Mike Lindell Must Pay $546,156 To Smartmatic, But He Keeps Spreading ‘Lunacy’ In WY, per Liz Cheney

Things are moving right along for Mike Lindell. Right along to the poor house. Plus, he’s not getting any more popular as he heads there. He journeyed this week to Wyoming, along with Donald Trump, for the purpose of taking down established veteran Republican Liz Cheney. That may not be so easy as it looks. Trump and Lindell found out that one in Georgia, where they failed to take down their enemies in the recent primary.

First things first. Above the Law:

US District Judge Patrick Schlitz declined Lindell’s invitation to punish Dominion Voting Systems for the tort of suing Mike Lindell, and transferred the case to DC, at which point Smartmatic warned that it was going to request Rule 11 sanctions against Lindell and his lawyers. But these brain geniuses ignored the threat, and instead dismissed their claims against Smartmatic, then added the company back as third party defendant in the pending Dominion case. Only this time on top of the RICO libelslander allegations, Lindell accused Smartmatic of witness tampering via cease and desist letters sent to people making false claims about the company.

Last week Judge Carl J. Nichols had enough. He not only granted Smartmatic’s motion to dismiss, but he also agreed to sanction Lindell, his company, and his lawyers Douglas A. Daniels and Heath A. Novosad, both of whom have already withdrawn from the case.

“In particular, the Court concludes that at the very least Lindell’s claim against Smartmatic under the Support or Advocacy Clause falls on the frivolous side of the line (other claims do too),” he wrote. “As a result, the Court orders Lindell and his previous counsel to pay some of the fees and costs Smartmatic has incurred defending itself and moving for sanctions under Rule 11.”

“Some of the fees” is a pretty stiff figure.

“Smartmatic seeks an award of at least $546,156 for reasonable legal fees for 1168.6 hours of work investigating, researching, and drafting several complex motions, plus $400 in costs,” they argue, describing the figure as an 18.4 percent haircut off the actual time expended, in deference to Judge Nichols’s finding that only “some” of Lindell’s claims were entirely frivolous.

You would think that would serve as a speed bump at least and you would be wrong. Lindell got that bad news last Friday and he was right out there a few days later in Wyoming spreading more stolen election madness. The Hill:

While attending a rally for former President Trump in Casper, Wyo., this month, Lindell told a local news website that widespread voter fraud occurred in Wyoming during the 2020 presidential election and that anyone who says otherwise is a traitor to the country.

“Any politician says that — 100% traitor,” Lindell said. “Wyoming had 20-some thousand votes stole in the president election. That’s almost 10 percent of your home [total cast] votes in Wyoming. Everything was taken.”

What’s nuts about this is that it’s refusing to take yes for an answer. Wyoming voted overwhelmingly for Trump. But it’s still not enough? Apparently not.

“We have a name for this in Wyoming. Lunacy,” Cheney said in a tweet on Tuesday after Lindell’s comments were published.

On Wednesday, Cheney’s reelection campaign issued a statement calling Lindell an “unhinged conspiracy theorist.”

“Our county clerks work tirelessly and do a fantastic job, as does our Secretary of State,” campaign manager Tammy Hooper said. “The people of Wyoming honor and respect their public service and we have complete confidence in them to fairly and lawfully carry out our elections, as they have done consistently in the past.”

We’ll see how well Trump and Lindell fare in Wyoming. My take on it is that it’s going to be a repeat, except worse, of Georgia. Trump does alright in a situation where he endorses somebody when there is essentially no contest. But as we saw in Georgia, where there was an entrenched old guard GOP to contend with, he couldn’t budge it. That’s my prediction here.

I think Harriet Hageman’s name is going to be mud when all is said and done, but we have zero sympathy. It’s well known that Everything Trump Touches Dies. If she hasn’t gotten the message by now, she’s a bit slow.

Just as a side note, Lindell’s other Georgia crony, Kandiss Taylor, lost access to YouTube because she wouldn’t stop with the stolen election dirge. It’s not a winning ticket. Apparently Lindell needs to lose all to see that.