Mike Lindell Denies Claims Fox News Dropped MyPillow Over Lack of Payment

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has denied claims that his business ads were removed from Fox over unpaid bills.

Lindell took to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday to announce that Fox News had "canceled" MyPillow commercials without giving a reason why.

Fox News, however, said it was due to an unpaid account. "As soon as their account is paid, we would be happy to accept their advertising," a Fox News spokesperson told Newsweek last week.

Despite this, Lindell speculated in a video posted on X on Friday that the reason for the ads being withdrawn is due to the broadcaster not wishing to have his "face on the network leading up to the 2024 election in support of our great real president Donald Trump." He did not refer to the alleged unpaid bills owed to the channel.

But while speaking with Steve Bannon on the War Room podcast, Lindell went on to deny that he had unpaid bills owed to Fox.

"Well it had nothing to do with unpaid bills Steve. I am reaching out to Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox, I'll be reaching out to her today to find out what this is all about," Lindell said in a clip posted to X by attorney Ron Filipkowski on Monday.

Lindell explained he found out that MyPillow had been "shut down" on Fox after an offer was made to test an ad on the network. It is unclear which side the offer came from.

"It has nothing to do with money, we're well within our credit limits there," Lindell reiterated.

Lindell, a loyal ally of Trump, has been a vocal proponent of the former president's unproven claims that the 2020 election was stolen via widespread voter fraud.

He went on to say that he believes the reason for the ads being removed is down to his hiring of commentator and broadcaster Lou Dobbs, who hosted his own show on Fox Business from 2011 until it was canceled in 2021, soon after he was named in a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed by voting technology company Smartmatic.

Dobbs now hosts a show on Frank Speech, which is run by Lindell.

Lindell pointed out the timeline between the new show being released on Monday and the incident with Fox taking place on Wednesday last week.

"I don't know if this is political or not, but I want to reach out to Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox, because Steve I have to protect my employees too," Lindell continued.

Newsweek has asked Fox News and MyPillow for further comment by email.

This isn't the first time MyPillow has been dropped. Numerous retailers stopped stocking its products after Lindell was embroiled in various lawsuits linked to denying the results of the 2020 presidential election. In April 2023, Lindell was ordered by an arbitration panel to pay $5 million to a software engineer for breach of contract in a dispute over data that Lindell claimed proved Chinese interference in the 2020 election.