MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said Monday that his company has been “crippled” by American Express after it allegedly cut MyPillow’s credit line by about 90 percent.
Mr. Lindell, a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, has long said that extensive campaign is being waged by retailers and financial institutions to cancel him and his business ventures following his claims after the 2020 election.
“We really need everybody’s help right now. We have things going on I’m going to let you all know this week,” he told Steve Bannon on his “War Room” Rumble show. “American Express, I wasn’t going to say this, we’ve been with them 15 years and we do all of our online marketing, all our shipping with them, out of the blue they took our credit line from a million dollars down to $100,000, just cripples MyPillow.”
He added that the credit card firm lowered the line for “no reason” and “no explanation was given, adding it “just dropped it down last Tuesday.” The Epoch Times has contacted American Express, which hasn’t released a public statement on Mr. Lindell’s statement, for comment on the matter.
The move, he said, is part of an “all-out attack on MyPillow,” saying his company was also targeted by another company that he did not disclose in recent days.
Over the summer, Mr. Lindell announced he would be auctioning off 700 pieces of equipment, including forklifts, desks, and cubicle units. Speaking to a local newspaper in Minneapolis, he said the auction comes after he said MyPillow lost $100 million in revenue due to retailers and other companies halting sales of his products.
“It was a massive, massive cancellation,” he told the Minneapolis Star Tribune in July. “We lost $100 million from attacks by the box stores, the shopping networks, the shopping channels, all of them did cancel culture on us.”
According to a search of Walmart’s website, the big box retailer doesn’t sell MyPillow products. The company said last year it would stop selling MyPillow items at brick-and-mortar locations. In January 2022, one of his banks, the Minnesota Bank & Trust, described the MyPillow CEO as a “reputation risk” and cut ties with him weeks later.
Other retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond, Wayfair, H-E-B, and Kohl’s also stopped selling Mr. Lindell’s products, he has previously said. As one of the first companies to cut ties with MyPillow—days after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach—Bed Bath said it would discontinue sales due to a “number of underperforming items and brands.”
And earlier this year, Mr. Lindell told Business Insider that he had to sell a “building I had in Savage, in Minnesota, in October. And I had to borrow 2 million too. I’ve spent it all on fighting for this country.” In March, he told a left-wing news outlet that his business is doing fine after launching what he described as “MyPillow 2.0.”
About a year ago, the pillow magnate also said that agents with the FBI seized his cellphone at a fast-food restaurant, also posting a grand jury subpoena from a federal prosecutor in Colorado and what appeared to be a search warrant. The Denver FBI field office told news outlets at the time that “without commenting on this specific matter, I can confirm that the FBI was at that location executing a search warrant authorized by a federal judge.”
“The FBI came after me and took my phone,” Mr. Lindell wrote on Facebook. “They surrounded me in a Hardee’s and took my phone that I run all my business, everything with. What they’ve done is weaponize—the FBI, it’s disgusting. I don’t have a computer. Everything I do [is] off that phone. Everything was on there. And they told me not to tell anybody. Here’s an order: ‘Don’t tell anybody!’ ‘OK, I won’t!’ Well, I am.”
So, were the FBI agents wearing suits? Or were they wearing brown shirts and jack boots? Asking for a friend. Wife and I saw this underhandedness and checked the companies that cancelled him. Contacted all the companies we did business with, by phone, and told them we were cancelling them, including any business or accounts. We also advised them that we will be influencing all our families and friends to boycott them, also. We are keeping our fingers crossed and praying that Kolh’s and Bed, Bath and Beyond tank, soon.
I’m Canadian. All things work together for good to those ….( you know the rest if you know the BEST)..ironic isn’t it that 100 years before the 2020 stolen election, America was up in arms over a big rig in their national pastime when media clamoured ‘ Say it ain’t so Joe’ – Well it’s ironic too that stealing is allowed in baseball, home base steal being considered by many to be the rarest yet most exciting play – requiring opportunity and timing but most importantly- courage. It was a Canadian from Cape Breton who mentored the Babe in reform school in both baseball and life. It was a Canadian whose novel about Shoeless Joe ( anyone thinking another irony – clueless Joe ?) enabled Field of Dreams.
Mike Lindell is an American hero. Mike – it’ll be 70 years come 2024 that Barzun’s iconic quote came out in his 1954 (holy book) Gods Country and Mine. Yet at age 85 Barzun walked away from the sport saying it had become too greedy. Barzun died in 2012 aged 104. He never recanted.
MLB has a legal protection again any and all competition but cannot claim such control over the game itself, its rules and cultural connections.
Here’s a headline Mike can make happen:
MLB cries foul ball over steal of home base, top potential sponsors
to which Mike Lindell responds with the headline:
There no crying in baseball.
I want to gift Mike. Here’s the pitch – honour Barzun and baseball come 2024 with a free baseball board game devoid of anything MLB, its teams, players – past or present. Consider that there have been well over a thousand baseball themed board games in the last 150 years yet not one has captured the hearts, minds and homes of America.
So – the free part , Mike will vet 12 sponsors whose logos will be aboard to be brand associated perpetuity with everything baseball – Mikes pitch to these chosen 12 will be they’ll underwrite the cost, not to be viewed on any of the 30 MLB stadium bill boards, but to be their own stadium bill boards in American homes.
This Brand Knew Idea can/will be Mike’s way out from under the evil design of these scoundrels.
So Truth Press – you’ll have my email contact and I’ll provide you and Mike with the pitch which I’ll be happy to say Mike will launch himself as MyPitch.
Btw- I’m from Cape Breton too – just saying.