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Lindell confirmed in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday that he’s out of money and said he understands his lawyers are people who need to make a living.

Attorney Andrew Parker wrote in documents filed in federal court on Thursday that his firm and a second firm representing MyPillow in lawsuits by Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems can’t afford what it would cost to represent Lindell and MyPillow through the rest of the litigation. Continuing to defend him would put the firms “in serious financial risk,” he wrote.

It’s the latest in a string of legal and financial setbacks for Lindell, who propagates former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, in part by rigged voting machine systems. Several big-box retailers, including Walmart, have discontinued his products.

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[–] krayj@sh.itjust.works 208 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Bullshit. He's not 'out of money'...he's 'out of the money he's willing to part with'. Big difference.

They need to find his secret stashes of cash and make sure it goes to the people he owes.

[–] clif@lemmy.world 99 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] Gruntyfish@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's always money in the pillow stand.

[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago

It's a Lumpy pillow Michael, how much could it possibly cost? $79.98?

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His pillows are shit, they're fucking terrible.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably due to being filled with money

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You would think governments would print more comfortable bills

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[–] OctopusKurwa@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

For crack ?

[–] spider@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago

He's not 'out of money'…he's 'out of the money he's willing to part with'.

...or out of the money that hasn't been offshored.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 119 points 1 year ago (6 children)

He's lying. Rich people don't ever go broke.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This implies he was ever actually rich in the first place. For people like this it was a con from the start, built of lies and debt.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I dunno, I think he sold a heck of a lot of lumpy jesus pillows. If he didn't decide to start lying about the election he probably would have lived a very comfortable life.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Had Trump never gotten the stupid idea to run—which was what put him under the microscope—in the first place, everyone, from the top down, would have been fine and could have kept their respective grifts going well into the lich-esque ages they’d have inevitably reached because these scumbags live for-fucking-ever.

Part of me is glad they’re being brought into the light like the cockroaches they are so they can [potentially] face justice, but another part of me thinks that whatever victory the American citizens gain in this will be a pyrrhic one (metaphorically), and we’d have been better off had we never heard of any of them from the outset.

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what's so hilarious to me, he's his own worst enemy. It's like with covid, if he had sat back and sold overpriced masks to the rubes while taking advice from those smarter than him he would have fucking SAILED into re-election. Same with the women he defamed (her name is eluding me at the moment). Almost immediately after the trial ended he did it again and she sued again. He just can't shut the fuck up and keep his enormously inflated ego out of the mix.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

He’s basically Yogurt from Spaceballs in his craven self-promotion, so it’s utterly wild to me that he didn’t go for such an obvious ~grift~ merchandising opportunity; but I guess if any such opportunity could indirectly help anyone on his shit list—which comprises 99% of the American people—he’d rather miss out.

[–] charliespider@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he probably would have lived a very comfortable life.

Not if he was using one of his pillows

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

A recovering addict hopefully knows better than to go lie on his own supply.

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a difference between selling pillows and selling pillows profitably.
Some people (morons) suck at business and can't turn a profit with any amount of revenue.

[–] MetalJewSolid@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

That and his seeming drug addiction

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. There’s a big difference between “you can’t prove I have any money” and “I’m living in my car”.

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's not that rich. He was worth like $40 million at his height, he's being sued by dominion for $1.2 billion, and I think there's a second similiar lawsuit in the works. He's fucked.

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol imagine getting sued for 1.2 billion... like fuck, my great great great grandchildren still wouldn't have that paid off

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Rich people don’t ever go broke.

Their bones can.

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 6 points 1 year ago

My money's on an incoming fundraiser or emergency batch of pillows for extra money to support "the cause."

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[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 102 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Easy.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To be fair, he did manage to build himself up from rock bottom.

[–] CassowaryTom@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago

True that. He is an attention whore and a cultist. He also has more business savvy than most.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why do the rich have a very different definition of "out of money"? To us pesents, out of money means being homeless on the streets and going off of food stamps. A fate I wish he ended up in, and what he should end up in.

[–] rthmchgs@lemmynsfw.com 48 points 1 year ago

This seems like capitalism at work.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I won’t believe it until the Audi he’s driving in the photo is replaced with a Ford Tempo that he’s borrowing from his roommate at the flophouse he has to live in, scraping by by selling junk through an MLM scheme because that’s what’s most apropos for him, the boot-licking Paul Bearer-ass-looking motherfucker

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[–] pseudorandom@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A year from now there will be an article about how he and Giuliani sucking each other off in a Dennys parking lot after both have lost everything.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Them being "out of money" is really "nah I feel like just not paying". They have different rules for them. They still have millions in the bank. Must be hard with only that much.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Bingo. They're broke minus material holdings in gross excess of the general public and all the assets they've hidden.

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[–] ech@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

"Oh no! I'm out of money! Guess you'll have to stop suing me" *shrug*

[–] s20@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago
[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

The definition of "cancel culture" has been spread so thin by conservatives that this guy thinks that throwing away all his money into a volcano of easily proven lies is "getting cancelled"

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I'm out of money says the guy wearing a $5000 suit and a gold ring while driving an Audi.

[–] Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's obvious this guy fried his brian on drugs and religion.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the life.

This is the Life of Brian.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Seems convenient.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

In spanish thats pronounced "Adios motherfucker"

[–] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Tickle my pickle and I'll give ya a nickel... just ask uncle Donny for some paper

[–] riskable@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Consequence culture claims another victim. Go woke or go broke!

[–] bappity@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

this is fantastic news!

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds like he's going to owe more legal bills.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.

Oh wait, Trump exists.

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh no, anyway

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