was forced to go out of business. From this, it sounds like he's still trying to stay in business, but looking at his company's website, it's on very shaky ground. The main page is full of "closeout" sales on all kinds of merchandise and looks cheesy as hell!
A smarter guy might have been able to figure out how to protect some of his assets, but I don't think Lindell is smart at all. If he was, he'd have filed for bankruptcy by now. Instead he's complaining about how no one will lend him any money. (Of course no one will lend you money, doofus, they know there's no way you'll ever be able to pay them off! And you shouldn't be trying to borrow anyway. The last thing you need is more debt! )
I suppose it's possible he could be faking, but I doubt it. He's nothing but a dumb cluck who got lucky huckstering an overpriced product that a lot of people were willing to buy. He got really rich really fast, and instead of managing his newfound prosperity wisely, he threw all his eggs in Trump's basket and proceeded to piss away money like a drunken sailor trying to "prove" the unprovable Big Lie, that Democrats rigged the 2020 election and "stole" it from Trump.
So yeah, I believe he probably is broke, because he's a stupid idiot who made a whole bunch of terrible decisions. That can happen when someone who's not too bright gets rich quick and thinks he's on top of the world and can do anything he wants. Throw in the Trumpian delusions, and it's very easy to see how he could now be in debt over his head with nothing to show for it except piles of merchandise he's trying to sell off for a fraction of its original price.
I'm sure the court will eventually be able to find out the true state of his finances, and if he's as broke as I think he is, the next step will be liquidating any assets he still has, the way they've been doing with Giuliani.
I actually feel kind of sorry for this mope. No, really! It's true that he brought all his troubles on himself, but he did it because he was stupid, and I think that's sad. I don't think he had any truly evil intentions when he hitched his wagon to Trump's star. He just fell for the hype, the same way a lot of other stupid people did. Stupid people can't help being stupid; they just are what they are, and it's a damned shame that a lying narcissistic jackhole like Trump can fool them into throwing away everything they have for his sake. I'm sure Lindell and Giuliani are just 2 of a long list of people whose lives he's ruined, and worst of all, he's nowhere near done yet.
IcyPeas
(23,455 posts)He's an ex-drug addict who got lucky selling pillows. Perhaps the drugs killed some brain cells. I always thought he wasn't all there. Trumps cronies know he's a lying sack of shit. But I think lindell really looked up to trump and believed him 110%. Gullible? Stupid? Star-struck? Mental Illness? I don't know. Whereas guiliani... fuck him... is (was) a lawyer... he knows damn well he's lying... zero sympathy for him. And his lies about the poll workers were evil and despicable.
Lindell has kids. I've wondered why his kids never intervened. I mean he was giving trump all his money. There went their inheritance.
He was was duped... used and abused by trump then spit out.
Brother Buzz
(38,302 posts)Canada Kid
(82 posts)For someone who is morally bankrupt...you might as well be equally financially bankrupt also! Stuff a pillow up your ass, and jam one over your face as well!
regnaD kciN
(26,965 posts)Martin68
(25,449 posts)Bluetus
(951 posts)Nonetheless, a court should not accept his claim without evidence. Make him submit his exact financial status under penalty of perjury (i.e. the jail term he should have had for trafficking illegal drugs). After all, he said he has $1000 a week coming in.Lots of people live on less than that.
everyonematters
(3,747 posts)Everyone needs to think and question for themselves. I think he honestly believed all of the stupid stuff he was disseminating.
ProfessorGAC
(72,297 posts)Nit the "broke" part, but the $300 million a year part.
That company had 2 years of revenue over $120 million. $126 & $152 million.
That was just before his craziness got retailer's to drop his products.
They had 4 of 17 years with revenue over $100 million.
And, all while sitting on a MOUNTAIN of debt. (D/E of over 5, before he went nuts.)
I did a deep dive into his company about 4 years ago, which is a lot of work when it's a private company. But, enough digging turns over enough stones to connect the dots.
He was never a business titan; he was never uber rich. That's why I believe the "broke" part.
But, he lied even while begging for mercy.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,419 posts)Especially when the election was held under the Presidential authority of Democrats.
How was it that instead.....in the swing states, the odd readings of Trump getting the only vote on a card, way way more than any average of any other non swing state?
After Trump "won", (which I now believe he did not), suddenly Lindell has no use anymore to Trump and co. The machines turned 'good" overnight. Maybe God did it. Maybe Musk. Either way his whole argument of voting machine companies all being part of some global woke conspiracy has gone up in dust. And that's all he had.
Bengus81
(8,689 posts)All is good Mike!
Blue Owl
(55,906 posts)SWBTATTReg
(25,167 posts)Hassler
(4,235 posts)totodeinhere
(13,598 posts)His website is alive and well and still selling pillows. And he is back on Fox News according to news reports. Fox had dropped his commercials but now they are back on.
Native
(7,057 posts)BHDem53
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JoseBalow
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lonely bird
(2,242 posts)Fuck all the way off to Fuckoffistan.
Marcuse
(8,299 posts)
Ive got a billionaire now.-
BigmanPigman
(52,862 posts)Thank you DU!!!! You keep me laughing (through tears).