Mike Lindell’s MyPillow company is facing eviction from a Minnesota warehouse owed $217,000 in back rent, according to a suburban Minneapolis eviction court.
The linens CEO found himself embroiled in litigation following three years of breathless — and meritless — efforts to show Donald Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election.
According to the Star Tribune, a Scott County judge on Tuesday said she plans to honor a Shakopee landlord’s request to have the property turned over after several default notices were sent to Lindell’s company dating back to last year.
“At this point there’s a representation that no further payment is going to be made under this lease, so we’d like to go ahead with finding a new tenant,” an attorney representing the warehouse owner said in court.
No one from MyPillow attended the Tuesday hearing.
Lindell’s legal costs would appear to be mounting as he faces a $1.3 million defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems, whose election machines he falsely blamed for swaying the election in President Joe Biden’s favor.
Last April, a judge ordered the 62-year-old pillow magnate to pay $5 million to a Nevada software engineer who accepted Lindell’s challenge to debunk one of his election conspiracy theories, which the tech expert did. A federal judge affirmed that arbitration award in February.
In January, Lindell claimed that Fox News inexplicably “canceled’ MyPillow when they stopped running his once-ubiquitous ads. The conspiracy-pushing cable channel told The Associated Press it would gladly resume working with Lindell once he caught up on his bills.
Three months earlier, a legal team representing the eccentric businessman asked a judge for permission to drop him as a client because he owed millions of dollars in unpaid bills. He admitted at the time that “there’s no money left to pay them.”
Lindell told The Associated Press that MyPillow has a second warehouse in Shakopee and the one he’s likely being pushed out of soon isn’t due to economic hardship.
“We’re fine,” he said of the company’s finances.
The MAGA-loyal entrepreneur said his company doesn’t need the warehouse it’s about to lose and hasn’t used it in months. According to Lindell, the property’s landlord has other plans for the storage facility. He admitted he experienced a cash flow issue last year, but said that’s been resolved.
