Fox News Stops Running MyPillow Commercials In A Payment Dispute With Election Denier Mike Lindell

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — MyPillow chief government and outstanding election denier Mike Lindell stated Friday that Fox News has stopped working his firm’s commercials, disputing the community’s assertion that it’s just because he hasn’t paid his payments.

Lindell went public by tweeting that that Fox, which had been one in every of MyPillow’s largest promoting retailers, had canceled him. He stated in his tweet that he didn’t know why however that he suspected that the community was attempting to silence him. Fox denied that.

Losing Fox was simply the most recent in a sequence of economic and authorized setbacks for Minnesota-based MyPillow and Lindell, who continues to propagate former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him, partially by rigged voting machine techniques. Several big-box retailers, together with Walmart, have discontinued his merchandise, and attorneys who have been defending him in opposition to defamation lawsuits by voting machine firms give up.

“As soon as their account is paid, we would be happy to accept their advertising,” Fox spokeswoman Irena Briganti stated.

“They’re 100% lying,” Lindell stated an interview with The Associated Press. But he acknowledged that MyPillow owes cash to Fox. He put the determine at $7.8 million, however he insisted that the sum is inside his credit score line with the community. He stated MyPillow has lengthy spent a median of $1 million per week to run its advertisements on Fox. And he stated the community had lengthy allowed him 12 weeks of credit score till it lately reduce that to eight weeks.

“This has nothing to do with money. That’s a fact,” Lindell stated.

Lindell stated he believes Fox needs to silence him “because I want to secure our election platforms.” And he stated he suspects the community is sore as a result of his Lindell TV/FrankSpeech on-line channel lately employed former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, whose debut present on Monday night time featured an interview with Trump, who made additional false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.

Fox final April agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems practically $800 million to avert a trial within the voting machine firm’s lawsuit that might have uncovered how the community promoted lies in regards to the 2020 election on reveals by Dobbs and different hosts. Fox canceled Dobbs’ present three years in the past.

Lindell acknowledged in an interview in October that he owed two legislation corporations that have been defending him in opposition to lawsuits by Dominion and Smartmatic hundreds of thousands of {dollars} that he couldn’t pay, which is why they give up. He stated MyPillow had been “decimated.”

But Lindell insisted Friday that MyPillow is “doing great.” He stated it’s nonetheless working advertisements on one other conservative community, Newsmax, and on his personal platforms. But he conceded that shedding Fox will damage the enterprise and stated he would run his advertisements there once more if Fox would take them.

“Obviously, it would be great if Fox said, ‘Hey, come back,’ ” Lindell stated.