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BumRushDaShow

(167,899 posts)
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 09:50 AM Feb 14

Mike Lindell drains nearly half his campaign cash to buy copies of his own book

Source: Raw Story

February 13, 2026 10:17PM ET


MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is promoting his bid for Minnesota governor by handing out copies of his autobiography – and paying for them with thousands of dollars in campaign funds. According to The Daily Beast, Lindell has spent roughly $187,000 of the $356,000 he raised during the first two weeks of his campaign on bulk purchases of his book, “What are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO.”

Lindell announced his gubernatorial run in December after being encouraged by President Donald Trump, who refers to him as “the pillow guy.” “When we’re going around to all the places in Minnesota, other people are giving a flyer,” Lindell told the Minnesota Reformer. “I’m giving them the whole book so they know who I am.”

Lindell, a prominent 2020 election denier who has accused Satan of interfering in the vote, has spent millions promoting conspiracy theories about election fraud, according to the Daily Beast report. In June, he was ordered to pay $2.3 million in damages for defaming a former Dominion Voting Systems employee and has said he is millions of dollars in debt, the outlet added.

“I can’t self-fund. I don’t have any money left,” Lindell previously acknowledged. Instead, his campaign has relied on donor contributions to purchase copies of his $19.97 book, which recounts his recovery from crack addiction to embrace evangelical Christianity.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-2675268902/



Keep forgetting he is running for governor of MN.
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Mike Lindell drains nearly half his campaign cash to buy copies of his own book (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Feb 14 OP
He's a garbage human being. Swede Feb 14 #1
They burned books during hitlers reign, that was bullshit, BUT bluestarone Feb 14 #2
He's laundering campaign cash into his own pocket. House of Roberts Feb 14 #3
Yes, exactly. niyad Feb 14 #5
another... myohmy2 Feb 14 #4
So what we have is this: Wonder Why Feb 14 #6
His whole campaign is a grift. nt SunSeeker Feb 14 #7
- Lemon Lyman Feb 14 #8
Glad he's off the hard drugs Hey Joe Feb 14 #9
Yup, his brain is Swiss cheese TexasBushwhacker Feb 14 #20
The bigger story is that there are people who actually gave their money in order to elect this nut tulipsandroses Feb 14 #10
Lindell's campaign is a scam. He's broke after all the money he was swindled out of with his 2020 election fraud hunts ChicagoTeamster Feb 14 #11
The MyPedo CEO Blue Owl Feb 14 #12
I looked at his book page on Amazon nuxvomica Feb 14 #13
The votes for MN Governor's November 3, 2026 election have been counted and Mike is the winner twodogsbarking Feb 14 #14
There used to be 'freak shows" at county fairs. Now every day is one. twodogsbarking Feb 14 #15
I can't wait until he and RFK Jr dance off into the sunset together, holding hands and never being heard from again. generalbetrayus Feb 14 #16
He is such a joke. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Feb 14 #17
Looking like this is more a GO_FUNDME than bluestarone Feb 14 #18
The candidate lineup for the MNGOP is as LAME as it gets. ProudMNDemocrat Feb 14 #19
Spurious News: Satan denies interfering with 2020 election! jmowreader Monday #21

bluestarone

(21,835 posts)
2. They burned books during hitlers reign, that was bullshit, BUT
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 10:02 AM
Feb 14

I'm 100% for these books burning!!

House of Roberts

(6,455 posts)
3. He's laundering campaign cash into his own pocket.
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 10:06 AM
Feb 14

depends on how much of each book's price he gets, but it is laundering.

myohmy2

(3,721 posts)
4. another...
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 10:07 AM
Feb 14

...fearless leader/Republican clone making money...

...buy your own product with some else's cash...

...okay...

Wonder Why

(6,721 posts)
6. So what we have is this:
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 10:18 AM
Feb 14

They get people to donate money so they can launder the money to give him income from campaign expenses.

His book was done as a “a raw, authentic account by a man many thought would never rise above his serial, addiction-fueled failures.” but he has sunk far below those days. So the "many" were right.

He said “I’m giving them the whole book so they know who I am.” They know what you are, Mike. A grifter, liar, one who falsely accused even Satan and a lowlife who has gone from being a crack addict at the bottom of the barrel to someone whom even the barrel couldn't stomach.

But the MAGAts will vote for him because, to them, anyone is better than a human being as a governor.

I think I got the summary of his life right!

Lemon Lyman

(1,583 posts)
8. -
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 10:26 AM
Feb 14

I thought he was bankrupt 18 bankruptcies ago(?)

How many times do rich people get to go bramkrupt before they're actually out of money?

Hey Joe

(531 posts)
9. Glad he's off the hard drugs
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 10:28 AM
Feb 14

Too bad about the permanent brain damage though.
Oh well, nobody was going to buy that book anyway.

TexasBushwhacker

(21,145 posts)
20. Yup, his brain is Swiss cheese
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 07:37 PM
Feb 14

I have a brother like that. Found God, gave up drugs and is still a self-centered asshole.

tulipsandroses

(8,216 posts)
10. The bigger story is that there are people who actually gave their money in order to elect this nut
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 10:43 AM
Feb 14

Unbelievable that anyone thinks this man should be elected.

ChicagoTeamster

(688 posts)
11. Lindell's campaign is a scam. He's broke after all the money he was swindled out of with his 2020 election fraud hunts
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 11:00 AM
Feb 14

Last edited Sat Feb 14, 2026, 12:37 PM - Edit history (1)

Con Artists saw the moron a mile away and offered hexadecimal gobblety goop that they claimed was router data proving data was altered by Chinese satellites and Mikey held a three-day "Cyber Symposium" in Sioux Falls, S.D. and actual IT professionals in attendance told him that what he was displaying was garbage that proved nothing. Mikey was claiming to have the proof of election data being sent by satellite to computers in China and involved a compuetr company owned by the then already dead Hugo Chavez.

Also, Trump never repaid him for events he held (Trump stiffs everybody) and his pillow sales tanked so he's really really broke.

nuxvomica

(14,001 posts)
13. I looked at his book page on Amazon
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 12:01 PM
Feb 14

The book originally had a holographic cover so that it would be like Mike was in the room with you. But only the non-holographic version is available now, "For Correctional Facility Shipping ONLY". Under "Products related to this item" is a laminated quick-study guide to the DSM-5-TR, which is "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders 5-TR". That seems appropriate.

I was trying to see whether it was self-published and the page count to roughly calculate how much it's costing him per copy when he's buying them up with campaign funds. The publisher is "Lindell Publishing" so probably self-published but no page count listed. It costs me around $4 per copy for author sales of my book so figure that may be what it's costing him, in which case he bought around 46,000 copies. If he is doing a retail buy, that would be about 13,000 copies and he's making a couple dollars profit on each. He must be doing a retail buy because he can't possibly have the space to store 46K books.

twodogsbarking

(18,216 posts)
14. The votes for MN Governor's November 3, 2026 election have been counted and Mike is the winner
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 12:14 PM
Feb 14

by a margin that no one has ever seen. Trump counted the votes and don't bring up election fraud. He knows more about it than anyone.

generalbetrayus

(1,673 posts)
16. I can't wait until he and RFK Jr dance off into the sunset together, holding hands and never being heard from again.
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 01:14 PM
Feb 14

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,752 posts)
19. The candidate lineup for the MNGOP is as LAME as it gets.
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 04:54 PM
Feb 14

It is my guess that NONE of them will make it. The one who does, will lose in November.

No Republican in Minnesota has a chance of winning State or Federal races given what Donnie is doing to make sure we all suffer. Except for Duluth area, the Twin Cities and suburbs, and Rochester, Minnesota is rural. Farmers here are struggling big time! Minnesota has become more DIVERSE in population than when I moved here 50 years ago.

Tom Emmer looks secure enough in the 6th CD, but the rest of the Republican field in Congress are on shaky ground if they continue to stick up for TACO.

jmowreader

(53,034 posts)
21. Spurious News: Satan denies interfering with 2020 election!
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 03:40 PM
Monday

HELL (Spurious News Network) -- Pillow manufacturer Mike Lindell has accused Satan of interfering with the 2020 presidential election, which he claims is the reason Donald Trump wasn't reelected. Satan says that isn't so.

"Donald Trump, he's my boy," said Satan. "He's wreaked more havoc on the world than I ever dreamt of doing. He's responsible for what, seven of the ten plagues in the Bible? If I was going to do anything to that damned election I would have made sure Trump won it. Please understand I'm still throwing him in a lake of boiling hog manure once he gets down here, but while he's still alive I'm going to applaud his success."

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