He keeps using that word. I don’t think it means what he thinks it means.
You know, I hate to defend Mike Lindell in any way, shape or form, but phrases like “letting him get away with murder” and “he gets away with murder” are fairly common expressions used in reference to people that manage to avoid consequences and those that enable them. They usually don’t refer to actual murder.
These idiots do enough stupid stuff that’s really stupid, no need to fish like this.
If someone calls Mike Lindell a child molester, it’s ok if it’s “an analogy”.
Eh, but what he actually said, according to the article is -
“But I got news for you, Jena,” he continued. “It’s too late. You already committed a murder and we caught you.”
Which is nowhere close to what we use as common expressions. That’s more or less a direct accusation. Now, don’t get me wrong, I suspect that in Mike’s addled brain, he may well have been trying to use such an expression, but his poor, soft, smooth contours maimed it like many of his other efforts to communicate.
A normal individual would have said they misspoke, and that they were trying to use the common analogy (as you rightly pointed out). Mike’s brain, which much like a Vogon’s, is “a misplaced, badly malformed, and dyspeptic liver,” once again failed, and skipped to the excuse without the acknowledgement.
So, much like A_H, I don’t hold the specific phrase against him, just show it as yet another failure of his ability to communicate like a human being. But if he is, indeed, a Vogon in a horrible human suit, he really should be envied - no Vogon (ignoring the extended universe) has ever reached such heights of public speaking and charisma!
Data packets, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles,mashurbitries.
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don’t!
Also this claim was made at the end of a long list of “crimes” that Griswold committed. So it really sounded like he was accusing her of murder.
On a separate note, In that screed he also claimed that government agents “pulled their daughters down the steps by their hoodies, put them out in the yard with their underwear”. Is there anyone better connected to the right wing hive mind that can tell me if there is the slimmest basis to this accusation? When I try to google it all I get is links to this particular Lindell interview so it may be purely the result of his fevered cocaine fueled imagination.
True. But he didn’t say “she got away with murder” he said “You committed a murder and we caught you”
I think he meant so say “crime” and it was a slip of the tongue. It’s still a false, and libellous statement. It was a direct accusation, not a metaphor, or a figure of speech.
The accusation doesn’t fully come from Lindell. Sheronna Bishop wrote in a statement,
“While homeschooling my youngest children, the FBI along with Mesa County Investigator Matthew Struwe decided it was necessary to bust open my front door with a battering ram and put me in handcuffs while they trampled through my home terrifying my family,” Bishop wrote in a statement after the investigation. “My daughter was pulled around by her hoodie by one of the FBI agents.”
So, the hoodie part of the statement came from Bishop’s own account. I’m not sure where the underwear claim came from, aside from Lindell’s lascivious imagination.
I’ll note that the authorities disagree with those claims.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser released a statement soon after, which said, “We dispute how some have characterized the law enforcement action carried out earlier this week in Mesa and Garfield Counties. This judicially authorized search was executed in a professional and lawful manner.”
But hey, people can feel free to believe folks who routinely make provably false statements if they want to.
Yes it was the underwear I was particularly wondering about. Unless they were being homes chooled in their underwear it seems unlikely.
After being somewhat quiet for a while (it seems, at least) here’s a new slanderous rant from Mikey to Dominion:
So would this just be folded into the existing case or a new lawsuit?
Neither, of course. He made a point of saying “allegedly” so it isn’t a libel.
The Dominion case against him is taking forever. Discovery is due to finish in January 2023, last I checked.
You want to do careful due diligence before you hand down a billion dollar judgment.
The way I see it, the longer this takes, the greater the bill for Mikey when the judge orders him to pay Dominion’s legal fees.
And he literally won’t have the money to pay the bill. That doesn’t do Dominion any good.
If Dominion drives MyPillow guy into bankruptcy because of the lies he told, that serves as pretty significant warning to future lie-tellers.
Yes indeed, Dominion should certainly spend possibly millions that they won’t get back in order to deter future lunatics from harming other parties. That will make their financial damage all worthwhile.
They’re more worried about their own reputation being harmed by defamation. If they weren’t, this lawsuit wouldn’t have taken place.
I am sure they’re aware that Lindell can’t pay enough to make up for their costs, but I’m sure they see that as the price for being able to credibly assert, “If you slander us, we will destroy you.” It’s an investment. And if they can get out the message to the rest of the public that the people spreading these rumors are lying lunatics, perhaps they can change the narrative about their company.
It was either that, or give toothless denials nobody will believe, or just say nothing and hope that enough people still have faith in their integrity to keep using their services.
Also worth noting that Lindell is only one of several parties being sued for defamation by Dominion, and that there will be much overlap between the cases. Once the first one falls, the rest will follow more swiftly (as will offers to settle).