Mike Lindell Says MyPillow Facing 'Full-Blown Attack'

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has said his company is facing a "full-blown attack" as his struggling sleep-accessory firm faces battles on numerous fronts.

The Donald Trump-aligned businessman has been facing numerous legal and financial troubles since he made unfounded claims that former President Donald Trump won in 2020 and that companies providing voting machines conspired to rig the election.

In July 2022, a group of eight prominent Republicans including judges and lawyers reached the unequivocal conclusion that the 2020 presidential election was not stolen from Trump. A detailed report was released titled "Lost, Not Stolen: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election" and included a state-by-state debunking of popular election-fraud claims promoted by Trump and his allies.

Lindell is embroiled in defamation lawsuits filed by Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems, both of which argue their reputations were severely damaged by the MyPillow CEO's assertions. Lindell has also said that MyPillow is facing several Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audits.

On his channel The Lindell Report via conservative broadcast and video network FrankSpeech, Lindell spoke about the issues that MyPillow has been facing. The CEO, not referencing any particular issue he and his company is facing, said: "This has been a full blown attack on myself, MyPillow, they're trying to cancel us.

"I feel like we're in this major battle, which we are, but we're getting through it," Lindell added. "There's light at the end of these attacks, and we are going to win."

He also took aim at American Express for "taking away our credit line." Lindell previously said during an appearance on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast that the multinational financial services corporation reduced his credit line from $1 million to $100,000. He added at the time: "Out of the blue, they took our credit line from $1 million down to $100,000. [It] Just cripples MyPillow. No reason, no explanation."

An American Express spokesperson told Newsweek in September: "We can't comment on specific customer accounts or applications, but I can tell you that American Express does not make customer decisions based on personal views or political affiliations."

Continuing his speech, Lindell said, "we're here, we're not going anywhere," and referenced being canceled by shopping channels. "This is cancel culture, and we'll get through this and it's going to be amazing," he added.

Lindell had previously told the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper that MyPillow "lost $100 million from attacks by the box stores, the shopping networks, the shopping channels, all of them did cancel culture on us." Major retailers such as Kohl's and Bed Bath & Beyond stopped carrying MyPillow products in 2021, citing low customer demand, according to statements made to CNBC at the time.

To add to Lindell's ongoing troubles, he announced earlier this month that MyPillow is facing several IRS audits. Speaking on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast, Lindell described the audits as disgusting. He said the IRS is investigating earnings made by his call-center contract workers. Newsweek has been unable to verify Lindell's claims.

Lindell said earlier this month that he and his company have no money to pay the lawyers representing him in the defamation cases after his representatives notified federal judges that Lindell owed them millions of dollars in legal fees. Law firm Parker Daniels Kibort asked a federal judge to approve the firm's withdrawal in a motion filed earlier this month.

Lindell told Newsweek earlier this month: "We haven't been able to pay them [lawyers] for the past couple of months."

"These lawyers were courageous," Lindell said. "They took on a case where every other lawyer in this country are afraid to take on any case against the electronic voting machines and the evil that's out there. This was a great group of attorneys... and they need to get paid; and if there's no money to pay them, they can't keep going."

Newsweek has contacted MyPillow for comment via email.