In a dispute over data that Mike Lindell believes shows that China meddled in the U.S. 2020 elections and tilted the vote to Joe Biden, an arbitration tribunal has ordered MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to pay $5 million to a software programmer for breach of contract.
Mike Lindell, the founder of MyPillow
Lindell, though, stated to The Associated Press on Thursday that he has no intention of making payment and anticipates taking the matter to court.
As part of the “Cyber Symposium” he organised in South Falls, South Dakota, in August 2021, Mike Lindell , a strong proponent of the myth that voting machines were rigged to steal the 2020 presidential election, launched his “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge” to further his views. Through one of his businesses, Mike Lindell offered a $5 million bounty to anyone who could demonstrate that the “packet captures” and other information he made public there were not accurate data “from the November 2020 election.”
The challenge was brought by Robert Zeidman, who submitted a 15-page analysis concluding that the Mike Lindell data did not “contain packet data of any kind and do not contain any information related to the November 2020 election.” Zeidman was not selected as the contest winner by the panel of judges, which also included a Lindell lawyer. So in accordance with the contest regulations, Zeidman moved for arbitration.
The three arbitrators ruled on Wednesday that Lindell must pay Zeidman $5 million following an evidence hearing in Minneapolis in January.
“He proved the data Lindell LLC provided, and represented reflected information from the November 2020 election, unequivocally did not reflect November 2020 election data,” concluded the arbitrators. Zeidman is entitled to compensation since there was a contract violation that prevented payment of the $5 million award.
Lindell was mandated by the arbitrators to make good within 30 days.
“They clearly saw this as I did—that the data we were given at the symposium was not at all what Mike Lindell said it was,” Zeidman said in a statement on Thursday. The truth has at last come to light.
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Brian Glasser, an attorney for Zeidman, stated that the arbitrators’ decision was “another important moment in the ongoing proof that the 2020 election was legal and valid,” and that Mike Lindell assertions regarding the veracity of his data had been “definitively disproved.”
The accusation of Chinese meddling in the 2020 elections was refuted by Mike Lindell, who said that he planned to provide further information in the upcoming weeks or months to support his prior statements.
“It’s going to end up in court,” said Mike Lindell. I won’t be making any payments. He provided no proof.
Dominion Voting Systems has previously sued Mike Lindell for defamation in the amount of $1.3 billion, alleging that Lindell wrongly accused the business of manipulating the 2020 presidential election. He is also the subject of a second defamation action in Minnesota brought by Smartmatic, a different manufacturer of voting machines.
It’s odd, according to Lindell, that the arbitrators reached their decision the day after Dominion reached a nearly $800 million settlement in its defamation case against Fox News. He said that everything was done to persuade him to give up his fight against computerised voting machines.