Lindell’s Lawyers Just Quit, IRS Still In Hot Pursuit “I’ll Never Settle!”

Talk about a twisting turning road. The plot of Mike Lindell’s saga from crack head to successful businessman to impoverished conspiracy theorist has been quite the tale. He pledged his life, his fortune and what reputation he had, to prove that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election. If there was ever a fool’s gold kind of a mission, this was it. Today it all went up in smoke for Lindell. Click into the tweet below which will take you to the Media Matters link and listen to his incoherent babbling about “lawfare” his nemesis. His real nemesis seems to be lack of funds and guess what, Mikey? Lawyers don’t work for fun and for free. This is 7:11 long, not lucky numbers for Lindell, I’ll tell you what.

Lindell raves about an enemy called "lawfare" destroying him. https://t.co/TU8gmeavaF

— Ursula Faw (@ursulafaw56) October 5, 2023

Alright, class, now we’re going to play Decipher The Blather, which is similar to Connect The Dots. Here’s a transcript of the key points he just made.

MIKE LINDELL (MYPILLOW CEO): Ten minutes ago all the lawyers we have for MyPillow and myself in the lawsuits with the lawfare with Dominion and Smartmatic, they just filed in federal court that – to drop us as our attorneys and this comes from the lawfare, basically. And from the media. The attacks on MyPillow, what American Express did — just devastating our credit. We — I — can’t pay the lawyers. We can’t pay. There’s no money left over to pay them. 

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I don’t know where that leaves us, but I wanted to get out in front of it before the media is gonna attack again. 

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STEVE BANNON (HOST): Will this lead you to try to settle these? 

LINDELL: No. I will never settle anything, ever. I will never — they’ve done this to keep me quiet. I will never ever be quiet. I will never stop fighting no matter what, and I will never settle with the evil that’s out there. The corruption. And these guys what they have done to our country with these hiding, hiding what’s inside these machines.

BANNON: Hang on. Hang on. The Murdochs settled. You don’t agree with Murdoch?

LINDELL: Well, I don’t know. Were they in on it? I say they were in on it. There, they can come after me too, I don’t care. […]

We do know Fox does not talk — they don’t talk about our election platforms. They don’t talk about any election platforms. Machines or vaccines. Fox is silent. They’re like a weather channel, Steve, where you can’t report hurricanes or tornadoes, Steve. […]

BANNON: I’m gonna make a wild guess. I don’t think this is gonna – I don’t think media is going to spin this in a positive nature. I would get ready for an avalanche.

LINDELL: Absolutely not. I can’t even imagine the things. The fall of Mike Lindell. We knew he’d go down because when – he spoke out for his First Amendment right of free speech.

You know, it’s funny how they protect all of these machine companies. They protect the evil. […]

I’m never stopping talking about fixing and securing our election platforms.

That’s the problem, Mike, you keep talking crazy and it’s not going over well. Now what I find comical is that Lindell sounds surprised, almost, that his lawyers have left. I cannot fathom how that could be. The reality of the legal world is that you pay lawyers a certain retainer and they use those funds and then when more money is needed, they tell you that. It’s not a surprise like somebody jumping out of a birthday cake, you know what is in the legal account and when that’s going to run out. It’s all very transparent.

But then Lindell is not somebody to embrace the transparent or the obvious, he’s into conspiracy theory. And don’t forget there are the IRS audits, which Lindell claims are politically motivated. They may not be. If he doesn’t have enough money to pay his lawyers, maybe other people aren’t getting paid either, including Uncle Sam. And stiffing Uncle Sam is really not a good idea. Just ask Al Capone.

Newsweek could not verify Lindell’s claims and has contacted his lawyers as well as the IRS.

David M. Schizer, professor of law and economics at Columbia Law School in New York, told Newsweek that he has not followed Lindell’s case and so cannot comment on it directly.

In general terms, he said that the IRS is barred from doing audits for political reasons. “There have been scandals over the years when the IRS has been accused of auditing taxpayers for political reasons. Richard Nixon was widely criticized for proposing this possibility to his advisors, and the IRS was roundly criticized during the Obama Administration for the way it audited nonprofits, using filters that singled out conservative organizations,” he said.

“But when a taxpayer claims that an audit is tax-motivated, the IRS may well be able to show that this isn’t the case. There may be aspects of a taxpayer’s return that draw their attention. The IRS is very guarded about revealing what these “audit triggers” are, if only so that taxpayers won’t take advantage of this knowledge.”

Schizer said that if members of Congress are persuaded that an audit is tax-motivated, they can hold hearings. “Sometimes the IRS Inspector General gets involved to investigate whether this is the case. But these interventions are rare,” he said.

Asked about penalties for tax fraud, he said there are both civil and criminal sanctions. “They can be imposed on the corporation or, in some cases, on the corporation’s employees who are involved in the fraud. There also are penalties for understating income (even if the understatement is not fraud) and these penalties can add up. This is especially true now that interest rates have increased, so interest charges, which are added to penalties, can be significant as well.”

And maybe these issues are related, maybe Lindell’s lawyers leaving and the IRS audits are connected somehow. We don’t know that now, but it’s likely to come out in the wash, if there is a connection.

I wonder if the guy who proved Lindell’s symposium facts wrong, for $5 million, ever got paid? My guess is no. And say, Lindell was going to sue Kevin McCarthy for giving J6 footage only to Tucker Carlson. Whatever happened with that?

Well, Mike’s all in a tither about what the “horrible reporters” will say and unless the tape recording lies or the Newsweek quotes are wrong, he’s screwed. I don’t think you need to be a Pulitzer Prize winner to figure out that much and to say so plainly.