MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Says the FBI Seized His Phone in a Hardee's Drive-Thru

Mar. 15, 2025

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Speaking on his online show,The Lindell Report, Lindell said he was in the drive-thru at a Hardee’s in Mankato, Minnesota, on Tuesday afternoon when federal agents surrounded him.

“We go through a Hardee’s drive-thru,” Lindell said on the show. “We pull around … we pull up and she says, ‘Pull ahead,’ you know, ‘cause they had to make the order … we pull ahead, and a car comes perpendicular. And I said to my buddy, That’s either a bad guy, or the FBI.'”

According to Lindell, it was the latter, as one of the agents who approached told him they had come to collect his cellphone.

“I said, ‘My whole company, I run five companies off that. I don’t have a computer,'” Lindell recalled. “‘My hearing aids run off this. Everything runs off my phone.'”

At that point, the pillow entrepreneur said he consulted his attorney before eventually handing over the phone.

Dennis Montgomery — whom Lindell referenced to The Daily Beast — is, like the MyPillow CEO, a conspiracy theorist who has previously claimed that Trump only lost the 2020 election because, as he tells it, a deep-state supercomputer was used to change the ballot count. (Montgomery is also a former computer programmer who was previously mired in scandal for allegedly conning the FBI out of millions ingovernment contractsfollowing the 9/11 terrorist attacks.)

On social media, Lindell posted what appears to be a federal grand jury subpoena and a search warrant related to voting machines in Mesa County, Colorado.

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In anearlier interview with PEOPLE, Lindell said he first met Trump in 2016 after the then-Republican candidate invited him up to Trump Tower in New York City. Recounting how, after he got sober in 2009 following a well-documented crack addiction, he had “never voted,” Lindell said he found a kindred spirit in the now former president.

source: people.com