Mike Lindell ordered $5 million to be paid to Trump voter who determined data My Pillow CEO used to push fraud theories was not from 2020 election
- Mike Lindell was ordered to pay $5 million to a software developer who found a dataset he said was 2020 election data.
- Robert Zeidman, a Trump voter, was awarded the amount by an arbitration panel on Wednesday
- He had signed up for the “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge” and discovered that Lindell’s data, according to the CEO of My Pillow, had proven that election fraud was largely nonsensical
Mike Lindell was ordered to pay $5 million to a software developer who determined that MyPillow CEO data provided to experts was unrelated to the 2020 presidential election.
That reports CNN Thursday that an arbitration panel awarded Robert Zeidman – who voted for former President Donald Trump – a $5 million payout on Wednesday after he sued Lindell for the millions promised as part of a “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge.”
Lindell is one of the most outspoken proponents of the conspiracy theory that widespread electoral fraud robbed Trump of a second term.
The founder of MyPillow had distributed a dataset that he claimed turned out to be election interference.
Lindell hosted a 2021 “cyber symposium” in Sioux Falls, South Dakota to allow experts to examine the data and launched the “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge,” promising a $5 million payout to anyone who could prove the data was not from the 2020 presidential election. election.
Zeidman signed and agreed to the terms of the contract.
Mike Lindell was ordered to pay $5 million to a software developer who determined that MyPillow CEO data provided to experts was unrelated to the 2020 presidential election
Lindell is one of the most outspoken proponents of the conspiracy theory that Trump has been stripped of a second term due to widespread electoral fraud.
He found that the data was unrelated to the 2020 election, as Lindell had claimed.
But then Lindell’s company, Lindell Management, refused to pay him.
The contest did not require contestants to rebut election interference. Thus, it was the task of the participants to prove that the data presented to them was not valid data from the November 2020 elections,” the arbitration panel wrote.
The panel was not asked to decide whether China interfered in the 2020 election. Nor was the panel asked to decide whether Lindell LLC had records proving such interference, or even whether Lindell LLC had election records,” the decision continued. “The focus of the decision is on the 11 files provided to Mr. Zeidman under the Contest Rules.”
Zeidman told The Washington Post he was “very happy” with the panel’s decision.
“They clearly saw this as I did — that the data we got at the symposium was not at all what Mr. Lindell said it was.”
“The truth is finally out,” Zeidman added.
Lindell texted The Post saying, “They’ve made a horribly wrong decision! This is going to court!’
Zeidman’s attorney, Brian Glasser, told the newspaper the panel’s decision should serve as a warning to those who allege wild election fraud.
“I think the arbitrators felt it was important that these claims be vetted because they have done great damage to our country,” Glasser told The Post.
It’s unclear whether Lindell will be able to pay Zeidman, as he told longtime Trump political strategist Steve Bannon that his company has taken out $10 million in loans to fend off defamation lawsuits related to election fraud.
Earlier this week, another major electoral fraud defamation case — with Dominion Voting Systems suing Fox News — was settled for $787.5 million ahead of a scheduled trial in Wilmington, Delaware.