Mike Lindell set August 13 as the date in his bonkers theory that Trump will be reinstated as president
Mia Jankowicz
Jul 6, 2021, 5:53 AM
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said he believed former President Donald Trump would take the impossible step of being reinstated as president on August 13.
Speaking to Brannon Howse on the conservative WVW Broadcast Network on Sunday, Lindell said that by that date Trump's reinstatement would "be the talk of the world."
"Donald Trump won," he claimed. "I mean, it's pretty simple, OK?"
There is no legal path for Trump to be reinstated, as Insider's Jake Lahut and Grace Panetta reported.
The Twitter account PatriotTakes, which monitors right-wing media, on Monday shared a clip of Lindell's appearance:
"The morning of August 13 it'll be the talk of the world, going, 'Hurry up! Let's get this election pulled down, let's right the right, let's get these communists out, you know, that have taken over,'" Lindell said.
He also suggested that election results for "down-ticket senators" would change on August 13.
Lindell has been a leading voice in the conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was subject to widespread voter fraud. He's produced documentaries, appeared at rallies, and even created a social-media platform devoted to a pro-Trump perspective.
Through these mediums he has argued that he has assembled a legal case so compelling that Supreme Court justices would have to overturn the election.
Lindell first floated the idea that Trump would be back by August in an appearance on Steve Bannon's "War Room: Pandemic" podcast in March, though he did not specify a date.
The idea of Trump's reinstatement has been influential among conspiracy-theory-minded Trump followers such as the lawyer Sidney Powell, and even Trump himself: The New York Times' Maggie Haberman said in June that Trump had told contacts that he expected to be reinstated by August.
Multiple court cases launched by Trump and his supporters claiming that there was widespread election fraud have failed.
Lindell is the subject of a multibillion-dollar defamation suit filed in February by Dominion Voting Systems, a voting-technology company central to Lindell's conspiracy theories. Lindell countersued, citing the First Amendment.
Mia Jankowicz
Jul 6, 2021, 5:53 AM
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
- MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell claimed that Trump would be back in the White House by August 13.
- It's the first time he's put a specific date to the groundless theory.
- The 2020 election, which Biden won, will be "pulled down" and the "communists" routed, Lindell said.
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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said he believed former President Donald Trump would take the impossible step of being reinstated as president on August 13.
Speaking to Brannon Howse on the conservative WVW Broadcast Network on Sunday, Lindell said that by that date Trump's reinstatement would "be the talk of the world."
"Donald Trump won," he claimed. "I mean, it's pretty simple, OK?"
There is no legal path for Trump to be reinstated, as Insider's Jake Lahut and Grace Panetta reported.
The Twitter account PatriotTakes, which monitors right-wing media, on Monday shared a clip of Lindell's appearance:
"The morning of August 13 it'll be the talk of the world, going, 'Hurry up! Let's get this election pulled down, let's right the right, let's get these communists out, you know, that have taken over,'" Lindell said.
He also suggested that election results for "down-ticket senators" would change on August 13.
Lindell has been a leading voice in the conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was subject to widespread voter fraud. He's produced documentaries, appeared at rallies, and even created a social-media platform devoted to a pro-Trump perspective.
Through these mediums he has argued that he has assembled a legal case so compelling that Supreme Court justices would have to overturn the election.
Lindell first floated the idea that Trump would be back by August in an appearance on Steve Bannon's "War Room: Pandemic" podcast in March, though he did not specify a date.
The idea of Trump's reinstatement has been influential among conspiracy-theory-minded Trump followers such as the lawyer Sidney Powell, and even Trump himself: The New York Times' Maggie Haberman said in June that Trump had told contacts that he expected to be reinstated by August.
Multiple court cases launched by Trump and his supporters claiming that there was widespread election fraud have failed.
Lindell is the subject of a multibillion-dollar defamation suit filed in February by Dominion Voting Systems, a voting-technology company central to Lindell's conspiracy theories. Lindell countersued, citing the First Amendment.
...just woke up. Trump been reinstated yet?...oh ok. Guess the pillow salesman was wrong 
