MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is pleading that he's in the poorhouse and soliciting for charity to help him pay his mounting legal bills.
On Wednesday, the bedroom accessory tycoon and 2020 election denier is fending off defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies.
"That's what it's all going for, not for anything else," Lindell said on the eponymous streaming platform Lindell-TV, urging viewers to essentially dig in their pockets and sofas for even $5 a month to support the Lindell Offense Fund, Newsweek reported.
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Lindell told the outlet that he intends to put all of his focus and energy to "secure our elections" while stressing the importance of preserving hand-counted ballots over electronic voting machines.
He also expected to put the funds to use in his bid to help bankroll Shasta County's suit against the state of California after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that places limits on a local government's capacity to count ballots.
His public appeal for cash comes off of the decision by his legal team seeking to quit the chief executive client, claiming they are owed millions of dollars in unpaid bills and expenses in his fight to defend defamation lawsuits filed against him by Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems.
Both companies are taking Lindell to task for attempting to impugn their reputations as he paraded around contesting the 2020 presidential election as rigged against ex-president Donald Trump.
Attorney Andrew Parker wrote in documents filed in federal court on last week that continuing to defend Lindell would put the attorneys “in serious financial risk".
"We've lost everything, every dime," Lindell said last week. "All of it is gone."
In the recent past, Lindell has made the claim that his MyPillow company has blown through $100 million after he began his election fraud odyssey, according to WCCO.
His company, Lindell LLC, was also ordered to pay $5 million after losing an arbitration case in April related to election fraud accusations.
