MINNEAPOLIS — An arbitration panel ordered Minnesota pillow marketer Mike Lindell to pay $5 million he promised to anyone who could disprove his claim that China rigged the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump. A software engineer examined Lindell’s data and found it phony – and asked for the $5 million. Lindell wouldn’t cough it up. The software engineer, Robert Zeidman, asked for arbitration and prevailed. Lindell has 30 days to write the check. Ironically, Zeidman was a Trump supporter and was just curious about Lindell’s supporting data. In August 2021 Lindell had produced what he called the “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge” in a rally on his own online network from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He offered to share “packet captures” and binary and other data. Zeidman entered the challenge. In a 15-page report he concluded that Lindell did not “contain packet data of any kind and had nothing related to the 2020 election. In other words: All gibberish.
Zeidman. A software engineer from Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Three-member arbitration panel: “Mr. Zeidman proved the data Lindell,LLC, provided and represented reflected information from the November 2020 election, unequivocally did not reflect November 2020 election data. Failure to pay Mr. Zeidman the $5 million prize was a breach of the contract, entitling him to recover.”
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Zeidman about arbitrators: “They clearly saw this as I did — that the data we were given at the symposium was not at all what Mr. Lindell said it was. The truth is finally out there.”
Pending egal actions
Lindell is already the subject of a $1.3 billion libel suite filed by Dominion Voting Systems in that claims he falsely accused the company of rigging the 2020 presidential election. Lindell also the target of a separate defamation lawsuit by Smartmatic. another voting machine company
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