“If Trump is saying August, that is probably because he heard me say it publicly,” Mike Lindell, the founder of MyPillow, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

After New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted that Donald Trump has been telling close associates that he believes he’ll be reinstated to the presidency in August, Lindell is taking credit for putting the fallacious idea in Trump’s head.

For the record:  President Joe Biden is the lawful President of the United States.  There is no provision for a sitting president to be ousted absent an Senate guilty verdict in an impeachment.  And there is no Constitutional method for a former president to be “reinstated” after being voted out of office and losing the Electoral College by a so-call “landslide” or any other way.

Trump reportedly has been telling people for the last two weeks that he expects to be reinstated by August.  He’s said a lot of “highly respected” people have told him to expect it, though he did not name who these “highly respected” people.

“The month of August, for this, is subjective,” Lindell said in a Daily Beast interview. “It is my hope that Donald Trump is reinstated, after all the proof comes out, by the end of August, but I don’t know if it’ll be that month, specifically. I started saying August…about four weeks ago. That was my estimation. I spoke about it with my lawyers who said that they should have something ready for us to bring before the U.S. Supreme Court by July. So, in my mind, I hope that means that we could have Donald Trump back in the White House by August. That’s how I landed on August, and I’m hopeful that that is correct.”