MyPillow thrown out of warehouses for back-rent

SHAKOPEE, Minn. – The once-flourishing MyPillow enterprise, headed by the publicity-loving and free-spending Trump conspiratorialist Mike Lindell, has been ordered to get out of two massive warehouses. The eviction order was signed by Clark County Judge Caroline Lennon. The reason: $200,000 in overdue rent. Neither Lindell nor an attorney was at the eviction hearing to object. A MyPillow plant remains in nearby Chaska but with little product being shipped. About the eviction for back-rent in Shakopee, Lindell said in an interview that he had had a subleasor lined up but the deal fell through. He had raised cash by auctioning off forklifts and other warehouse Equipment.

Financial ruination

Lindell’s financial status depends on which day you ask. Sometimes he has the bravado of yore. But recently on Fox News he told an interviewer he was down to his last $10,000 and a pickup truck. This all is a comedown from Lindell’s energetic albeit overstated late-night advertising claims on cable networks that his pillows, stuffed with styrofoam pellets, guaranteed better sleep. Lindell’s final ruin began with his exuberant support of Donald Trump. Lindell claimed that the 2020 election was rigged against Trump. As a result he was sued for millions by voting machine companies for libel. Recently in another setback Lindell was ordered by a judge to pay a $5 million bet he lost over a reckless television claim that one of his Trump conspiracy theories couldn’t be disproved. Legal expenses have been drowning. His attorneys have gone unpaid and quit. Meanwhile, MyPillow sales are tanked: Walmart, Kohl’s, J.C. Penney, Wayfair, Bed Bath & Beyond and other retailers dropped the MyPillow line amid Lindell’s fervant antics for Trump, including claims that the 2020 looting of the U.S. Capitol was a hoax.