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"I Got Bad News For You": Mike Lindell Speaks Out After FBI Seizes Phone

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mypillows-mike-lindell-speaks-out-after-fbi-seizes-phone_4732268.html

MyPillow’s Mike Lindell Speaks Out After FBI Seizes Phone

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was picking up food at a fast food chain
drive-through when three cars driven by federal agents blocked him.

It was Sept. 13 afternoon in Mankato, Minnesota. Lindell and a friend
were halfway back from a duck hunting trip in Iowa.

As one car pulled up perpendicularly in front of his car, a second
pulled up alongside; and a third then appeared from behind,
sandwiching Lindell’s car in the middle.

Lindell stuck his head out of the car window. “Who are you guys?” he asked.

The agents identified themselves as the FBI. “We just wanted to talk
to you,” they said, Lindell recounted in an interview with The Epoch
Times.

The FBI, he said, targeted him over the voter fraud allegations he has
voiced, and later seized his cell phone despite his vocal protests.

In what might have lasted between half an hour and 45 minutes,
Lindell’s food ran cold and his ice cream malt melted as the FBI
agents questioned his proof to back up the election fraud allegations.
Among other lines of questioning were Lindell’s ties to Colorado Mesa
County clerk Tina Peters, the local election overseer he met at a
cyber symposium he hosted last August. Peters has faced charges
related to a breach of security protocols for her county’s voting
systems, to which she pleaded not guilty last week.

They asked him about his meeting with Ohio math teacher Douglas Frank,
who also believes the 2020 presidential election results were
manipulated, and about Lindell’s frequent air travel.

“Well, I got bad news for you: we are going to take your cell phone,”
Lindell remembered the agents saying.

“No you are not, I’d rather be arrested, you are not going to get my
phone,” he replied. Since he doesn’t have a computer, he said his
phone was an essential device that he leans on to run his five
businesses.

“They want people to be scared to talk to Mike Lindell,” Lindell, who
relented and handed over his phone after consulting his lawyer, told
The Epoch Times on Wednesday.

“You might get your phone taken at a drive-through restaurant, you
might get your door bashed in by the FBI,” he said, noting the string
of FBI subpoenas for allies of former President Donald Trump reported
in recent weeks.

While Lindell initially thought the FBI was interested in him as part
of the House probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, the agents told him
they had two separate cases in which he is named.

The search warrant the FBI handed him authorized the seizure of an
extensive list of information on Lindell’s phone, some of which
appeared to be related to the tampering of the Dominion voting
machines since Nov. 1, 2020, including information relating to the
“damage to any Dominion computerized voting system” or” attempt to
impair the integrity or availability” of the system.

The warrant described Peters, Lindell, Frank, and several other
individuals as “co-conspirators,” citing violations of three federal
offenses: 18 U.S.C. §§ 1028(a)(7) identity theft, 1030(a)(5)(A)
intentional damage to a protected computer, and 371 conspiracy to
commit identity theft and/or to cause intentional damage to a
protected computer.

The FBI turned down Lindell’s request to back up his phone. “That was
something that really upset me,” he said, adding that his last phone
backup was from a couple of weeks earlier.

But the recent FBI actions, he said, won’t dissuade him from his
advocacy efforts.

“The government weaponized the FBI, trying to scare me, trying to
scare other people, but it didn’t change a thing,” he said. “This is
Gestapo in Nazi Germany. This is what we’re up against.”

“It didn’t rattle me,” he added. “I’m not going to unsee what I’ve seen.”

Regarding his phone, Lindell is confident that the FBI will realize
“there’s nothing in here.”

“I do all things by calls, I rarely text, and I never email,” he said.
“So whatever they’re looking for, they’re going to be on a wild goose
chase.”

Lindell’s lawyer is working to get his client’s phone back, and
meanwhile, Lindell says he has already moved on.

“I’m not even thinking about that. I’m thinking of what I have to do
tomorrow, the next day, and the next day,” he said. “I have three huge
speeches this week: One in Omaha, Nebraska, one in Idaho, and then
with the President, our real president, in Ohio,” he said, referring
to Trump. The phone confiscation, he said, has given him the
opportunity to tell people that without election integrity, “We lose
our country.”

FBI spokesperson Vikki Migoya confirmed that “the FBI was at that
location executing a search warrant authorized by a federal judge” but
wouldn’t comment on specifics regarding the case.

An FBI review “does not necessarily result in the opening of a full
investigation,” Migoya told The Epoch Times.