Mike Lindell has been order to pay a man $5 million after the man won his challenge related to the 2020 election.
Lindell had put forth data that he said proved China interfered with the 2020 election and offered $5 million to anyone who could disprove it.
A man did and Lindell apparently didn’t want to pay him:
DAILY CALLER – An arbitration group on Wednesday ordered MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s firm to pay $5 million to a Nevada man after Lindell made a 2021 offer in the same amount to anyone who could prove his election fraud claims wrong.
Lindell made the offer in a 2021 challenge called “Prove Mike Wrong.” Lindell claimed he had data showing the Chinese government interfered in the 2020 election, and offered a $5 million prize to anyone who could prove him incorrect. He said the data were “packet captures” that showed China undeniably interfered in the election, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
The “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge rules instructed participants to prove the data provided “does NOT reflect information related to the November 2020 election,” according to the April 19 arbitration ruling obtained by The Post. Lindell presented the data at a symposium in North Dakota in August 2021. Participants were provided PDFs and “text files,” among other file formats, the ruling shows.
Software developer Robert Zeidman of Nevada analyzed the data and found it did not line up with Lindell’s claims, according to The Post. After Lindell’s company allegedly refused to pay the prize, Zeidman took the matter to arbitrators.
Members of the not-for-profit American Arbitration Association ruled Zeidman had indeed disproved Lindell’s election fraud claim, and that Lindell was obliged to pay him the $5 million within 30 days. Zeidman “proved the data Lindell LLC provided, and represented reflected information from the November 2020 election, unequivocally did not reflect November 2020 election data,” according to the ruling.
I don’t know whether Lindell just didn’t agree that Zeidman had disproved his assertions about the data or if Lindell knew he was wrong and regretted that he had even made the challenge and didn’t want to pay him.
Whatever the case, it appears Zeidman did win and now Lindell is gonna have to pay up big time.
I guess Lindell will think twice before he does something like this again.