MyPillow founder booted from Republican conference in Nashville after vowing to confront governors on election fraud

Mike Lindell, famed as the rare man who could combine politics and pillows profitably, was kicked out of a Republican conference, just hours after he promised to confront officials about 2020 election fraud claims.

The MyPillow founder was booted from a Republican Governors’ Association event in Nashville on Tuesday night, despite being friendly with many of the attendees and insisting he was invited.

“These events are for [Republican Governors’ Association] members, and Mike Lindell is not currently an RGA member,” an anonymous source told Politico on Tuesday, after the political pillow purveyor attempted to collect his credentials at the Nashville gathering.

Lindell had apparently been attempting to attend the event dinner at the Tennessee Governor’s Mansion, accessed via private transportation, the RGA official told Politico.

While it may not have been technically true that Lindell was not a governor, Republican or otherwise, aspiring governors and retired governors - as well as their friends and family, political commenters, and other figures on the Right - regularly show up at such events. Lindell has attended previous RGA events and has even been encouraged to run by fellow attendees, including former president Donald Trump himself.

Commentator Todd Starnes confirmed on Twitter that Lindell’s VIP credentials and attendance pass had been revoked.

Lindell told the Washington Post he was given the boot because of his plans for the night, which included confronting Governors Brian Kemp of Georgia and Doug Ducey of Arizona concerning alleged 2020 voter fraud in their states. Lindell made his intentions clear earlier in the day on former Trump campaign chief Steve Bannon’s radio show.

Neither had come out on his side concerning voter fraud, which Lindell was certain was the cause of Trump’s apparent failure to hold the White House in November.

After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, Arizona's Maricopa County is conducting a third recount including a hand count of the vote, an expensive process whose funding and integrity have both been challenged.

Georgia, too, underwent several recounts across the state, unearthing several hundred votes in favor of Trump but not turning up enough to change the results, according to local elections executives, at least.

Neither state went to Trump in November, leading Lindell to speculate on the theory that they had been victims of a sophisticated voter fraud system devised by Dominion Voting Systems that was capable of switching votes for one candidate to votes for the other — a hypothesis he has not let up on for months.

Lindell was even sued for defamation by Dominion, which demanded he cough up $1.3 billion — only for the MyPillow founder to file a countersuit for $1.6 billion, arguing it was an effort to silence his free speech. 

Lindell continues to insist Trump will be back, declaring in a March interview that “Donald Trump will be back in office in August” and hinting he has “massive” evidence of voter fraud from the 2020 election. 

In an apparent effort to buttress his importance and prove he had been invited to the gathering, Lindell shared with Politico a screenshot of an RGA calendar event, including files titled “Nashville Agenda.pdf” and “RGA - Nashville meeting” as well as a schedule for the conference marked “confidential.”

Lindell apparently announced upon learning he was not welcome at the conference that he would be departing that night instead of staying the whole three days.

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