Mike Lindell Says Another Company Just Canceled Him

Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, claimed on Friday to have lost another business partner.

Lindell founded the MyPillow company and created its namesake product in 2004, later losing accreditation from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) in 2017 after an influx of consumer complaints about its advertising methods. He has also been a longtime supporter of Trump, beginning in the earlier days of his 2016 presidential campaign.

He rose to greater national prominence in the aftermath of Trump's loss to Joe Biden in 2020, with reports suggesting that he was advising Trump on methods for contesting the results and staying in power. Lindell has, since then, remained a vocal proponent of the former president's false claims of election fraud, and has by his own admission sunk a large amount of his own money into pursuing evidence that such fraud had cost Trump the election.

Lindell has also lost a number of prominent business partnerships since 2021, with the CEO claiming that it was due to his support of election fraud claims, insisting that he has been the victim of "cancel culture" while others have said his political pursuits have made his brand toxic and unpopular. MyPillow was dropped by major vendors Kohl's and Bed, Bath, & Beyond, who cited market research that showed low demand for the company's products. Walmart and Slumberland Furniture followed suit later on.

On Friday, Lindell claimed during an appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room program on Real America's Voice that an unspecified online merchant server company had dropped support for one of his other ventures, the Lindell Recovery Network, which offers aid to struggling addicts, with Lindell himself being a former drug addict who started MyPillow after getting clean.

Lindell further claimed that the company told him in a phone call that they "don't want to be associated with your name."

"This just happened one hour ago, I had to pull over here on the road," Lindell said, phoning into the interview from the seat of a car. "Our merchant server just canceled the Lindell Recovery Network, this is my network for addicts, and I've had [the website] with them, I don't know, five, six years...So now, that's a distraction, I've got to take more of my funds and put in to help [the site]."

Newsweek reached out for comment on Saturday afternoon via Lindell's "Offense Fund" website.

In addition, MyPillow was briefly dropped as an advertiser by Fox News last month, with Lindell telling Newsweek that he was uncertain why.

"This was on Wednesday. I spent a day wondering what to do," he told Newsweek. "It's very, very disturbing news."

A source close to the matter at Fox News later told Newsweek that the situation was down to the company's advertiser account not being paid up. MyPillow ads returned to the network in February, with Fox News noting only its prior stance on the matter.

"As soon as their account is paid, we would be happy to accept their advertising," its initial statement explained.