From the top of the article, we come to discover that the MyPillow person is asking us all to foot his legal bill:

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell doesn’t seem to be so confident in his election conspiracies these days.

The floundering businessman took to Steve Bannon’s podcast on Monday to push his latest theory that the U.S. needs to outlaw electronic voting machines. The current suit, led by failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, is being underwritten by the pillow salesman. After admitting the effort is a total longshot and his evidence did not “shock the world,” as he had promised, Lindell decided to ask supporters if they could foot his legal bill.

The article closes with these further challenges that this MyPillow individual has had to face:

The former millionaire spent months using every platform at his disposal to seed conspiracy theories following the 2020 presidential election, including against Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, claiming the electronic voting companies were complicit in a scheme to keep Donald Trump from retaking the White House. That, however, cost Lindell $5 million, and put him on the line in a $1.3 billion defamation suit brought by Dominion, in which he’s being sued not just for spreading the lies but also attempting to profit off of it. Lindell, of course, has a plan for that—he’s going to use the Supreme Court to defend himself with his new crowdfunded legal fund.

“But Steve, all this evidence, this new evidence is gonna be used far and wide,” he told the far-right host. “There’s cases out there, as you know, Mike Lindell and MyPillow getting sued for billions of dollars.”

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    9 months ago

    Yes, so it’s a bad article, deserving of a downvote. I am now less likely to click on future newrepublic articles because that one wasted my time.

    I wanted the spectacle of my enemy shouting or in tears or being incoherent. Not “mouthing off on a podcast”. That happens every day.

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      9 months ago

      I think “loses it” here refers to stretching his ridiculous conspiracy theory into loony-ville.

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      9 months ago

      This was a terrible, terrible article. Was it originally written in another language and then translated? It’s so bad!