MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has raised eyebrows after using the deadly Texas floods to try and sell his products.
The executive encouraged customers to purchase his products and claimed a portion of the proceeds will go to non-profit Samaritan’s Purse, which is helping with relief efforts.
It comes as Lindell’s attorneys were fined thousands of dollars for filing error-riddled AI-generated court documents in his defamation case.
The embattled executive, who was recently found guilty of defaming a 2020 election worker, suggested people should purchase his pillows instead of donating directly to the victims of the devastating Texas floods.
‘You guys, we’re helping out the flood victims here in Samaritan’s Purse. So just know that part of your money goes to help them because we do that. MyPillow does that for all the tragedies across this country,’ he said on Monday’s episode of Steven Bannon’s War Room.
‘We’re there for that, for that to help. And you guys have helped MyPillow. So it’s a win-win-win.’
As the death toll from the floods soared into the 100s on Monday, the promo code ‘Texas’ was active on MyPillow’s website, reported RawStory.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Lindell and MyPillow to find out how much cash goes directly to charity and how the money is processed.
During Monday’s episode of Steven Bannon’s War Room, Mike Lindell suggested people purchase his pillows to help Texas flood victims
As the death toll from the floods soared into the 100s on Monday, the promo code ‘Texas’ was active on MyPillow’s website
The move was met with a backlash online, where Lindell was accused of, ‘trying to make money off a tragedy’.
It is the latest blow to Lindell, who last month was ordered to pay the former employee of a prominent voting equipment company $2.3 million after he defamed him by calling him a ‘traitor’.
On Tuesday, it emerged that lawyers representing Lindell in his defamation case over his 2020 election conspiracies are facing $3,000 fines each for submitting inaccurate briefs in April, according to KDVR.
US District Court Judge Nina Y. Wang found that attorneys Christopher I. Kachouroff and Jennifer T. DeMaster violated court rules when they submitted a motion that contained numerous errors, including misquotes from caselaw and citations to nonexistent cases, reported The Denver Post.
According to the judge, Kachouroff admitted to using artificial intelligence, claiming he used to check a document he had written.
‘Not initially. Initially, I did an outline for myself, and I drafted a motion, and then we ran it through AI,’ Kachouroff said. ‘Your Honor, I personally did not check it. I am responsible for it not being checked.’
Lindell was found liable for defamation following a two week trial last month during which the executive doubled down on his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
The jury found that Lindell made two defamatory statements about Eric Coomer, the former product strategy and security director for Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s attorneys have been fined for submitting AI-generated court documents
The first statement came on May 9, 2021, when Lindell attacked voting machine companies and then said Coomer was a traitor.
The other statement came on April 6, 2022, a day after Lindell was served with Coomer’s lawsuit as he was about to appear at an event at the Colorado state Capitol. Lindell accused Coomer of being ‘part of the biggest crime this world has ever seen.’
The jury cleared Lindell of defaming Coomer eight other times for statements made by both himself and others who appeared on Lindell’s online media platform, Frankspeech.
In May, Lindell told the Daily Mail he had a few minutes alone with President Trump during a closed-door meeting at the White House.
Lindell used his highly-coveted one-on-one to bring up the enforcement of an obscure tax provision that touched small businesses, including his own, during the pandemic.
He told the Daily Mail he met with Trump to push for a change in the way the IRS calculates a COVID-era program that rewarded businesses that kept workers on the payroll.
Lindell, who used the program for his MyPillow, Inc. company, says he’s now working to erase the tax headache for small business owners.
And he started at the top with President Trump in an unannounced meeting after a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden.
‘It’s just a big mess. Why would you want to go back and redo all these returns for the whole country?’ he told Daily Mail exclusively.
‘The whole country would have to do the tax returns up to when you received that check.’
