MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell appeared on Newsmax Tuesday afternoon for an interview about being kicked off Twitter. What followed, to paraphrase the tagline for Lindell’s company, cannot be advertised as the “most comfortable” interview you’ll ever watch.

Lindell, a self-made entrepreneur who has managed to position himself as a surrogate for former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overthrow the results of the election, hijacked the interview on the upstart conservative network to push his debunked conspiracy theories about the Dominion voting machines used in a number of states. Asked Tuesday about Twitter canceling his account, he began his answer:

“Well, first mine was taken down because we have all the election problem with these Dominion machines, we have 100 percent proof and then I, when they took it down—”

He was interrupted by Newsmax host Bob Sellers, who appeared to be reading from a prepared statement disavowing Lindell’s claims.

“Mike? Mike? Mike, thank you very much. Mike, Mike, you’re talking about machines that we at Newsmax have not been able to verify any of those kinds of allegations,” Sellers said as Lindell continued to make his case. “We just want to let people know that there’s nothing substantive that we’ve seen, and let me read you something there — while there [was] some clear evidence of some cases of vote fraud and election irregularities, the election results in every state were certified, and Newsmax accepts the results as legal and final. The courts have also supported that view.”

This is why you don't mix business with politics or religion

If by Dominion voting machines as in Diebold voting machines he is speaking of I have to agree, they are hard for a regular hacker to get control of but it's no problem at all for the people who actually run things.

I tell ya what though, Trump will run again in 4 years.

I'm guessing they still can't decide to bar that from happening ...

He's 77, I believe. The life expectancy for a healthy adult male at that age is 9-10 years. All indicators are that he's not healthy (diet, lifelong attitude towards exercise) but he does receive the best medical care possible. I'd probably be willing to bet $50 that he doesn't make it to the next election.

Mike Lindell and Trump's entourage of buffoons are morons. You can hedge what you say, pose questions, insinuate things, etc. and get away with it. That's the game that people play in politics. What you can't do is stray into libel & slander...or you get sued.

... in theory

Well, Lou Dobbs has lost his show: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/fox-business-cancels-lou-dobbs-smartmatic-lawsuit.html Though, of course, Fox claims that the lawsuit has nothing to do with it.

I saw that today after I'd made that comment ...
So, yeah; it's now "in practice" ...

You've got to love how the networks are taking such a hard line against any hint of election fraud in this case.

"Fox News has dropped ‘Lou Dobbs Tonight,’ promoter of Trump’s false election fraud claims"

Election shit has been pretty fucked since bush was installed in office. Distrust of the election process is one of the main reasons Trump won the first time.

Well, they're getting sued by the voting machine manufacturers for billions of dollars. It was all fun and games until financial liability was on the table.

Bush's election definitely hurt trust in elections. And the Democrats didn't do themselves any favors by continuing to peddle misinformation about Russia. Neera Tanden was continuing to say Russia stole the election years after Trump's election (complete with the implication that they actually changed votes, if I'm remembering correctly). Clinton, too, would peddle that bullshit when she wasn't too busy blaming Bernie or misogyny for her loss. If you spend 4 years peddling the line that Trump stole the election, you can't be surprised that people trust in elections declined.

Plus, there's the simple fact that the US electoral system is fucked. If someone presented you with the system of the electoral college, winner take-all systems of electors, elections where the majority vote may not win because of how electors have been weighted, election results that sometimes take states weeks to actually finalize, news networks declaring the election results on election night in spite of that, and on & on... would you trust it? On the face of it, it's completely insane. Every single peer nation of the US conducts elections better than we do. 

Well, now there's 2 major things we suck at ...
(... and counting!)