Newsmax anchor storms off set when MyPillow CEO voices election conspiracies
Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, went on Newsmax to talk about being banned from Twitter. Instead, he repeated unsubstantiated voter fraud claims. Watch how this Newsmax anchor reacts.
Posted: Feb 4, 2021 4:20 PM
Updated: Feb 4, 2021 4:20 PM
Posted By: By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business
Newsmax anchor Bob Sellers repeatedly tried to cut off MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in an interview Tuesday after the Trump-supporting executive spread election fraud falsehoods on air. That s a particularly touchy topic for the conservative news channel, because it was named in a lawsuit claiming it spread misinformation about voting machines.
“Litigation regarding these issues,” they stated, “is imminent.”
Newsmax invites Mike Lindell, who advocated for a coup and spews dangerous conspiracy theories, on air. It didn t go well. pic.twitter.com/6xzSgXlHua
In the Newsmax interview, Sellers and anchor
Heather Childers who was on a separate screen asked Lindell about being permanently suspended from Twitter. He began to voice further fraud claims.
“You’re talking about machines that we at Newsmax have not been able to verify … any of those kinds of allegations,” Sellers said. “We just want to let people know that there’s nothing substantive with what we’ve seen.”
Mike Lindell and his recent, roller-coaster ride of an appearance on Newsmax.
The MyPillow CEO gave an interview to
Bob Sellers on Tuesday, though it was an instant trainwreck since Lindell repeatedly pushed conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems, and Sellers literally walked off the set as Lindell resisted his fact-checking.
Whoopi Goldberg rolled footage of the chaos for her colleagues on Wednesday, which drew plenty of laughter from her and
Meghan McCain.
“It’s so good!” McCain chuckled. She continued to say “Dominion is not messing around right now” since the company is threatening defamation lawsuits against those who continue to slander them with conspiracy theories.
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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell joined the conservative network Newsmax on Tuesday afternoon for a train wreck of an interview that ought to go down as one of the defining video clips of this bizarre era of American politics.
Lindell, whose personal and corporate Twitter accounts were recently banned because he won’t stop spreading lies about the 2020 election being stolen from former President Donald Trump, ostensibly went on Newsmax to rail against “cancel culture.” But his appearance immediately went off the rails as he started spreading lies about election fraud tied to voting hardware made by Dominion Voting Systems.