The launch of pre-Trump pillow magnate Mike Lindell’s social media site with ‘a lot of volunteer speech’ is not going as planned, as the MyPillow CEO repeatedly dealt with prank callers during his kick-off of Monday for Frank Speech.
And at one point, Lindell thought his hero, Donald Trump, had called in to wish him well, just to be a joke, asking the pillow seller to – in a slightly unintended comedy – use his phone. fumbles as he complains ‘They are attacking us.’
Lindell, who is currently facing a $ 1.3 billion defamation lawsuit from the voting software company Dominion for inciting election lies, has started using Twitter and other social media platforms to violate the policy of collecting disinformation. In response, Lindell announced that it would launch its own website.
However, the new platform got off to a stormy start. The Trump-reinforced pillow seller had to change its original name after receiving a legal threat. And while the site is supposed to be ‘freedom of speech’, users cannot use blasphemy or God’s name in vain. And while the site is primarily based on the ability to lie freely about the election or other buttons, Lindell has stated that “out-and-out” lies are prohibited.
While the launch date of Frank Speech was scheduled for April 19 at 09:00 ET, the platform was not available from Monday morning. Lindell during a live-streaming website that also featured former Trump officials Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon – both providers of the ‘Big Lie’ that the 2020 election is ‘knee-jerk’ – Lindell said registration for “Frank” was interrupted because they “had the biggest attack in history for a website.”
Eventually, Lindell started taking calls on his cell phone, and it would appear that some crutch callers through whom the phone line was looking had come through.
With his phone on the speaker, the MyPillow man took one call he thought of a Wall Street Journal reporter, just for the caller to start telling a clearly fabricated story about a colleague who died from a drug overdose, which suddenly left Lindell hanging.
“It’s a joke call. This is a joke call. Lindell shouted. ‘Do you see everyone? Do you see them all? It was an attack there. ”
And then, a while later, the screener broke into the broadcast to tell Lindell – who generated many of the pro-Trump legal efforts to overthrow the election – that they were ‘news’ that Trump was on the corridor was and ready was patched.
“Hello everyone,” played a recording of Trump, who asked an excited Lindell to roar that they had the “real president” on the air.
“Hello, Mr. President,” a radiant Lindell continued, only for the joker to immediately reveal himself with a series of expressions.
A frustrated Lindell hastily cut off the call, claiming it was evidence that he had been attacked, while also proving that an ominous’ they ‘were breaking into our phones.’
Like many of his other recent allegations, Lindell provided no evidence behind the allegation.