Daily Beast: “In the final week of his presidency, Donald Trump met in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon with Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO and a personal friend of the president’s who presented Trump with six pages of documents, loaded with unproven conspiracy theories, that he told him proved that China and other countries helped steal the 2020 election for Joe Biden. Lindell says that after a ‘five-to-ten minute meeting’ in the Oval, Trump asked someone to take the MyPillow inventor to a different room to show his documents to ‘the lawyers,’ and then asked for staff to bring Lindell back afterwards. Following a roughly two-hour wait, according to Lindell, he finally met with White House attorneys who dismissed his claims but said they would ‘look into it.’ He was then not allowed to see the president again on Friday. The Daily Beast could not confirm with other sources if the people Lindell met with were attorneys or other White House staff.”

“In the brief meeting, Lindell, a staunch Trump ally (who has also been a major financial backer of several legal efforts and rallies to try to nullify the 2020 election outcome) told the president, ‘Mr. President, this is real, you really won by at least 10 million votes.’ Lindell said Trump replied by saying, ‘Well, yeah, we all know there was fraud, Mike.’ Then, Lindell added, ‘He was upset to hear that this was happening to all the people who backed him for all these four years. He said, ‘Can you believe how they’re treating us out there?’’ Asked about other things the president told him during the meeting, Lindell simply described the rest of the conversation as mostly ‘generic.'”