Mike Lindell: MyPillow chief’s influence grows as devoted backer of Trump’s big lie

The wealthy Lindell has found a home among diehard Trumpists and has spent tens of millions to expose unproven electoral fraud

Members of the crowd cheer when a man, wearing a blue suit and a long red striped tie, walks by their section in the Covelli Centre . Some of the rally attendees stand as the man smiles and waves at them, applauding him before he climbs the steps to the press risers.

Surprisingly, the man at the center of this praise is not Donald Trump, even though the former US president is the host of the rally in the hardscrabble rust belt city of Youngstown, Ohio.