CEO of MyPillow Mike Lindell is in the rally at west steps of Colorado State Capitol building in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, April 5, 2022.
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Mike Lindell had his phone seized by FBI agents seeking evidence of tampering with Dominion voting machines.
In a video posted to Facebook, Lindell explained how the search warrant was served outside a Hardee’s restaurant.
The warrant includes authorization to seize records related to damaging, theft, or misappropriation of Dominion machines.
During a Facebook broadcast on Tuesday night, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell claimed the FBI had been “weaponized” against him when they executed a lawful search warrant to seize his phone.
According to a copy of a subpoena uploaded by Lindell, his cell phone was taken by federal agents Tuesday as part of a warrant seeking records related to the “authorization or lack of authorization to damage or modify any Dominion computerized voting system.” The investigation was also related to “any attempted misappropriation, theft, conversion, transfer, or exfiltration of any proprietary hardware, software or other data” related to the voting machines.
“They want to know about Dominion and Mesa County in Colorado,” Lindell told Insider, referencing the ongoing investigation into Mesa County clerk Tina Peters, a pro-Trump Colorado election official accused of facilitating an election data leak.
Lindell has been heavily linked to Peters, with the latter having been accused this April of accepting a private plane ride from the pillow CEO. Lindell also told Insider he’s been helping to pay off Peters’ legal fees, with some funds coming from his “personal money” redirected through a fundraising platform called the Lindell Legal Offense Fund.
Four federal agents, he said, “cornered” him outside a Hardee’s restaurant and indicated they had no intention of arresting the businessman.
“‘We just want your phone,'” Lindell recalled the agents saying.
Lindell also recounted during a broadcast on Tuesday how he protested against the seizure of his phone by agents.
“I go: ‘No. My whole company — I run five companies off that, I don’t have a computer,'” Lindell said. “My hearing aids run off this! Everything runs off my phone!”
The Colorado District Attorney’s office did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
“If they had arrested me, you could’ve come and visited me in jail! We could’ve done a story!” Lindell told Insider reporter Cheryl Teh.
Lindell continues to be highly involved in pushing former President Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud. In June, he told Insider he tried to secure a spot to publicly testify before the House panel investigating the Capitol riot but said the panel didn’t want to talk to him.
Lindell is also bankrolling a nationwide effort to stop the use of electronic voting machines. He is also embroiled in a $1.3 billion lawsuit filed against him by the voting-technology company Dominion and a suit filed by the voting-systems company Smartmatic.