'Say good night': MAGA ex-MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's primary loss prompts online glee

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'Say good night': MAGA ex-MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's primary loss prompts online glee
FILE PHOTO: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell gestures as he attends a campaign event of former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Mason City, Iowa, U.S. January 5, 2024. REUTERS/Rachel Mummey/File Photo

MAGA former MyPillow CEO and election denier Mike Lindell lost his bid to become the governor of Minnesota, per reports.

According to projections by NBC News and CBS News, Lindell lost to state lawmaker Lisa Demuth, who won with more than 44 percent of the vote. However, she'll face what's expected to be an uphill battle against Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

The result was an upset. Lindell had been leading in limited public polling heading into Election Day and carried an endorsement from President Donald Trump, according to reporting by NBC News.

However, online commentators didn't seem very upset by his loss. Lindell entered the race in December and stepped down as the MyPillow CEO this month to focus on his campaign. He built his political profile by spreading false claims that Trump won the 2020 election. A federal judge ruled last year that he defamed Smartmatic by falsely claiming its voting machines helped rig that election.

"Say good night, My Pillow guy!" wrote political commentator and former Obama White House adviser David Axelrod in a post on X. "Despite @realDonaldTrump's endorsement, Lindell loses his @GOP race for governor of Minnesota."

"He was doomed in the general against Klobuchar," wrote Democratic political strategist Mike Nellis. "But Mike Lindell falling short in Minnesota is a HUGE embarrassment to Trump after his endorsement. He looks more and more like a lame duck every single day."

"Poor Mike Lindell," joked political consultant Norman Ornstein. "He won't sleep well tonight. It could be because he lost the Republican primary for governor in Minnesota despite being endorsed by Trump. Or, more likely, it's because of his pillow."

"Apparently Minnesota Republicans have gotten tired of nominating losers," wrote radio show host Matt Forney. "Amnesty Mike Lindell got trounced and that waterbrained psycho Royce White came in a distant third in the Senate primary."

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Trump ditched cabinet secretaries as 'sacrificial lambs' on decoy plane: NYT

President Donald Trump left his cabinet secretaries and top advisers on a plane threatened by Iran while he moved to safety, The New York Times reported.

Air Force One was targeted by Iran as he left a NATO summit in Turkey, but reports are surfacing that Trump switched planes by hiding in a catering cart. However, the latest reporting by The Times reveals Trump also ditched Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and traveling press, who were "kept in the dark."

Two anonymous officials told Times reporter Maggie Haberman that Stephen Miller, Trump's top domestic policy adviser, and Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, were also left on the threatened decoy plane. Trump meanwhile left Ankara, Turkey, aboard a C-32A military jet.

According to Haberman's reporting, Rubio knew about the threat from Iran and that he was traveling on a plane that had been targeted for an attack. However, it's unclear if other top White House officials knew about the threat too.

The anonymous officials who spoke with Haberman said that at least some of the White House staff who also left on the endangered plane were unaware of the threat.

A White House spokesman didn't respond to a request from The Times for comment about the discussion to decide who would be left on the threatened plane and who would be whisked to safety with Trump.

The New York Times's reporting did, however, include a comment from Andrew Marlowe, the Hollywood screenwriter of the 1997 Harrison Ford thriller "Air Force One."

Marlowe told The Times that even though the Secret Service was trying to keep Trump safe, the optics of the reporting that has been coming out don't make him look good.

"Now real life isn't a movie, but given the circumstances, I'm not sure I could ever script a moment like that for a heroic main character," Marlowe said. "If the threat were that great, it's hard to imagine the audience rooting for any character who would trade his own safety by treating the remaining civilians onboard as potential sacrificial lambs, especially without their informed consent."

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'It's so unbelievable': Lawyer floored as Trump DOJ seeks to revive case without evidence

A lawyer who stood up to the Department of Justice and won in a high-profile case expressed shock when talking about it being revived.

During an appearance on CNN on Tuesday night, lawyer Norm Eisen spoke about the possibility of President Donald Trump's DOJ bringing back the case against Olympic canoer David Hearn, who was accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool. The case was dismissed last week, as the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, led by Jeanine Pirro, said that the damage happened during installation.

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins asked Eisen about the possibility of the Trump DOJ bringing the case back, despite Pirro saying that the evidence pointed to a botched installation by the Interior Department, not Hearn, who constantly denied allegations that he ripped up the pool's liner.

"If there are charges brought against him again, I mean, would you use Jeanine Pirro's filing to fight those charges?" Collins asked. "Wouldn't that be the word of the DOJ versus the DOJ?"

Eisen laughed, agreeing with the absurdity. "It's so unbelievable," Eisen said. "They said in that filing that there was no evidence beyond a reasonable doubt because the damage was caused by a botched and rushed installation."

If the DOJ follows through, "The very first thing that the judge, if charges are brought again, is the words of the U.S. attorney's office blaming the Department of the Interior," Eisen said.

Eisen brought up that he used to work as President Barack Obama's special counsel and recalled a memo that said, "The president could not interfere with or intervene in enforcement cases precisely to avoid this kind of thing."

He continued, "So the outrageousness of it, it won't stand in a court of law if it comes back, and I assume the reason we read about it today in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere is because people in the DOJ are as horrified as I am."

'He's your guy!' CNN panel erupts as strategists trade barbs over scandalous candidates

A CNN panel erupted into heated arguing and shouting after they brought up where to draw the line on certain candidates.

While talking about primary races across the country, Republican political strategist Shermichael Singleton called out the position of Francesca Hong, a Democratic candidate running for governor in Wisconsin, when Democratic political strategist Karen Finney shot back at him by bringing up Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), the congressman facing allegations of domestic abuse while fighting for re-election.

Hong has recently been faced with backlash over old social media posts and comments, including one where she called for an end to Thanksgiving. Singleton went after Hong by saying that she was trying to fundamentally change the country.

"It's one thing to not like certain policy positions on the right," Singleton said. "We're not saying let's fundamentally change everything that people love about this country."

Finney then objected to Singleton's point, saying, "All right, all right," to bring Singleton to a stop.

"You're digging in a bit much here," she said. But Singleton immediately took issue with the characterization and shot back, "No, I don't think so. I'm not talking about mainstream Democratic candidates. I'm talking about the extremists."

As he was defending himself, Finney pointed out that Republicans are being represented by Miller in Ohio. Miller has stayed in his race for re-election despite calls from his party to drop out as well as condemnations from his ex-father-in-law, Bernie Moreno. GOP leaders like President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson have notably avoided stating that he should drop out, and Miller has even compared himself to Trump while defending his decision to stay in the race.

Finney invoked that background during her debate with Singleton. She asked him, "Should we go back and talk about everybody's tweets? Should we talk about Max Miller?" and then said, "He's your guy!"

"Is he my guy? Have I endorsed him?" Singleton responded.

"He's your party," Finney responded.

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