A very unhinged rant from President Donald Trump disciple and campaign adviser “MyPillow Guy” Mike Lindell made the rounds on Twitter Saturday night time. Lindell insisted folks will “go to prison” as a result of Georgia voters picked Joe Biden.
“How do you not put people in prison?” Lindell requested in an interview at Trump’s Georgia rally Saturday night time. “They will be going to prison,” he added, referring to the Georgia outcomes giving a victory to Biden.
Lindell, identified for his starring roles in MyPillow ads for the corporate he based, laid out his — and Trump’s — plan to grab the Georgia election from voters. It’s the identical primary plan the president rolled out in a telephone name to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp earlier Saturday. (Kemp defined to the president that he doesn’t have the ability to overturn an election in a democracy).
Then they might seize the complete election, Lindell vowed. He was a bit fuzzy on particulars, although.
“We have to get this governor … Brian Kemp has to give an order to have a Congress meeting, whatever they do, their legislators, and pull Georgia down and don’t give it to Biden,” Lindell shouted. “It doesn’t matter who they give it to; don’t give it to Biden and find out all your corruption.”
He added: “If you pull down Georgia, Pennsylvania and crooked Nevada, now nobody has 270 [electoral] votes, and on December 14 it goes to the [Electoral College] vote and Donald Trump wins the election!”
“Wow! I love your passion and your motivation,” responded the best wing interviewer.
There has been completely no proof of election corruption anyplace within the nation. That’s why votes are being licensed by states and a number of lawsuits difficult the outcomes have been tossed out of the courts.
Lindell isn’t any stranger to tall tales, nevertheless. The bedding firm CEO earlier this 12 months urged Trump to take unproven plant extract oleandrin for COVID-19, insisting it’s “100% effective.” There’s completely no public information that oleandrin, an extract from the toxic oleander plant, has ever been tested in humans or animals towards COVID-19. Lindell is an investor in an organization that manufactures what some have known as the “snake oil.”
Once Twitter followers bought over their issues about what they characterised as a “fascist coup” plot, they quite loved the meltdown.
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