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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has resorted to trashing a right wing media outlet called TruNews after his cyber symposium was a complete failure. According to Lindell, the outlet is being run by Antifa and funded by Media Matters, two claims that have no basis anywhere near reality. But this is what he has become - a crazy old man yelling at everything he can because he's lost all credibility at this point. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
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Mike Lindell is super angry that his cyber symposium last week was a complete and total failure. So he has resorted to creating new conspiracy theories to make himself feel a little better about why everything came crashing down and his latest conspiracy is that not just that Antifa came in and infiltrated it because that's what he was pushing at the end of last week. But now he claims that Antifa was working in coordination with a right wing news outlet that he is now accusing of being funded by Media Matters. Take a look, here is Mike Lindell explaining his new crazy conspiracy theory and of course it's quickly followed by the folks from that news outlet, TruNews, talking about the fact that they now just can't believe anything he says. Here it is.
I have a report from, from our counter-intelligence and the people that were there, um, they've given me this report and this will be ready by tonight. Um, Antifa, um, they, on our counter-intelligence, Antifa, uh, they were, they, individuals were, were working with TruNews, which is a fake news site established by Media Matters for America. Uh, we believe Zachary Petrizzo from Salon was involved. We've got them all on tape colluding with masks on. If his sources of information are so faulty that he accuses TruNews of being a Media Matters puppet. Funded by Media Matters. Funded by Media Matters and smuggle, we smuggle Antifa terrorists into meetings. If his information is that faulty, then I can't trust anything Mike Lindell says.
It's important to point out the fact that TruNews, well, let's get this straight, not funded by Media Matters at all, but, two, yes, they were at their cyber symposium. They have run Mike Lindell's conspiracy theories about the election for months and months and months. They actually live streamed the entire cyber symposium because they supported Mike Lindell. They liked what he said. They believed what he said. There, there, there was no Antifa infiltration with TruNews, which by the way, right wing watch describes TruNews as a anti-vaccine, end times conspiracy theory network, you know, so we're not talking about just your average run of the mill right-wingers okay. These folks are pretty extreme. And even they're looking at this now, like, dude, what the hell? We, we, we didn't do anything to you. We supported you. We ran your cyber symposium when few others would do that and now you're coming after us, acting like we're Antifa. Okay.
Now we officially can't believe anything you say, you know, it's really sad for the folks at TruNews that it, it took a personal attack against them, for them to be like this guy's nuts. But hey, welcome to the resistance, right? No, in fact, we do not welcome the TruNews folks over to this side at all, because as right wing watch points out, yeah, they're, they're pretty terrible as well. But this is what Mike Lindell has been reduced to. Okay. It was bad enough when the only conspiracy theory he was pushing was that we're going to overturn the election and Trump's coming back on the 13th. But now like every other day, the guy's coming out with something totally bonkers and totally new. Oh, Antifa attacked me. They threw a tangerine at me is apparently what we're hearing now.
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