'I was the media's darling': Mike Lindell tells Lara Trump about his downfall

In a new interview with Lara Trump, MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell discussed his professional downward spiral as he has became more known for his election denialism than his pillows.

Lindell began the discussion with the story of his drug addiction in the 1990s and early 2000s, which he ultimately managed to overcome as he was growing his pillow company with religion and his own drug dealers "cutting him off."

"You've been at the bottom, Mike, and you've been at the top, and I'll tell you, I feel like when people rise up and they're at the top, you know, top of their game, and they're outspoken in a way that maybe the mainstream media doesn't like, that maybe folks on the left don't like, Hollywood doesn't like, you become a target and they try to basically ruin you ... at what point though do you think you became a target to the left?"

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"The first one was, I was the media's darling around the country before 2016 ... I was the American Dream on steroids, right?" said Lindell. "And I went out, this is on August 15th of 2016, I got invited by our great real president, Donald Trump, to come out and see him at Trump Tower," at which point Lindell knew, despite never having voted before, that Trump was "going to be awesome" — only to receive backlash when he did a press release praising Trump.

Lindell went on after 2020 to become one of the loudest proponents that the election was stolen, holding a "cyber symposium" and making an ill fated bid to lobby the Supreme Court to throw out the election results. As this happened, he began to be dropped from retail stores and suffered severe business losses, as well as defamation lawsuits from election companies.

Ultimately, Lindell has even fallen out with Fox News, which he has increasingly attacked as they have become resistant to interviewing him amid their own legal fallout from pushing election conspiracy theories.

Watch the full interview below or at the link right here.