Remember Mike Lindell, the conspiracy-selling amateur somnologist who dabbles in election meddling? On top of his failing mutilated foam business, Lindell’s amassing court judgments against him like he was a Republican candidate for national office, and on Wednesday, it just got worse.
A federal court in Minnesota ordered Lindell to pay computer programmer Robert Zeidman $5 million Zeidman won for debunking Lindell’s claims that data allegedly from voting machines Lindell had proved election interference. With more than four decades of programming experience, Zeidman handily debunked Lindell’s claim that foreign hackers altered the results by demonstrating that Lindell’s data set was literal junk: it was just sets of figures with no logic or reason.
Unfortunately for Lindell, he attempted to “put his money where his mouth was,” and during an August 2021 “cyber symposium” in South Dakota, Lindell offered a $5 million bounty for anyone who could disprove his claims. Zeidman did just that, as a court confirmed last April. Lindell, however, never paid the money, forcing Zeidman to go back to court to get this statement from the order: “Plaintiff is awarded $5 million plus post-judgment interest beginning April 19, 2023, to be paid within 30 days of issuance of this Order, per the Arbitration Award. LET JUDGMENT BE ENTERRED ACCORDINGLY.” [emphasis in the original]