When a jurisdiction wants to prosecute bagged torn foam magnate and Trump Conspiracy Director Mike Lindell, they should just hire Mike Lindell.
According to KUSA NBC 9 News in Denver, Lindell has again put himself in hot water, this time by bragging that he gave embattled Colorado county clerk Tina Peters $800,000 to use for her legal defense in court cases about a data breach she essentially admitted to at Lindell’s “symposium” on the hacking of the 2020 election, held last August.
“I just put all the money in myself,” Lindell said of Peters’ legal defense fund. “I don’t know, I probably put in three, four, five, maybe 800,000 [dollars] of my own money.” Lindell then went on to say that he covered all the expenses for Peters to travel to South Dakota to attend the August event.
The problem? No elected official or public employee can take a gift of over $65 from anyone other than a family member or longtime friend. So now Peters is not just facing a state criminal trial and a federal investigation into election tampering; she’s also facing a state ethics investigation.