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We Have Not Lived A Good Enough Life To Watch Mike Lindell Represent Himself Pro Se In Those Defamation Cases

But if the universe should send us this holy blessing ...

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Last week, Mike Lindell announced that he’d made the courageous decision to stiff his lawyers for millions of dollars of work. The pillow pumping impresario would save his empire by leaving his lawyers with a a gaping hole in their balance sheet. For Jesus!

His longtime law firm Parker Daniels Kibort promptly moved to withdraw from the defamation cases brought by Dominion Voting Systems, its competitor Smartmatic, and Eric Coomer, a former Dominion employee whom Lindell publicly accused of masterminding the stolen election. They did not withdraw from a lawsuit seeking to weasel out of a binding arbitration order in the “Prove Mike Wrong” contest, in which Lindell offered $5 million to anyone who could debunk his supposed “proof” of fraud in the 2020 election. This week, they moved to vacate the order on the theory that the arbitrators were just wrong, so … make of that one what you will.

In any event, Mike Lindell don’t need no stinkin’ lawyers.  He’ll march right into court and tell those jurors what’s what! In a Frank Speech broadcast flagged by the indefatigable weirdo watchers at Meidas Touch, Lindell explained to his trusty sidekick Brannon Howse that he has been contacted by many lawyers who support his righteous cause. Whether those lawyers are competent to take on the sharks from Clare Locke and Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan and Aronoff is perhaps another story.

In any event, Lindell is perfectly willing to represent himself pro se.

“As far as myself, if I have to go in there by myself and go before those twelve jurors and say, ‘Um, hullo jurors! No, I did not — this was not a big marketing plan to make money,'” he said, before breaking into a staccato chuckle at the defamation allegations pending against him in federal courts in DC, Colorado, and Minnesota.

“Bran, I thought I was at least a kind of an okay marketer,” he scoffed, adding, “You’d think if this was a plan to make money, maybe a guy would stop after a month or two, huh?”

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You would think that, yes! But you would think that a man who built a thriving empire based on overpriced chunks of polyfoam would know better than to offer up a pile of digital gobbledygook and promise $5 million to anyone who could prove that it wasn’t election data.

But fear not, patriots! Vengeance is mine, sayeth Mike Lindell.

“When this is all over, all these people that run these big machine companies and that did this to individuals and to our country, they should be put in prison just for the lawfare alone.”

Good luck, Pillow Man! And as a legal blogger, may I just say of your plan to represent yourself and your company pro se in these cases, JUST DO IT AND BE LEGENDS!

Mike Lindell: I Will Represent Myself in Dominion Trial! [Meidas Touch]

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Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics and appears on the Opening Arguments podcast.

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