Mike Lindell drains nearly half his campaign cash to buy copies of his own book

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

February 13, 2026 10:17PM ET


MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is promoting his bid for Minnesota governor by handing out copies of his autobiography – and paying for them with thousands of dollars in campaign funds. According to The Daily Beast, Lindell has spent roughly $187,000 of the $356,000 he raised during the first two weeks of his campaign on bulk purchases of his book, “What are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO.”

Lindell announced his gubernatorial run in December after being encouraged by President Donald Trump, who refers to him as “the pillow guy.” “When we’re going around to all the places in Minnesota, other people are giving a flyer,” Lindell told the Minnesota Reformer. “I’m giving them the whole book so they know who I am.”

Lindell, a prominent 2020 election denier who has accused Satan of interfering in the vote, has spent millions promoting conspiracy theories about election fraud, according to the Daily Beast report. In June, he was ordered to pay $2.3 million in damages for defaming a former Dominion Voting Systems employee and has said he is millions of dollars in debt, the outlet added.

“I can’t self-fund. I don’t have any money left,” Lindell previously acknowledged. Instead, his campaign has relied on donor contributions to purchase copies of his $19.97 book, which recounts his recovery from crack addiction to embrace evangelical Christianity.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-2675268902/

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Keep forgetting he is running for governor of MN.

[Swede]

1. He's a garbage human being.

Anyone that pals around with Trump, is.

[bluestarone]

2. They burned books during hitlers reign, that was bullshit, BUT

I'm 100% for these books burning!!

[House of Roberts]

3. He's laundering campaign cash into his own pocket.

depends on how much of each book's price he gets, but it is laundering.

[niyad]

5. Yes, exactly.

[myohmy2]

4. another...

...fearless leader/Republican clone making money...

...buy your own product with some else's cash...

...okay...

[Wonder Why]

6. So what we have is this:

They get people to donate money so they can launder the money to give him income from campaign expenses.

His book was done as a “a raw, authentic account by a man many thought would never rise above his serial, addiction-fueled failures.” but he has sunk far below those days. So the "many" were right.

He said “I’m giving them the whole book so they know who I am.” They know what you are, Mike. A grifter, liar, one who falsely accused even Satan and a lowlife who has gone from being a crack addict at the bottom of the barrel to someone whom even the barrel couldn't stomach.

But the MAGAts will vote for him because, to them, anyone is better than a human being as a governor.

I think I got the summary of his life right!

[SunSeeker]

7. His whole campaign is a grift. nt

[Lemon Lyman]

8. -

I thought he was bankrupt 18 bankruptcies ago(?)

How many times do rich people get to go bramkrupt before they're actually out of money?

[Hey Joe]

9. Glad he's off the hard drugs

Too bad about the permanent brain damage though.
Oh well, nobody was going to buy that book anyway.

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. Yup, his brain is Swiss cheese

I have a brother like that. Found God, gave up drugs and is still a self-centered asshole.

[tulipsandroses]

10. The bigger story is that there are people who actually gave their money in order to elect this nut

Unbelievable that anyone thinks this man should be elected.

[ChicagoTeamster]

11. Lindell's campaign is a scam. He's broke after all the money he was swindled out of with his 2020 election fraud hunts

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Con Artists saw the moron a mile away and offered hexadecimal gobblety goop that they claimed was router data proving data was altered by Chinese satellites and Mikey held a three-day "Cyber Symposium" in Sioux Falls, S.D. and actual IT professionals in attendance told him that what he was displaying was garbage that proved nothing. Mikey was claiming to have the proof of election data being sent by satellite to computers in China and involved a compuetr company owned by the then already dead Hugo Chavez.

Also, Trump never repaid him for events he held (Trump stiffs everybody) and his pillow sales tanked so he's really really broke.

[Blue Owl]

12. The MyPedo CEO

[nuxvomica]

13. I looked at his book page on Amazon

The book originally had a holographic cover so that it would be like Mike was in the room with you. But only the non-holographic version is available now, "For Correctional Facility Shipping ONLY". Under "Products related to this item" is a laminated quick-study guide to the DSM-5-TR, which is "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders 5-TR". That seems appropriate.

I was trying to see whether it was self-published and the page count to roughly calculate how much it's costing him per copy when he's buying them up with campaign funds. The publisher is "Lindell Publishing" so probably self-published but no page count listed. It costs me around $4 per copy for author sales of my book so figure that may be what it's costing him, in which case he bought around 46,000 copies. If he is doing a retail buy, that would be about 13,000 copies and he's making a couple dollars profit on each. He must be doing a retail buy because he can't possibly have the space to store 46K books.

[twodogsbarking]

14. The votes for MN Governor's November 3, 2026 election have been counted and Mike is the winner

by a margin that no one has ever seen. Trump counted the votes and don't bring up election fraud. He knows more about it than anyone.

[twodogsbarking]

15. There used to be 'freak shows" at county fairs. Now every day is one.

[generalbetrayus]

16. I can't wait until he and RFK Jr dance off into the sunset together, holding hands and never being heard from again.

[OldBaldy1701E]

17. He is such a joke. (n/t)

[bluestarone]

18. Looking like this is more a GO_FUNDME than

a Governors race!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

19. The candidate lineup for the MNGOP is as LAME as it gets.

It is my guess that NONE of them will make it. The one who does, will lose in November.

No Republican in Minnesota has a chance of winning State or Federal races given what Donnie is doing to make sure we all suffer. Except for Duluth area, the Twin Cities and suburbs, and Rochester, Minnesota is rural. Farmers here are struggling big time! Minnesota has become more DIVERSE in population than when I moved here 50 years ago.

Tom Emmer looks secure enough in the 6th CD, but the rest of the Republican field in Congress are on shaky ground if they continue to stick up for TACO.