MyPillow chief spends tens of millions in fresh crusade to push Trump’s big lie

Mike Lindell says he has poured up to $40m into wave of lawsuits and a new movie as US experts warn of threat to democracy

MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell, a fervent Donald Trump ally, says he has poured $35-40m into a wide crusade - a wave of lawsuits to get rid of voting machines that he faults for Trump's defeat, a new movie about voting fraud, and a hefty legal stable - to promote charges that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud, despite a flood of contrary evidence.

In his frenetic quest to dispense with electronic voting equipment that he has often charged are defective, Lindell is hosting a two-day Moment of Truth" summit on 20 and 21 August in Missouri, that he expects will draw 200 federal and state officials and staff, as well as hundreds of representatives from groups nationwide who have investigated election fraud this year and in 2020.