MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell threatened to go "door-to-door" begging for money to file an appeal after a judge ruled that he and his company defamed voting machine manufacturer Smartmatic.
In a ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan found that Lindell defamed Smartmatic 51 times with claims that the 2020 presidential election had been rigged.
Lindell addressed the ruling in a Tuesday broadcast on his Lindell TV channel.
"This was the biggie. This was the $1.5 billion [lawsuit] against MyPillow and Mike Lindell," he explained. "What this means, everybody, is if this, if I don't appeal this, this would go to the jury trial, I don't know, year, two years for now, but they're saying, if I don't appeal, it's saying, yep, I'm guilty because I didn't appeal. And all the jury would then would decide, did Mike do this maliciously, and how much money I would owe."
"This is going to get appealed. I don't have the funds to do it," he continued. "Now we have 22 more days to raise this money for this appeal... I believe it's going to cost like $300,000. I'm sitting here without 300 cents, but I'll tell you what, this will get appealed."
"I don't care if I have to go door-to-door to raise the money."
Lindell, a supporter of President Donald Trump, claimed that the ruling was a plot "to distract me from getting rid of these machines."
