It was reported earlier today that Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser to President Donald Trump, has confronted MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell over the fact that judges, appointed by the 45th President of the United States, have ruled against him in the lawsuits he has brought in regards to the 2020 presidential election.
The CEO has been engaged in battle with Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic over his belief that the 2020 election has improprieties, none of which have been proven, MSN reported.
“It’s fascinating to me that so far…it has been Trump judges, mainly Trump-appointed judges, that have been telling—you know, ruling—that across the board on all these, that these cases go forward,” Bannon said to Lindell when he interviewed him on Wednesday during his War Room podcast. “Is that not the case?”
Lindell said that Bannon was correct. “Well, that is true that they’ve ruled to go forward.”
In August, Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee to the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, ruled that a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion against Lindell could move forward. Dominion also sued former Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, who previously served as the mayor of New York City.
Lindell, Powell and Giuliani have all been key promoters of the conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was “stolen” in favor of Biden. Although Trump and his allies—including Bannon—continue to promote the groundless allegation, no evidence has been brought forward to substantiate the claim.
Dozens of election challenge lawsuits filed by the former president and his supporters were dismissed in state and federal courts. Even judges appointed by Trump and other Republicans rejected the legal challenges. Meanwhile, audits and recounts across the country—including in areas where the election was overseen by pro-Trump Republicans—have reaffirmed Biden’s victory.
Even former Attorney General William Barr, who was widely seen as one of Trump’s most loyal Cabinet members, said last December that there was “no evidence” of fraud that would change the election’s outcome. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security made the same assessment, describing the last presidential election as the “most secure in American history.” The federal agency was led by a Trump appointee when it released that statement.
The CEO still believes he can bring his case with attorney generals from various states to the Supreme Court to challenge the 2020 presidential election.
