MyPillow Faces Eviction From Its Minnesota Warehouse After CEO Mike Lindell Says He Was ‘Canceled’ By Fox News

MyPillow is facing a court-ordered eviction from a warehouse in Minnesota, but the company’s controversial CEO, Mike Lindell, insisted that they are still doing well financially.

The news comes after the CEO claimed he had been “canceled” by Fox News. Lindell gained national prominence for supporting former President Donald Trump‘s false claims of a “rigged” election.

Lindell argued that this eviction is just a formality related to a mutual agreement between himself and the warehouse’s owner to vacate this property, which he stated was last used by MyPillow in spring 2023.

He said that MyPillow subleased the space to a candy company in 2023 and had planned on subleasing it to a sugar beet company this year. However, the sugar beet company reneged on the contract at the last minute, he claimed, which left the MyPillow CEO and the warehouse owner “stranded.”

Lindell stated that he thought about finding someone else to sublease the property, but he and the owner, First Industrial, ultimately chose to formally end their contract through the eviction process.

“And I said that’s fine,” Lindell ABC News.

Court records state that MyPillow owes the owner of the warehouse $217,489 in past-due rent.

“Plaintiff seeks to have Defendant evicted from the Premises for failing to pay Rent and other payments and charges due under the Lease Agreement in the amount of Two Hundred Seventeen Thousand, Four Hundred Eighty-Nine and 74/100 Dollars,” a complaint from First Industrial stated.

Lindell faces a financial squeeze from many directions. He is named in a billion-dollar defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

In a ruling made in February, a federal judge confirmed that the prominent right-wing conspiracy theorist must pay $5 million to the winner of a contest he organized during one of his “cyber symposium” events following the 2020 election.

During the event that Lindell hosted, participants had been invited to participate in a “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge, which gave them a chance to win $5 million if they could demonstrate that the data he presented about the 2020 election was not genuine election data. The rules of the contest stated that participants could use arbitration if necessary.

Robert Zeidman, a software developer, accepted this challenge and submitted a comprehensive 15-page report proving that the data presented by the CEO had no connection with the elections and did not display any fraud, which was confirmed by a federal court decision on February 21.

Zeidman eventually succeeded in the arbitration process.

Despite Lindell hoping that a federal judge would overturn the $5 million award granted to Zeidman, Judge John Tunheim of the U.S. District Court in Minnesota refused to do so and noted that the panel faced a difficult task to interpret such a poorly drafted contract.

Judge Tunheim then affirmed that no evidence suggested that the panel exceeded its authority.

Lindell once again said on March 28 that he is going to appeal this decision and that this case will “go into next year.”

Lindell also said that he spent over $45 million of his own money on claims regarding the security of voting machines as well as his push for the use of paper ballots during the 2024 election.

Back on January 12, the MyPillow CEO claimed on former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon‘s podcast, War Room that Fox News “canceled” his company after it stopped airing his company’s TV advertisements.

The CEO’s claims were denied by Fox, which confirmed that the commercials were removed due to nonpayment.