Ah, the sideshow that precedes a Trump rally. In his typical fashion, Trump coup supporter and shredded foam pitchman Mike Lindell claims–of course without evidence–that the FBI illegally tracked him in order to serve him with a warrant to seize his cell phone while he was waiting for his Frisco Angus Burger or whatever stroke-inducing concoction he ordered from Hardee’s in mid-September:
“It was like one-o’cl– no, it was like 11:30 in the morning,” Lindell starts before the interviewer asks how the FBI knew were he was or if they were following him. “No, we have no idea. No, we pulled into a Hardee’s– Well, how did they know? They tracked me illegally, with a tracking device or my phone. We don’t know yet. We’re trying to fi– get to the bottom of that.”
So to recap: the FBI was poised to serve a warrant on Lindell, literally physically within sight of Lindell to give him the warrant and to seize the specified property. So instead of understanding that the FBI has processes in place to make sure they know where and when the target is to serve the warrant–using such low-tech ways like surveillance–Lindell baselessly claims the FBI “illegally” had a tracker on his car or his phone that he and his crack (-smoking) legal team haven’t been able to locate.
Incidentally, the venue for Trump’s rally–the Macomb County Community College Sports and Events Center–is about the size of the gymnasium in a large high school. It has a maximum seating capacity of 3,500 people, meaning it would be roughly double that for people standing, but given the configuration of the venue show in this photo, it looks like it would hold only around 4,000.