We are not, as a church, trying to pick a political party, endorse a political party, anything like that.
That's not who we are. We are trying to take a stand for righteousness.
And all you have to do is see what the candidates stand for, measure it against the Scripture,
and you've already got your choice. It's already picked.
Debating if I should say something or not.
I don't want to get anybody angry right out of the gates, and our security people have to go to work right away.
I will say this, coming from a biblical Christian perspective, I personally would like someone to explain to me how you can be a current Democrat and a Christian.
I've never had someone explain that well to me.
Because, see, the problem is, if you vote that party, when they go into office, they're going to vote party lines.
You say, but they're a nice person, and they're Christians, and they say, well, that's fine.
But when they get in office, they're going to vote all the things that are anti-Scripture, and we put them there.
So, if you're a Democrat tonight, welcome. Glad to have you.
Please talk to me afterwards, and explain to me how you justify being a Democrat and biblical Christianity.
How do you marry those two?
And I'm not saying the Republicans are perfect by any means. They got issues.
But we are in a two-party system, whether we like it or not.
I mean, that's somebody who's going to get into major office is either going to be Republican or Democrat.
And at least the Republicans still pray at their conventions.
I mean, if you can't find anything else good, at least they still pray.
And give God some credit. And to me, that goes a long way.
So, we're here to find righteousness, and we bring in candidates.
I've said before, we're willing to bring in Democratic candidates.
They're going to have to take some heat, though, because when the Q&A time comes, they're going to get asked some direct questions.
And so far, we don't have any takers.
And it's like, well, whatever. We're willing, though.
And I try to keep an open mind here, both sides of the story.
But tonight, we've got someone who it's an honor to have.
And I will say, I told him privately, I'll say this publicly.
Thank you for taking a stand at great cost.
Great cost to his reputation. Great cost to his company.
I mean, great cost.
So thank you. We sincerely, from the bottom of our heart, thank you.
So let's start with prayer. You go to that.
Lord, thank you for this evening.
Bless this time together. Open our hearts and our minds.
I know I'm praying with the choir here, and we're all here because we want to see this country return back to some godliness.
But Lord, we're asking that not only for us, but for those in this country,
especially the group that seems to be the deciding voters now,
open their hearts and minds to see what's real, to see righteousness, to see deception,
and not just lock down in their opinions, but open them to see things a little bit more from your perspective.
Help us to do that tonight. I pray.
Let this be a peaceful gathering. Let this be a calm gathering.
But at the same token, we want to learn more about how we can make a difference in this world and be salt and light to this world.
We thank you for the opportunity. Thank you for all these people that have come.
And Lord, we call your blessing on this evening in Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen. Rick, would you come and you introduce yourself and take it from here?
Thank you so much, everybody. We'll see how well this microphone works.
I am Rick Weibel, the campaign manager for Mike Lindell.
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When you look at what's happening in Minnesota right now, that book will clearly explain Mike's past,
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You can pay cash, check, or scan a QR code and pay by credit card. That's all I have to say. Please welcome Mike Lindell.
Thank you. I'm going to put this here so I have a timer.
Last night I talked for five hours, so I'm losing my voice.
And then I had a deposition today. Keith Ellison keeps attacking my Christian Recovery Network. It's disgusting.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take you back for 15 minutes and tell you who I am and bring you up like if you haven't read the book.
And so I was born and raised in Minnesota. My parents divorced when I was seven years old back in 1968.
And we moved to Chaska, Minnesota, and I was the only, my mother and I moved to Sarab. I was the only kid from a divorce family.
Divorces were not common back then. So I felt indifferent. I felt I was very shy or I would show off.
And as you read my book, one of the things I always said, I always thought I just didn't like small talk.
I just didn't like, my biggest fear was talking in front of public and talking public speaking.
I mean, God's got a sense of humor. And it was because you don't get rejected if you don't talk.
So it was an inner feeling of rejection. I could never get over that. I wasn't good enough.
I wasn't worthy. I was different. I'll cast all kinds of things. And that led to my life.
I lived, I'll cut through, I was a very functioning addict. I came alcohol and cocaine when I was in my 20s.
But I was a very functioning addict. People think of addicts on the street out there with no forks.
I've been there too, though. But most addicts are functioning addicts.
I raised a family, 20 year marriage, three or four kids.
But during that time, and I was always an entrepreneur, I would come up with something, problem solution.
The last job I had was working at a drive-in movie theater in a grocery store back in, oh, 1982,
from my first six years after turning 16.
But then I remember, I got fired at the grocery store for probably the 15th time for not following.
I didn't like his rules, the rules they had. I was the hardest worker, worked my hours and he's going,
I go, what do you mean? I said, you're hurting your employees over here.
One of them was I wanted to go to a funeral of a friend of mine.
And it couldn't go because it was against the rules.
He had to be someone three days off if someone dies in your family.
And so I just went anyway. And of course, the union would get my job back and this happened now and then.
And finally, then one day, when he ended up firing me, his dad, who always stuck up for me, said,
Mike, you're destined for bigger things. He said, I'm not going to protect you this time.
He said, you don't want to be a lifer here.
And at the time I was like, yes, I do. No, don't tell me.
But it was devastating at the time. And that was one of my first lessons,
learning what can seem so bad at the time. God uses all things for good for those who believe.
And as I rolled and then from that point on, I was always an entrepreneur.
I put one of the first things. My sister popped a waterbed in a third story apartment building.
And I became a carpet cleaner. Okay.
For three years, I built this big carpet cleaning business and out of necessity, right?
Well, then I was in Wilmer Treatment Center.
Went in there for a month of treatment. I kept getting DWIs in the 80s.
And so I go into Wilmer Treatment Center in the middle of the night.
This guy says, and usually like I say, I wouldn't talk to people.
It would be like me being straight. It would be like, you know, that uneasy feeling.
You're getting an elevator. So him and I are both sitting down there at three in the morning.
And it's all quiet. It's why we're both staring at the TV. I don't even know if it was on.
And I said, well, what do you do? Or how did you get here?
Or what did you used to do before you got here?
He says, oh, I'm from California. And I ran this lunch wagon business.
I said, what do you mean? He says, well, we pull up to businesses, open them up
and everybody come out and buy off these lunch wagons. I'm going, really?
So I talked to him about it for about 10 minutes.
Four hours later, I called my buddy and I said, I'm going to be out of here in 14 days.
The minimum stay there was 28 days, but nobody got done in 28 days.
It would take a month or two months or three months.
And I said, come up with some research and talk to him.
I said, come up with $8,000. We're going to start a new business.
I said, we're going to be rich.
So he picked me up on that 28th day.
It's the earliest day ever released, the one where I worked my tail off in there.
And when you're in addiction, these counselors, I could not have forgotten more about addiction
than they would ever know. So you just played the game back then.
And so they released me and he picked me up.
And within two months, I had built this business and on the west side of the city,
there was a company called Augies on the other side of the Twin Cities.
And I had built up the whole western half and I went there going door to door
to every single United mailing, these companies back then.
All these different industrial park companies that were there.
I went door to door and I would get nose and I come back and I'm not taking no for an answer.
I tried to work my way up to the top guy and I go, yeah, I find out the person above them.
I come back the next day. Yeah, I'm here to see so-and-so.
He goes, well, who are you? And I said, I got a good plan here for your food.
And so finally I get to the top. He goes, you're so persistent.
And then one day, I needed to get this one company.
I believe it was United Mailing.
And I went there and I finally got a meeting with the president and he said,
no, because it was changing a paradigm.
It was changing an advertised paradigm where they'd have to go out of their building
to get food off this wagon rather than from their vending machines
or from their in-house, whatever they did in-house.
And I told him, I said, here's the benefits that I see.
You know, you wouldn't have to be driving into town.
We have hot sandwiches. We have all this stuff that I put out there.
And I said, how about this? I said, I believe in it so much.
I said, I'll give every single person you have.
If they come out a free sandwich or free anything, they want up the truck of the food.
I figured maybe I could sell the pops and everything else to make up for that.
Maybe break even, right?
And they had, like, I don't know, 500 employees.
And he looks at me. He goes, you do that.
I said, I'll do it all week long.
I said, and then you can make your decision.
Then if you'll do it.
Of course, my partner at the time, the guy got to go, you did what?
We don't have any money.
I said, we got sandwiches.
Anyway, we did that after the week.
That opened the door to what was amazing over the next three years.
We built on just a fleet of trucks and all these employees.
But then at the same time, I ended up, I was bartending at a bar,
a Hizzleting golf course in Nijaska.
And I ended up able to buy that on a contract for deed
because I had worked for the owner for so long.
And so I buy that on a contract and we split partners.
But the bottom line is, things would come up and I would take advantage.
I had nobody handed me any money.
It was always work, work, work.
And then, like I say, I was on a parallel track.
I was a really bad cocaine alcohol, but I wouldn't mix the two.
If I was there working, I wasn't on the drugs.
I almost got addicted to entrepreneurship at the time.
But then I got into bars.
I bought a bar in 1990 at Smitty's Tavern in Victoria,
which I had for 13 years.
And there I got in towards the tail end and got into crack cocaine.
I switched to crack.
And at that, I always looked back.
I said, you know, I was functioning on this.
I tell my wife, I said, you know, if crack hadn't came along,
you know, I might still be on cocaine.
Don't say that.
And I said, you know, because it was, you know, it was at the time then,
and I need to tell this part, that there was another thing that happened.
I was also on the Minnesota License Beverage Association Board.
And there were things that were going on where,
but I fought city hall.
We were the first state to have the casinos.
I don't know if you all know that, the Indian casinos.
This was the first state they started here in Jackbuck Junction.
Then went to Mystic Lake and then all over.
Now, when I was in, now at that time, I had my restaurant.
I mean, I had my bar and restaurant.
And then I had two others that I bought a contract for deed for the two years.
But I was always, our poll tab laws, you all know what they are here.
A lot of people don't know.
But our gambling, charitable gambling laws were wrong here.
We couldn't keep going like this.
We could not compete with the casinos.
And then also with the charities because the bars,
what was going on then, the bars and restaurants needed to have it.
If you got, if you were busy, you need to be paid for that.
Otherwise, you couldn't, your labor was just going to kill you
under helping a charity out.
And so anyway, I went out and I checked out Washington state,
which I thought had the best laws in the country at that time.
And I came back here to Minnesota.
And I basically sued City Hall.
I sued them and said, we didn't miss data Minnesota.
We need to change these laws.
Well, I lost on a technicality.
It wasn't rigged, but it was lost on a technicality.
And I lost everything.
My bar business at that time, what it was worth,
basically dropped in half.
I had worked all my life for that.
And overnight I lost it.
And because it wasn't, the value had went down
because I couldn't have any charitable gambling then.
They just said, well, you're not getting nothing
for even bringing this up.
So three and a half years later, as the story goes,
everything I fought for came true in Minnesota.
Everything I had proposed.
It saved the industry, which a lot of people know that.
And I got calls from around the state,
at least five of them saying,
Mike, we know you lost everything,
but we want to thank you for saving us.
And I said, I would do it again
because it was the right thing to do.
We were all going to be doomed.
And the reason I tell you that is because
when that bar, when I said I had to sell it,
I'll never forget, I was bawling.
They were like family.
And I think back now, that was meant to be.
I wouldn't be here. I'd probably be dead,
the way I'd been.
So you have that.
And then anyway,
so I invented my pillow in 2004.
Shortly a year after,
I spent a year inventing it,
pouring everything I had into it.
And I, because I had this dream,
I actually had the dream of my pillow
before even the invention actual pillow.
But once again, it was problem solution.
Remember, on a parallel track,
though I still was, no, I was heavily addicted to crack cocaine.
So I was, I came in two people over here, over here.
My kids and I, we'd be in the backyard
tearing up trying different things in pillows.
I had problems with pillows all my life.
I wanted to, you know, one would be too flat, too hard.
I'd use my arm and have a, you know, kink in the morning,
flip-flop all night like a guppy.
I say that in my commercial.
Your arms asleep in the morning, you know, all these things.
And I knew there had to be something better.
And so I finally get that invention.
I was turned down everywhere.
I was turned down everywhere.
All the box stores.
Boy, that's come full circle, huh?
You know, and in fact, I went into Bed Bathroom Beyond
back in 2004 in Bloomington.
And I walked in there with this pillow,
because now we had it. It was beautiful.
It's perfect. It hasn't changed since I met it.
Eighty-five million of my pillows later, by the way.
And they, we walked into Bed Bathroom Beyond.
And I was so excited because my passion
just comes through in anything.
I'm fine 100% all in, I'm all in.
And I walked in there and, and yes,
I was straight as an arrow with this pillow, so excited.
I go, how many of these pillows do you want?
I have the best pillow that's better
than all your other pillows.
And I'm going like this.
And he's going, Rich, I do guys buy these.
You know, I had no idea about the industry.
He goes, you know, you need to leave.
You know, I was thinking, when do you immediately leave?
I'm going to get out.
I was like, as I was just so passionate,
I wouldn't let him go thinking back
of, you know, building that united mailing thing, right?
No, you really need this.
I didn't know one buyer buys for the whole country, right?
For that, you know, leave.
And so then someone said, well, Mike,
why don't you, why don't you do a kiosk?
I said, what's a kiosk?
How do you spell that?
And, and so I found out what it was.
We borrowed money, I borrowed money
and actually it was from an ex-bookie.
Because he had to borrow this money
and promised him I wouldn't gamble again.
This is, you know, you'll see this in the book.
And, but, so I borrowed the money, it was like 15 grand
and we get in there and I'll remember,
I couldn't be on drugs, obviously,
but in a kiosk you walk around it
and you're on the outside,
so what do I have to do with the public?
And I was petrified of that.
I was absolutely petrified,
so my wife at the time,
she was down there, I was down there one day
where I could do it and it was just out of my skin,
but this guy came up to me and he goes,
he goes, wow, this is, you know,
this is different or whatever.
And I put family on and operated
and chiropractic recommended my wife goes,
what do you mean we're chiropractic?
I said, I gave it to our chiropractor in Chaska,
he loves it.
No, no, no, no.
And anyway,
this guy comes up and he says,
he buys a pillow,
the only one I sold,
she only sold like 14 or two months,
so we lost everything,
but that day, the one day I was there,
I sold one pillow and it was exciting,
the first pillow I had sold,
and he goes, do you have a business card?
I go, I'm all out.
I said here, I wrote my name on a piece of paper
and gave him that, right?
I go, wow, I sold one, you know?
And so it ended at the end
of December there and it was a failure.
But I didn't give up.
I said, I believe in this, I've never given up.
We had to borrow more money
to buy the kids Christmas presents.
And the following week,
I think it was like January 10th,
I get a call from this guy,
the one guy was there.
Now you think how divine this is?
I must have me tell this on TV
once back in the day
about what a divine appointment this was.
And he said, this guy goes,
you're the guy that invented this pillow here in Minnesota?
And I said, yeah.
And he goes, well, he goes,
I got one, it changed my life.
He said, this is amazing.
And I'm thinking, wow, that's the one guy
I gave my number to, right?
And he goes, I run
the Minneapolis Home and Garden show.
Would you like a spot in there?
Now remember, I had never been in shows before.
Anything I go, okay.
I said, yeah, and I go,
and I said, can I give you a check
and you cash it at the end of the show?
And he says, yeah, I saved spots
for a unique prize.
Yes, I'll help you out.
And Linton did that show.
And I changed my booth.
I put the advertisements behind me
and I put chairs in front of me.
I mean, our tables in front of me.
If you all been to a MyPillow booth
back in the day,
that's why they were there.
So you couldn't come up in the night
and have to talk to your face.
That was my shield, right?
Safety zone, right?
So we got the safety zone
and I'm on.
And these ladies were all coming up
and they all bought.
I sold like 18 pillows that day.
On the first day, I was so excited.
The feeling of selling that,
something you invented.
And the next day,
and this never happened before or since,
the next day,
every one of them except one.
I think it was 17 of the 18
paid to get back in that show
to come to my booth to tell me
how that pillow had helped them.
And I mean, I sat there and I was good.
I became addicted to it.
I'm helping people.
I was so excited.
Not because I made money
because it helped them,
just like it had helped me.
And I was there.
That's what kept me going.
And then MyPillow,
after that,
you know, when we talk about advertisers,
I have now,
I started that,
you couldn't even advertise MyPillow
if you're a radio host
or anything.
You had to try the product
and believe in it.
If you didn't,
if you had a problem,
you were fit wrong.
There's different lobs.
And then they believe in it.
Then the passion comes through.
A lot of you that have MyPillow,
you know what I'm talking about.
Right?
I mean, they...
And anyway,
so now I'm going to tell you that.
So at the same time, remember,
now we got divorced
in 2007
by then we were making
even though with the shows
we were actually in
a crack addiction taken over,
but remember the 2000
as you got in there with the...
We couldn't afford our mortgage payments.
We were labeling the pillows
in our living room
with magic markers.
And my wife at the time,
she just couldn't take any more.
And she left.
So after 20 years,
I went through a 20-year divorce there.
And then we rolled into 2008
and you'll read this in the book.
The drug dealers in Minneapolis
actually did an intervention on me.
I came out of...
I was in up for 14 days.
I had a warrant out for my arrest
which I was found innocent of.
And in February of 2008,
I walked into about from the bedroom
and there are all three standing there.
And I said,
Ty goes, I go,
what do you guys know each other?
And they go, we do,
but they had never met.
They controlled different parts
of the cities.
And he said,
you've been up for 14 days.
We're cutting you off.
I'm trying to argue.
I've only been up for 10.
And they...
But they're...
I go, what is this?
And he goes, the other two are going,
you're just shaking his head.
He goes, you're cut off.
I said, what is this an intervention?
You go, call it whatever you want.
So two of them leave.
Joe went down to the streets
of Minneapolis and got the word out
which I found out later.
Don't sell to this guy.
And I sat down with Ty,
sitting there.
He goes, how much do you have left?
I'm going to wait you out.
I looked and showed him.
And I had, I don't know,
three, four crack rocks left.
And by 2.30 in the morning,
I was carpet farming, scraping my pipe.
You all don't know what that means,
but it means you're out.
Okay.
It's a bad deal.
Someone's done it before.
Okay.
In my right?
Yes.
Okay.
Yeah.
So when you...
And when you get to that point,
I mean, you're out and you're desperate
for more crack.
I look over and Ty's asleep.
So I snuck down to the streets
of Minneapolis at 2.30 in the morning.
And for one hour,
and they're like bees out there
selling drugs.
Nobody would sell to me.
Nobody.
I went out.
The addicts are very resourceful.
I went blocks out.
Park and Franklin.
I went all over down there.
Nobody would.
And they were like,
these are people that need money.
And they wouldn't sell to me.
You call that a divine thing?
That we're...
I don't care what they told me.
That was unbelievable.
So as we get back up,
and by the way,
I always look like...
use mathematics to prove that God exists.
If you have a one in a million happen
or a one in two million
or one in a billion,
or this is impossible,
when do you put them all together
and consider it a miracle?
And that's the way it was.
I would recognize things
that are mathematically impossible,
which I did even that night,
even in my stupor.
And I get back up there
and Ty's sitting up
and he goes,
how'd that work out for you?
And I go,
so man, he goes,
he goes,
man, he said,
you've been telling us for years
that you're gonna quit someday
and you're gonna come back
and help us all out of this addiction lifestyle we're living.
And he said,
he said,
you're our hope.
We're not gonna let you die on us.
He said,
give me your phone.
And he took a picture.
He said,
this is for that book you tell us
you're gonna write someday.
That's on the cover of my book.
And the picture is the cover of the book.
Two of them work for me now.
They're born in Christians, by the way.
So,
so I wanted to give you that background.
And then,
and then I'm gonna push it forward to
on January 16, 2009.
And I'm gonna tell it
the way the president did five months ago
as I'm sitting in the Oval Office
with Caroline Levin and the President Trump.
And he goes,
we were talking about addiction,
the things we're gonna do in this country
that we have been trying to help the inner cities
and the addicts, the homeless,
and people that have mental issues.
Him and I have been working on this for six years,
the president,
since the opiate bill.
And we worked out with Ben Carson
all across the country.
I've spent millions in the city of Minneapolis,
St. Paul,
Detroit,
and all these things set up,
these things that use private sector money
to help people that need in need.
By the way,
you know that platform I set up?
That's what Keith Ellison is trying to shut down.
I put in all the money.
He doesn't want a Christian platform in our state.
Okay, so here's the president and I
and Caroline sitting there
and the president goes,
Mike, tell Caroline how you quit everything.
And I go, okay.
So I turned to Caroline and I said,
well, on January 16, 2009,
I was an addict.
I said, I was an addict and everything.
Cigarettes were so far down, they didn't even count.
I said there was cocaine, crack, alcohol,
and anyway, I said,
but I knew I had a big calling.
I said, we all have callings.
And I felt like that night
and the way I wrote it in the book,
back when I worked at a drive-in theater,
there'd be a second feature.
And I knew that at that point,
if I waited one more day,
the second feature of my life
would that option would be gone forever.
I knew it would be,
it would just be option A where I was going.
And so, but I had one prayer.
I'm thinking, I'm saying, God,
okay, this sounds horrible to do some big platform thing.
And I thought it was just to get people off addiction
and be, you know, speaking.
I could see myself speaking in churches,
whatever, like I had told my dealers.
And, but I said, you know,
not having to have my own stuff,
it sounds, you know, I'm in my flesh then, right?
I said, I'm going, okay, God, I have a prayer.
I said, I want to wake up in the morning
and never have the desire again for anything,
any of these addictions.
And then I said, and then I woke up in the morning
and they were gone.
And I never looked back.
And the, and the president looked over at Caroline
and goes, can you believe that?
It was perfect.
But you guys, that wasn't,
it was such a radical change.
It was such a radical change.
I thought that's the day I was saved.
I always believed in God,
but I never had the personal relationship
with Jesus Christ until February 18, 2017.
And what did I was freed of that day
was I was freed of the things
that I'd never forgiven myself for,
that God had forgiven me for.
And I came out of there with, it was gone.
All the burden on me, I could speak in front of people.
That was a big thing.
Two months later at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis,
I let him in prayer.
55,000 people at a Christian event.
I'm going, okay, this is not me.
I showed up at that, at the White House.
And well, I'll get to that part.
So anyway, now I'm going to kind of roll into
what you're here for.
I had never voted in my life.
I had never, I didn't know a Democrat
from a Republican.
I didn't know a filibuster from a middle buster.
I didn't think politics mattered at all.
Okay.
When, and then in May of 2015,
I had a dream.
And I get these, you'll read my book, I get these dreams.
And that's why I have stuff in there,
kind of pictures approved for each one that came to fruition.
So if you believe that, you're going to believe Jesus is real, okay?
So, I'm, in May of 2015,
I had a very vivid dream.
And the pictures in the book,
that picture of me and President Trump,
of then, just Donald Trump then,
there were pictures behind us.
And it was such a vivid picture.
And I go, why would I want to meet Donald Trump?
I said, I had never watched The Apprentice.
I think I had lost money in a couple of his casinos.
And, and he, and then the opportunity even came up
at that, at the event I was at.
It was just some big event.
I put millions of dollars by then, you know,
my pillow, myself, we even have a 10% tie to my pillow
that we give it all to the Lord.
And because I put that in our bylaws,
but we had millions and anything happened in the country.
You know, you need this over here.
Here's a million. Here's money over here.
Here's pillows for the hurricane victims,
whatever it would be.
And anyway, the, so I was at this big event.
It was, it was to me, I'm going,
what did I do?
It wasn't everybody did it.
It was, it was this big federation.
Like, oh, I would call the CIA was their directors.
There was FBI, Homeland Security,
and all these different federal,
it's like, I forget what the name it is,
but all these agencies, and there,
it's just a big banquet thing.
And I went in there with Stephen Baldwin.
Okay. And I go, Stephen, I go,
why am I getting an award?
I don't have to talk to you.
He goes, no, you don't have to talk.
And I go, and he goes, but whatever you do,
don't tell him you had issues with crack.
Just say you had addiction issues if it comes up.
I go, I thought you said enough to talk.
And he goes, and he goes, so I get in there.
I get in there.
And remember, I had just had this stream
the night before about Donald Trump.
And I get in there and there's 200 people,
and it's all about me giving me this trophy
for all the charitable work I had done.
And so I get up there.
I blow, blow, blow.
I didn't know what to say.
I was scared to death.
And we get seated at this table,
and there's maybe 12 of us around the table,
and Steven's sitting across from me.
And it's the Department of Homeland Security,
two of their board members or whatever,
or their members, and the couple's here,
and yet the CIA, FBI over here,
this big, huge grocery guy gay,
that Castro is a billionaire guy in New York.
He's sitting next to me.
And anyway, because like me, I didn't like talking,
so I'm going to sit in there,
and I'm going to listen to Steven.
I'm not going to talk, right?
And so all of a sudden this lady goes,
Mike, I read somewhere that you had addiction problems.
I'm with cocaine.
And I go, I look at Steven.
He goes, I go, yes, I did.
I said, I got a story for you for Homeland Security.
I said, I said, so here, so I said,
so then I go, so here I am.
I said, I got my pillows loaded up on a S10 pickup,
piled up in this huge bundle.
And it looked like, kind of looked like a bomb, right?
You know, they're all compressed down.
And I said, so I had a license that was good in 49 states.
It wasn't good in Minnesota,
so I couldn't wait to get to the border of Wisconsin.
I was going down, heading to the middle of Wisconsin
with these pillows.
Actually, and then I go,
and I had all this cocaine on me.
And I said, so as soon as I hit the border,
you know, I'm looking, and of course,
I wasn't speeding, you know, when you pulled over, right?
And I said, and driving along,
I kept seeing this helicopter.
And I look up, and I kept coming by two or three times.
And then I look over in the traffic.
On the other side, the four lane is, there's no traffic.
I look around me and there's no traffic.
I'm going, okay, this is weird.
And I see the helicopter at an angle.
And I said, I get up over the hill
and I said, here's a big roadblock.
Somebody had turned me into Homeland Security
that Obama was being driven down this road in Wisconsin.
So Homeland Security lands, right?
They land and they get out there
and they see their pillows, right?
And now remember, I wasn't on TV then, right?
So, you know, nobody knew who I was.
I'm carrying these pillows.
Spanak reads down.
So they're opening them up
and they're blowing open on the street.
And I said, yeah, it was all a mistake, right?
That there were pillows.
And the lady, she goes, well, what did you do with the cocaine?
I said, I did it.
I seen the movie with the helicopters.
And they go...
And the grocer looks over at me and goes,
you're not like any other CEO we've ever seen.
And we became friends after that.
But anyway, it was just a funny thing
because I'm going, you know, it's just being transparent.
And then all of them just bought into that.
I wasn't afraid to say I was a crack addict,
a former crack addict.
This was a book I had put on
and got to take the American dream
going from here to the depths of hell
to up here, building this huge company
and going out and speaking out for Jesus and everything.
I wasn't ashamed to tell them that.
You know, it seemed like, don't tell you we're an addict.
So now the president comes down the escalator, right?
And announces he's running for president
and then I go, wait a minute,
maybe I do want to meet Donald Trump.
So I go over to Israel that fall
and first trip I'd ever been to Israel
and Tender and I fly over there.
And on the way over, it was actually with Salem Radio
and this Christian guy that we were with,
I started asking him about politics,
what a Democrat was, what a Republican was
and what a conservative and a liberal.
I had no clue.
And he starts telling me,
and it's just like the pastor said,
I couldn't believe everything Holy Common Sense is over here.
It was bizarre.
It's okay to have an abortion over here.
It's okay to do this.
I'm going, what?
Is there any people over here?
I really wondered.
I was blown away by that, right?
It was scary.
I'm going, okay, I'm over here.
And I was even blown away that there was not really a mix.
I remember a Republican running me to endorse
something in New York City in 2018, this lady.
I go, no, I'm not endorsing you.
I said, you're pro-choice.
She goes, no, no, no, I'm right in the middle, Mike.
I said, what do you have?
Kill a baby?
I said, I mean, it was insane.
I go, are you nuts?
I will never change me.
And this actually happened in my debates here in Minnesota.
One of the first couple I went to,
they come up to me and they go, Mike,
now if you want to win,
you're going to have to pull in some to the left,
from the left here.
And you know, we are abortion laws here in Minnesota.
You know, we're not going to change them.
But what you can do is just go kind of halfway down here
so you can go like three months.
I said, are you out of your mind?
I will never, ever give up my morals
and my Christian values.
Ever.
To get a vote.
To get somebody's vote.
That's why God is here in the first place, everybody.
Giving in to what God's put us here for.
To give up, to get a vote.
That's why you have all these uniparty people.
When you say Republicans,
I've had more problems with Republicans
in the last five years
than all the Democrats put together, believe it or not.
I've been blocked by states like Alabama, Missouri,
Arkansas is one of the worst ones right now.
Sarah Sanders, Huckabee.
Okay.
Blocking us to get to paper,
ballot, hand counted.
Common sense.
Wow, you check a legal, you check an ID on game day?
Are you kidding me?
See, you can't make this up.
You need an ID to shovel snow
in New York, two IDs.
You don't need an ID to vote.
What does this come to?
It's insane.
So anyway, then...
So the meeting with...
We go all the way through into 16.
Then the president becomes, obviously,
the nominee up against Hillary.
And now this is the end of July.
Or maybe July 20th or whatever.
And I was leaving,
going to California
to finish filming a movie that I had paid for.
And I was in called Church People.
You can all see that.
It's free up on Lindell TV.
I put all my movies up there free on plan.
All of them.
So I'm flying and I get up in the air.
And back then,
you had to get to 10,000 feet in the plane.
It's changed now,
but you had to get to 10,000 feet
to get your phone on the internet.
And I had a new phone and I had it set to ding
if I got it.
I was waiting for some important emails
for this movie thing.
So I wanted to set an alert if I got an email, right?
I just changed my phone to that,
but I bought a magazine in the store
caught my eye.
I'm in Donald Trump.
So we get up to 10,000 feet.
I set my phone.
I opened this magazine.
I'm in the bullcat with this foreigner.
He couldn't speak English.
And I'm right in the bullcat
in front of the plane.
And I opened the magazine and I shut it.
And I was just out of frustration.
It's almost the end of July.
I said, God, if I'm supposed to meet Donald Trump,
I said, I need to know.
I need to know right now.
At that moment in time, my phone dinged.
And dinged, I looked at the email,
Mike, this is Donald Trump.
Will you meet me in New York City at Trump Tower?
I'm going, God! God!
And I'm almost in tears.
Not because I'm going to meet Donald Trump,
because God answered me in real time.
The flight attendant, the flight attendant's going,
are you okay?
I said, yes, it's a miracle.
It's a miracle.
And the foreigner over here
speaking a language I don't understand.
No, it's okay.
It's okay.
I'm fluent in Domino.
It's okay.
I don't think he's going to understand.
But it's great.
Anyway, that meeting comes to fruition
on August 15th of 2016.
This is in the book.
And I remember at three in the morning
overlooking
Tom Tower, that was Central Park.
And there's Central Park.
It's 3 a.m.
Kendra had went to her room to bed.
And my meeting said 10 a.m.
and I just almost started crying
on the thing going, God, what?
I felt like, why am I...
Why are you doing this?
What is this?
I didn't know, but I said, why me?
I felt so unworthy, but yet humbled.
I'm going, I don't understand.
I'll do everything I can do.
But I just felt...
Then I was afraid to sleep.
And if something happened,
I figured it would change the course.
So I'm going, I mean,
I had every alarm so you could imagine.
Six wake-up calls from the front.
Yes, I'm up.
Yes, I'm up.
And I get over there to Tom Tower.
And right away they told me
this was about, I was there about
quarter, 20 after nine.
And there's six of them
are going to bring me up.
And I had been told,
you're never going to meet them alone.
And whatever you do,
don't tell them you were a crack addict.
That was the two things.
I'm going, well, my dream, I was alone.
You're not meeting them alone.
Okay, okay.
Well, we get up there
to his floor.
We're all six standing there.
And now it gets to be about
five to ten.
And Eric Trump, I had never met him before.
He comes walking out and he grabs you two
and you need to come with me.
Two of them are gone.
Now you're down to four.
This person here, if someone grabbed this person,
you were down to three.
I forget the other one just walked away.
I don't think he was going to be part of the meeting.
And then the other one had to go
do something.
He says, I'll be right back.
And now we're down to one guy.
And it's ding, it's ten o'clock.
His phone rings at that exact moment.
And he's like this.
And it must have been a real important call
because he's going just a second.
And he's like this.
Now the night, the two nights before,
I was at this event,
which I shouldn't have even been there.
And it was just a miracle I was even there.
And I met two people at that event
that I could talk to, the rest I couldn't talk to.
Because of that fear of talking.
And that was Rudy Giuliani
and Ron Agraff, which was the president's
longtime secretary he had had for 30 years.
So I had met them that Saturday night,
two days before this meeting.
The most divine appointment you'd ever seen.
So I'm like this.
And from here to that door,
Ron sees me and she comes running up.
She says, Mike, you don't have to wait for him.
Come on.
She brings me all the way back down around the corner.
He says, he's back over there.
Go ahead.
And she walks away.
So that whole room's empty except for me and the president,
just like I seen.
And I walked up to him and I said,
and it was like talking to a brother,
like a kindred spirit.
It was amazing.
There were no nervousness.
He says, Mike, you always wear your cross.
You're a Christian.
I said, yes, Mr. Trump.
And this is the divine appointment.
And we start talking and he said,
he wants to know how, you know,
how it is you're making your product here.
And he says, how is that going?
And he was asking me from Minnesota,
this ex-addict and asking me my opinion on stuff.
And then I get into it.
But not even two minutes into it, I said,
you know, I used to be a crack addict.
I put it right out there.
And I go, and I'm going to have this network called
the Lindell Recovery Network that's going to save millions
of people and bring them from out of addiction
to Jesus Christ.
And he looked at me and he said,
that's what the illicit is trying to shut down, by the way.
It's free.
So anyway, he looked at me and he goes,
and I'm going to stop the drugs pouring in.
We're in this crisis we have.
So it was two businessmen talking.
But more than that, it was friends.
It was like a media.
And we were talking and it went on for 40 minutes.
And he said, Mike, I said,
I got to do a speech in Ohio.
I haven't even looked at it yet.
And I go, so I took that as to leave, right?
So I get up and turn to leave.
I still don't have that picture.
I take two steps and Rudy Giuliani,
who I've seen Saturday, comes walking around
the corner singing to my pillow jingle,
for the best night's sleeping over.
And I said, Rudy, are you following me?
And then that made us all sit down again.
And what we talked about there was so important.
Because that was one of the four things
that God had given me to let him know.
And I let him know that.
I've never said what it is,
but believe me, it came to fruition.
And then we go to leave.
And Rudy takes that picture of me in the present.
You'll see it in the book.
That picture exactly what I've seen in my dream.
Now I get back to Minnesota before I left there.
And now I'm going to push through this.
When I get back to Minnesota,
remember, I was the media star.
But before we left New York,
my wife and our wife to be at the time,
we wouldn't talk to his employees.
I mean, Jan, there's anyone we've found.
I go, how long have you worked for him?
Is he like this?
I couldn't believe it.
He goes, best man, best boss.
And they all had a story,
how he had done something for them personally
to help them.
With no strings down, no nothing.
And I'm going, wow,
you can learn a lot about the man
with the knowing by his employees.
And believe me, I've had guns to my head.
I've had swords to my throat,
owning them bars.
I had to read people like you wouldn't believe
in situations.
And I read him and my wife's going,
he didn't have an agenda when he talked to me.
There was no agenda.
He didn't ask for money.
He wanted my opinion of what we were doing
and he really,
his care came through his transparency.
You can't hide that to me.
So here I am, a first hand,
which, you know, knowledge of everything
that I believe this man is.
So I come back to Minnesota
to tell everybody,
hey, this guy's going to be really good.
I've never been a president before,
but I'll be Honolulu.
It's going to be awesome, right?
So...
So I get back here
and I go to do a press release
to tell the media,
and remember I was the media's darlin'.
I could walk across the street
and the Star and Tribune,
which they never took to do
in all the horrible newspaper,
the Star and Tribune,
ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN,
Fox, it don't matter.
They would just,
whoosh, for me,
Mike, how many veterans
are you hiring today?
Boy, you just gave a million dollars
to the Salvation Army down here.
Mike, you hired all these people,
these ex addicts,
who've given them second chances for life.
All these people that need help.
And that would be reported.
It was the American dream.
And I wasn't doing that.
Right now, do you know,
the last five years,
we've gave away millions of dollars
when my pillow didn't have any with our tide.
We gave it away,
but the media doesn't tell you that.
I don't care it was us to give it away.
I never asked for that attention
in the first place back then.
Sean Hannity on Hurricane Harvey once,
he called me up for something else
and he goes,
what are you doing?
I said, I'm going to Texas.
I said, we're giving away
two million dollars for the pillows
and even more if it takes for the hurricane.
He goes, well, let's talk about that.
I said, I don't have time to come on.
He said, well, the people need to know.
I said, Sean, I gotta do this.
But he announced it on Fox.
You won't believe that, you know,
you think Fox will talk about me now?
I got shirts that say,
don't go Fox on me.
You know, they won't talk to me
other than I take that back on Monday night there.
The Fox local here in Minnesota
actually reported that I was running for governor.
What a miracle.
So anyway, so then as we...
I do that press release.
I do the press against my boards.
My boards go, we're going to lose
half our customers.
I go, I didn't remember.
I didn't know anything about politics.
Why would I lose half my customers?
Because I think this guy would be a good candidate.
I don't even care what party he's in.
You know, I didn't at that time.
I'm going, okay, I know I fell over here
with a Republican because of the belief system.
But I said he would be a good president
for the people in my mind.
I don't care who you are of people.
You know, and that's the way I looked at it.
And I go, you guys, everybody should want to know this.
I don't care what party you're in.
If everybody knew this guy, they'd all vote for him.
In fact, I always tell the president,
I told it all the way from eight years ago.
I always text him.
I said, remember, Mr. President, everybody loves you.
Some just don't know it yet.
I said that to him all the time.
So anyway, I get to...
Oh, so I did that press release.
I put the press release out
and I've never been so shocked in my life.
I said the Starn Tribune, two things down.
It was the biggest attack at that time ever seen.
Now it was a minor attack compared to the last five years.
That was nothing. That was training wheels.
I mean, that was, you know, but what happened was
they came out the Starn Tribune.
They left it.
One of the second comments down
and their big thing they did was,
Mike Lindell was the biggest drug dealer
Minneapolis ever had.
And my dealer has even stuck up.
Mike never dealt a drug in his life.
He tried to rid Minneapolis of drugs by doing them all.
Seriously.
I mean, people flooded in to the Starn Tribune going,
he never dealt a drug.
Now, I had to get a lawyer going,
this is horrible.
I'm never going to miss something. I'm not.
You know, and I'm going.
So anyway, and I thought that would hurt your...
And I thought that's really, that's hurtful
because people would say, well, Mike made his money
dealing drugs or something.
You see how they can destroy somebody?
You know, I never gave away...
I gave away a lot of drugs.
If you want something from me,
I'm not going to charge you
even if we're splitting an eight-ball
or whatever it was.
You know, you're getting it.
I ain't charging.
I ain't making no money on this.
And anyway, the...
So, and then what happened then?
So then I go, you know what?
Why does there so much hate for this guy?
You know, I met him.
And I said, I met him.
And I was taking even some of these reporters
that would come to me that were doing hit jobs.
I was friends with them.
I'm going, how dare you do this?
You write this on me.
I said, what is your boss?
Or you?
I said, you can't be...
This was so-and-so writer.
I said, you know who I am.
I said, don't you trust me?
I got to meet the guy.
I'm just saying what my opinion...
I'm not going to lie.
And it was disgusting.
Then if you all remember when I went all in,
the Better Business Bureau,
which started in the state of Minnesota,
took their darling company, MyPillow,
and no complaints in history,
was their flagship product for the Better Business Bureau.
And they took us from A plus to an F.
Do y'all remember that?
The biggest attack, they did it for publicity.
They did it to take MyPillow down.
And they said, I ran my ads too long.
When I met with them on Lakeville, Minnesota,
I go, what do you mean I ran my ads too long?
And I go, you're your own manufacturer,
so you're setting your retail price
and then your sale price.
I said, that's how we track it on promo codes.
And I said, I said, everything has that Walmart.
Here's retail price. Here's our sale.
And they go, but Mike, you're your own manufacturer.
And I go, so if I bought the stuff in China,
and I said, and here's the real, here's the regular price.
And then I got the sale price.
I said, I'll be okay.
She said, yes.
I got up from that meeting,
and there was 20 of them.
They're bored from the Better Business Bureau,
the nation in Lakeville.
And I said, you should all be ashamed of yourself.
I said, you're all disgusting.
I said, I'll keep that up.
I'll keep that up.
That's just fantastic.
And I said, all you that wanted a picture of me
when you came here, because they all did,
I said, you're a bunch of hypocrite phonies
for you to come here.
I mean, it was disgusting.
And so I walked out of there,
and I never looked back.
It's still enough, by the way.
But the customers knew that it was a bunch of garbage.
You had watched, you had grew up with my pillow.
And you've seen me.
I'm the same person on TV.
That's why people thought they were live ass.
I did those ad-lib.
When I did my first one, they go,
this guy's the worst guy I've ever seen on TV.
He'll never make it.
You know, but then that was.
I had an audience the first time.
They filmed a commercial, a live audience,
and I was so afraid.
And then we brought out a table
and threw away the teleprompter,
and I was okay.
So I'm standing in front of this.
No, I'm just kidding.
Okay.
So now, you guys, it goes all the way through.
I became very political.
I'm going, I started to see how politics
affects everything.
Even addiction.
At that time, the president and I were working on,
when he worked on the opiate bill.
I didn't have his number then,
but I was invited in for these key things.
One was the $6 billion opiate bill.
And I get there, and the secular treatment centers
were arguing with the faith-based treatment centers.
Everybody was arguing, who's going to get the money?
Well, the faith-based, your teen challenges,
your salvation, armies, your union,
any gospel, 85% success rate.
Your secular centers, you ready?
5%.
Okay.
Are you out of insurance?
Okay, you got to go.
You're cured.
Really?
I still feel terrible inside.
And they're waiting for something to happen.
It's a ticking time, mom.
Oh, Uncle Ray died.
Can you blame him?
He went back to drinking.
They expect it like it's a country song
going backwards.
Oh, my kids are going to love me again.
My truck's going to start.
My cat's going to come home.
It doesn't work like that.
And so anyway, the president's sitting there and he goes,
here's a common sense president.
He goes, I don't care if your curriculum says
you got to climb a coconut tree.
And if it shows a 50% or more success rate,
you get the money.
Well, you guys, he just gave all the money to Jesus.
You found that?
And then I'm going to skip ahead to one thing.
I'm going to say one of my solutions here in our state
is the annex and everything.
And one of the things is the faith-based centers,
there should be nothing better than putting funds
towards us, the faith-based treatment centers,
your salvation, because they can go horizontal.
And they tried it in Minnesota.
It was the first state they tried it in
to get funds.
They asked Minnesota, of all the welfare programs
we had, okay, at the front.
This one, everybody should get behind.
But they asked for money.
And you know what the state said?
We'll give you money, but you can't talk about God.
That's what they said.
And Teen Challenge said, okay, we got to have it.
Success rate dropped like a rock in the short-term program.
So that's been...
Okay, so now I'm going to tell you...
I'm going to tell you...
I'm going to get up to...
I'm going a little longer than that,
but I'm going to finish this part
because I want to tell you the miracles that came along.
So when I was growing up
and it got to be...
Do you all remember the famous picture of Richard Nixon
and Elvis Presley?
Do you all remember that picture?
Well, I'm the biggest Elvis fan there is.
And back in those days, my first concert was
Elvis Presley right in Bloomington, Minnesota.
But I was maybe 12, 13 years old
when that picture came out.
And so here I am, this huge Elvis fan.
But all I seen when I seen that picture was,
wow, I'm never going to meet a president
because you have to be Elvis Presley
to be able to see a president.
It wasn't the other way around.
It wasn't the other way around.
And that picture never got out of my head.
Of course, then when I had stuff in the 80s,
all the stuff that I did with the DWIs
and all the stuff you read about in the book,
I thought, man, they're never going to let me
within 10 feet of a White House or something.
Well, then here it is.
In 2017, the president invited me
and these other companies
to the White House for this manufacturer summit.
There was 12 of us.
And as I'm walking into the White House,
going, wow, this is surreal.
The second picture on the way in
was Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon.
And I'm going, whoa.
So I'm hitting this like I knew it was like
this divine things happen.
And I sit down and it's surreal.
You can't even imagine how I felt.
You know, it was...
Now, I can say it's surreal.
Now, remember I had only met the president
up front that one time a couple of times
and where he had like...
There was only time I met him.
Well, no, I met him one time before that.
But so it's only two times for just a few minutes.
So anyway, other than the big meeting.
So here we go...
I go, who's sitting here? Everybody else is sitting there.
The president is. He wanted to sit by you.
And I go, really?
So here they come in.
And this is back when they put stuff all over the TV.
He go live, I don't know,
30 million, 50 million people.
It goes live on all the stations
and all you see is me and the president.
Now, all my friends at home,
a lot of them still addicts are going,
what is this crack addict doing
sitting next to the president?
Jesus is real because
this would be impossible.
And they all quit crack that day.
No, I don't know that part.
A lot of them did. A lot of them because
I've led the way that they have quit.
Many of my friends have quit forever
because I showed them hope.
In my book, you're going to have hope matches.
And these hope that I had was a friend of mine
that for three years
he walked into my room in 2008
a month before I quit.
He walked in, the house is empty.
I lost that house and another house
and then my kids and we lost everything.
And I'm staring at the ceiling
and he comes walking in.
I hadn't seen him in three years.
And he was kind of my match
in every way. Both got to cocaine,
almost functioning addicts, families,
everything was very similar.
And I hadn't seen him in three years.
And he came walking in out of the blue.
I didn't even know how he found me.
I go, Dick, what are you doing?
He goes, I'm asking you what you're doing.
He goes, what's going on?
And I knew he had quit and found the Lord.
I had heard that. And I said,
I said, Dick, first question I asked him.
I said, is it boring?
And he goes, no man, it ain't boring.
Now to this day
I don't know if it's because he's not using
or because he found Jesus.
And he said, I've asked him.
He goes, both. But the main one is Jesus.
So anyway,
now I'm going to fast forward.
Like I said, I was saved.
These things kept happening to me.
That's what actually got me saved.
I said, this is impossible
that I'm here sitting next to a president
with my background,
with my past.
And God keeps showing me.
He kept chasing me. I said, show me more.
That was a one in a triple trillion
impossible the day I'm sitting in that White House
with my past.
And you'll read that in the book.
And then I get invited to
the Philippines, another divine appointment.
I'm not going to get into that.
We're involved in addicts.
And they said to Dirty was gotten into a big fight with Obama.
I'm there at a Christian event.
And
before I got saved, I would always preach
to people about God.
I read about Revelation when I was in jail.
You ought to hear about it.
And they'd find the Lord.
And I would take that.
But anyway,
we get
on February 18, 2017
I went into this.
It was for veterans. It was called
it's like a retreat thing.
But I wasn't a veteran. I was just invited
because they wanted me to be there.
And I said, okay, I'll go.
And my wife
to be at the time
we prayed that I wanted what she had.
I knew she had something. She'd always said,
well, yeah, I believe in God.
And I said, but I want someone that she had.
She had this like personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
And I
I went in there with hope.
And on the second day is when I gave my life to the Lord.
And I had the forgiveness.
And it was just that people asked,
how do you go through all these attacks
in the last five years?
It's God. That's it.
That's it. And I'm going to tell you now.
I'm going to go through
I'll say, I know I'm going a little long.
You guys okay with that?
Okay.
So in the
2020 election happens.
Okay. And I'm going to tell you
the first miracle
happened on the first night of the election.
It happened at three in the morning.
Okay. And here's why.
You look back now
and I called it then.
Every bad thing that happened,
once I got into January, they were all good things.
If they predicted
the cheat right
on the algorithms, I always compared
to a casino skimming.
I used to be a professional card counter too.
And a casino
that was skim, the mafia skim
to casino. You can't just skim
the crap stable.
You can't just skim one game.
You have to skim everything,
even the food, because everything is
related. Do you follow me?
You don't sell $10 million worth of food
and you only took in two grand.
Numbers are all related.
I took calculus in eighth grade.
I know numbers.
That's one of the gifts God's given me is the numbers.
Improbable numbers,
sequences, you name it. That's my gift
he's given me.
So I'm looking at this just like I do
at my pillow every day. I look at all
of these different
radio stations and stuff. Hey, this one did
10 times good. I said no.
Something had to happen to make that
number go up or make that go down.
So, and when this
happened at that night,
they didn't predict their baseline.
They predicted Donald Trump would
only get 67 million votes.
And a lot of that was because problems
with the polls, because nobody would say on the
phone who they're really voting for.
So their polls were all off. Everything, right?
If they had predicted right,
they needed to predict about 74
million. He really got close to 80 million.
Okay, now here's what happened.
As it went on, they're running out
of steel, okay, with the computers.
They're running out. He would
have won Wisconsin,
Arizona, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, and
Pennsylvania, all the five states.
Georgia and Georgia.
Those five states, he would have won anyway.
So, er,
they got to stop.
It's going to come up a little later. They had to stop.
Now you have to steal
where it's going to expose yourself.
You're caught.
You didn't plan your heist big enough.
So now you're going to get caught.
And they all stopped at the same time.
Odds are one zillion, zillion to one.
It's never happened in history before
where our election wasn't done like this.
It's crazy.
The gaming, the
the prerogative, the gambling
predictors in Vegas.
My friend at bed in all these states
is going to win them all.
All of a sudden, two hours later,
you know, that's impossible.
It's impossible.
It's like the Vikings, when they won the odds
of them winning that game against.
I think it was Indianapolis, the biggest comeback
in history and football.
The odds were 99.
One in every football game ever played
in history.
Someone's got to be the first, right?
So this is what this was, improbable odds.
Impossible.
Some of them impossible.
Most of them improbable because you're going,
they're going, well, this could be happened.
It's a one in a trillion, but it could.
It's like when O.J. got off.
Okay, they split it apart.
The shoes itself,
the odds of the shoe was one in two billion.
Well, you know it could happen.
So then you go to the next thing.
We add them together. He's guilty.
I mean, come on.
So anyway, you got things in the middle of the night.
They stopped Georgia.
I mean, they stopped them all.
And in Michigan, they go
106 votes come down,
6,000 for Biden in the middle of the night
and 3,000 for Donald Trump.
What was the lie they told us all?
Those darn mail-in votes, those inner city.
Well, there's a big problem with that.
In Michigan, the mail-in votes were counted
on the morning of the 3rd, not in the middle of the night on the 4th.
In Pennsylvania, they had more votes than voters.
And they still do.
It can't make it up.
But you guys, if it would have been overturned then,
as we rolled into December 14th,
now I had went and started buying voter rolls around the country.
I get to Wisconsin and I'm going,
12,000 some people voted in Wisconsin didn't live there.
A lot of them said they were in Minnesota.
I'm going, people are genuinely good people.
I just couldn't believe going,
hey you guys, let's take 5,000 of us
and hop into Wisconsin, come in a little crime
and vote for Biden. Who's with me?
I'd be just in that one movie.
I'd look around and nobody's with me.
Period.
You know the movie.
So anyway,
and then you had,
so as I see these,
now we get up to,
I knew it had to be computers,
but we get up to January 4th,
and I was down in Georgia.
Remember the two senator runoff?
I sat and prayed.
I was with the president, 80,000 people
were trying to get one senator to save the Senate.
And then it hit me and I prayed,
God please have them steal both these senators.
And you're going, why would you do that?
Because here's why. I'm a marker.
The president and I talk about this all the time.
I'm a marker. If I was the evil's marker,
that's what he always says.
Mike, if you're the marker, what would you do?
I said, here's what I would have done.
I would have said, give them back a senator.
We still have a bunch of corrupt Republicans,
so they shut up about this election.
If they'd have gave back one senator,
we wouldn't be here talking about the election.
Everyone would have went, hey, we still have the Senate.
Let's campaign harder in 2022.
You can't campaign harder than our president did.
I was with them.
I'm going to have the second biggest campaign
in history and ministry, at least that's what I tell him.
I'm just going to be the second biggest ever, sir.
So he's the first.
But I'm using his model, though.
But anyway, so they obviously, they took them both.
And you remember where you were then?
You're going, now what?
Maybe there was fraud.
Maybe there was fraud.
We got to check this out.
Of course there was.
And now you're going to everyone that wasn't doing anything
and speaking out.
And everybody tried.
A lot of people tried.
But they put up false information.
False information.
And they shadow banned us.
Then come the two most important dates
that I believe ever.
We wouldn't be here if it wouldn't be for these two dates.
And what happened on January 7th and 8th,
1.2 million Americans were de-platformed.
Of Vimeo, YouTube, Suckabuck's Facebook,
and Jack Dorsey's Twitter.
Parler, the only competition that the conservative Christian
to build, was wiped off the face of the earth.
The president lost 100 million followers on Twitter alone.
Our voice was gone.
Anyone else that thought about talking was scared.
Why?
Because of January 6th.
It was eerily silence everywhere.
Everywhere, on social media, everything.
And here's what I compare it to.
When I was growing up, we had black and white TVs.
As kids, we turned them off and go down to a little tiny dot.
This little blue-white dot.
And right before the dot went out,
we would turn it back on.
That would come back to life.
And that dot was our voice.
And if that dot would have went out, it's over.
It's over, everybody.
But it didn't go out.
As we sit here right now, we have the biggest voice
the world has ever seen.
Why?
Because in five years, we now have 14 social media platforms,
including mine.
Vocal, which is a sister to Lindell TV.
Y'all got to go to vocal.com.
VOCL, it's an app store.
This is how I'm going to communicate with every senate district in this state.
I've set up teams in every single place in Minnesota.
And this is how we're going to be communicating.
But there's 14 apps.
Everyone's doing a podcast.
Remember, our media, the Fox News,
on February 4th of 2021, Smartmatic sued Fox News.
The first time law fear had been used like that since 1792 in our country.
And they hammered it.
They hammered me. They hammered my pillow.
Anybody that spoke out any news outlet.
But they went after Fox, Newsmax,
where you got 95% of your information from,
they became weather channels that won't report hurricanes or tornadoes.
Nobody has been on Fox News until the president in the summer of 24.
He wasn't even allowed on.
I'm never allowed back, probably.
It's surprising that they let me play my commercials that long.
So anyway, so there's silence.
So as we roll through,
and I'm going to get this up and I will tell you about my campaigns.
So these five years, if you all remember,
when I was at the Rose Garden in 2019 before the virus,
the president had me up there in 2020.
It was in the spring of 2020.
And I got to speak from the Rose Garden.
And I said, a nation had turned its back on God.
We had taken God out of the schools.
And I said, we need to get back in the word,
back in our Bibles and get back with our families and pray for God's grace.
And over the last four years, people kept coming up to me in 22 and 21.
Everywhere I would go in this country, and I went everywhere.
I put it when I still had my plane.
Before I ran, I flew everywhere talking to people,
legislatures, secretary of states, attorney generals, everybody I could.
Here's what happened. Here's what's happened.
Alabama, John Merrill, here's what happened in your state.
He charged me $42,000 for his voter rolls.
I said, John, 4,662 people voted in Alabama that are over 110 years old, some 150.
And he looked at me and he goes, well, Mike, we live pretty good here in Alabama.
Well, as we said, I laugh like that, too.
You know what he did? This is a person, a people of deviation.
This is a unit party, rotten Republican that's with the unit party.
He bought more machines than doubled down.
It's disgusting. But anyway, people would come up to me and they go,
Mike, this doesn't feel like grace.
And I said, oh, but it is.
I said, we are the best times in history to be alive.
And I said, and here's the same speech I gave to the president.
This was early in 24. We're sitting there just him and I.
And at the desk, we're talking like we're usually doing.
He goes, Mike, they're just destroying the country.
And I said, sir, remember, he had like, I don't know, three, four indictments by then.
Every time he got indicted, he'd get more votes piling his bucket.
Anyway, I said, sir, I said, God uses it.
I said, God's given us grace.
If you'd have been put back in back then, we'd have lost the country forever.
If I'd have been their marketer, I said, get him back in there.
We'll keep attacking him till he's out.
And boom, we keep boiling my goldfish.
And we'll tell him socialism is good until he's out.
And then we'll just hammer it, just like they did.
Because evil is greedy. Our biggest advantage, everybody, is evil is greedy.
Okay, so here I'm telling the president, I go, sir,
all these bad things are actually good things.
He looks at me and goes, they don't feel like good things.
And I go, here's why.
I said, there's two buckets.
There's your bucket.
This is the new party of common sense.
The common sense, which we need in Minnesota.
We are the tip of the spear for common sense.
It's gone. We led the charge.
When I said we took out of the schools and got out of the country,
it started here in Minnesota.
Look at the Islam and the Muslims.
We've got to ban Sharia law. This is disgusting.
So anyway, here we are.
I go, sir, this bucket is your bucket.
People are pouring in. I'm not talking about the party.
I'm talking about the people.
I have Democrat friends, liberal friends, conservative friends.
And I said, the more they're attacking,
the more these nonsensical things are going on.
Men and women's sports, you can cut up.
The schools can take your kids and cut them up.
This is insane.
And the parents are taking out of the picture in our schools.
And I said, sir, they know what you stand for.
And they're jumping in this bucket.
I said, you might not even have to campaign.
You might end up with more votes than voters like Pennsylvania.
I said, hey, hi. And I said, and then I gave it.
And I said, besides, remember everybody loves you.
Tom just don't know it yet.
And so this bucket, I said, the other bucket
is the bucket for our learned savior, Jesus Christ.
I said, that bucket, sir,
people don't look to God when things are going good.
Just like, sir, when you had December of 2019,
the highest consumer confidence in history.
Did you all know that?
The economy.
Even if you started it with no forks in the street,
which I say in my book,
or you're a forefork or way up here,
even with foreforks, everybody in between,
no matter where you started,
economically, your lives had improved.
That's a fact.
And that was the one time in history that it built up.
And that's in spite of all its attacks.
But then when it stopped it, the virus.
They picked it.
Here's the China virus. Have a nice day.
So anyway, I said,
they look to God when things are going bad.
I said, these last four years
actually things are going on.
It's opening people's eyes.
I said, the people over here that thought they had God,
the churches, by the way,
they let us down.
Maybe it woke them up the last four years.
I hope it has.
Because it has to.
This is what I'm doing.
I'm going around Minnesota.
I'm going to get the churches engaged.
The people.
Johnson and I don't even know who Johnson was.
You know, give me a break.
It's disgusting.
That's how they just strive.
The devil tries to keep us down.
So I tell the president, I said,
people are pouring in.
We're in the biggest revival for Jesus Christ in history.
And I looked at him and I said,
sir, and besides sir,
if I'm wrong with believers,
we all go to heaven.
It's a win-win.
And then he looked.
And then he looks.
And he looks at me and he goes,
but Mike.
He goes, I just don't.
He goes, it's getting damaged.
And I don't know if we get it all fixed in four years.
And I looked at him and I said,
sir, with God, all things are possible.
And him working through you,
you'll get it done faster and better
than anyone.
And he looked at me and he goes,
yeah, that's right.
Sir, sir, sir.
God bless him.
He is amazing in me.
And I'll tell you what.
So now I told him last August,
you know, when he won,
I was attacked by the medium worse than ever.
The attacks never let up on my pill,
the most attack company in history
because I did something.
I went out about our fraud in our elections.
And one of my ads against Amy Klobuchar
is going to be this.
I want you to see what you think of it.
Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lindell
come to a historical agreement.
I'd click on that, right?
To see if it was fake.
Would you all click on it?
So you click on it.
And it says, in 2018 and 19,
Mike Lindell and Amy locked arms
against all the machines to get rid
of the machines in this country.
Did you all know Amy Klobuchar
was the biggest voice in the country?
No one was even close to Amy.
She took all the Democrats.
And she named the machine companies
without getting sued.
What a concept.
She named them all.
By the way, we have all three of them
in Minnesota where one of the few states
would have all three.
When I win the primary,
we have access to the source code.
We're going to make Minnesota this election
and Minnesota the safest it can be
with the cards were dealt.
That's what they were going to do.
But Amy now,
what did Amy do since she voiced
the loudest voice against the fraud
with the elections?
And what did Mike Lindell do?
Well, Mike Lindell
went and spent $80 million
borrowed another ten,
spent everything he has in the world
to stop the fraud
to help save our country.
What did Amy do since then?
She ignored this fraud.
She went to Washington
and got $25 billion
to bring into Minnesota
only have it stolen by fraud.
To have it stolen by fraud.
Not a good steward of your money, Amy.
I can't wait for that.
I can't wait for it later.
Amy and I, we go back
and I'll say it's going to be fun
going after her.
So now I'm going to tell you
when I told the president last August
I said, sir, I said,
I bring him my stuff we talk about.
We have a list of stuff I'll bring up concerns
to the country, to people.
And we talked in the office
and out of the blue I just turned to him.
I said, and I'm considering running
for governor of Minnesota.
And for the first time
he was kind of speechless.
He's thinking of Waltz, right?
Vice president.
And he goes, and I said, I don't want an answer.
I'm not asking for anything.
I said, I just wanted to tell you ahead of time
because I said, Kendra and I have to pray for it.
Pray about it.
He knows my wife well.
He prays for him with the whole time.
And he goes, I said, we need to pray about it.
And I said, another thing that has to happen
is I said, my pillow
has to finally get secure
after two and a half years of attacks.
And I said, if they're not secure,
I can't leave them as I have guided them
through this most like bombs
and shoot in a boat every day
that you can't even fathom.
And I said, if that happens,
because I said, when I go into something,
I go 100% all in.
And I want to be 100%.
So we prayed to God.
We kind of threw out like a fleece in the Bible.
If you get my pillow secure, I'm running.
I know that's your will.
And shortly after Thanksgiving,
early December,
I was given that my pillow was secure.
And I called up the president.
And I said, and he didn't answer.
He always answered personally,
but he was a little later,
so he's already in the old lobs.
I text him and I said, sir,
I really need to talk to you.
It's really important.
So he gets back on the phone,
two seconds he goes, he goes,
what is it?
He goes, I got to go into this thing.
And I said, I am going to run for governor.
I didn't want you to hear about it in news.
And 40 minutes later,
okay, he's going, hey,
I'll be there in a minute.
And what did he do in that call?
It was a call I'll never forget.
It was like an encouraging call
like you would be a mentor.
He goes, Mike,
when I came down that elevator
and God chose me for such a time as this,
which I've told him so many times, right?
He's telling me, he goes,
you running for governor.
He goes, you got one shot.
I picked you.
I'm going, wow,
I'm getting the same thing took back to me.
It was just surreal.
It was surreal.
I'm going, and I said,
and he says, I got you back.
And now, and then it says,
well, why didn't you ask him
for your endorsement first?
Here's why.
He would have done it as a friend.
I didn't want that.
I want to be endorsed
and I wanted all of you to know
I'm doing it because I want to win.
We have to win.
I'm going to be done
based on merit
of what I've learned so far.
He spent four years learning
what he was going to do
in these last four,
in these next four years.
I've spent the last year
going around Minnesota
meeting with farmers, teachers,
inner city.
You name it.
Meet with them all.
What are the problems you have?
And then, and then now
I have the fixes lined up,
which I can tell you real quick,
some about at least five.
But once something happened,
as we rolled into,
I got Rick from my campaign manager
and Larry and all of this
whole great team came on.
And we get this team
and they come on.
I didn't know a thing about campaigning.
I did nothing other than
helping the president.
It was pretty easy
to go around and tell people,
you know, here's where we're at.
It was great doing rallies
and events and town halls.
I did with them and fundraiser.
So I did.
In the meantime,
I got a parallel track
meeting all the politicians.
By the way,
there's only two secretariat states
in this country
that I would even let
and not my house.
And one of them I haven't met.
I just heard he might be okay.
That's how bad our elected officials
are within the secretariat states.
Turning generals,
he got about 10 that are good.
I mean, there's hope.
But the secretary of states,
the worst.
Remember, they control our elections too.
So anyway,
so we start campaigning.
And I'm going,
what are we doing?
So the first thing is
the money's pouring into me.
Money's pouring in
because people want to help me
with the national,
my national presence, right?
And the money starts pouring in,
but yet we got to go around
to these,
these meetings
to get the GOP endorsement.
And so we,
I would go to these meetings
and there'd be the other candidates
and I'd get like three minutes
to talk
or four minutes.
And I'm going,
okay,
I got Lisa Damoth over here going,
you know,
by the way,
a week later the fraud came out.
When the fraud came out,
by the way,
the biggest blessing this state has had
in a long, long time.
And if you can't see that as a blessing,
the 2020 election
was probably the biggest election blessing in history
because it opened people's eyes.
We were done.
If we went to bed that night,
if they predicted right,
we would have all woke up in the morning,
Biden would have won,
all the counting would have been in by 1 a.m.
and we'd have woke up
and you know what we just said to everybody,
we just said, you know,
we did it to ourselves,
we let them take God out of our schools
and then we had turned it back on God,
all of our children and children,
they've all went woke,
they've all went nuts,
they like transvestors
and all this crap.
So seriously,
that's what we would have thought,
but that wasn't real.
And I don't have to sit and tell you,
I know for a fact,
and it would take me too long to tell you why,
this country is 66% red.
Did you know that?
They've lied to us,
isn't it funny that every election,
oh it's 50-50,
now it's 49-51,
and now it's our turn.
It's the Uniparty Deep State Globalists
that have taken us over.
It's disgusting.
So when we roll in today,
and get these debates,
and I got Lisa Deimuth over here,
and I don't like badmouth and other people,
but she's over here bragging about something
she did with fraud a year and a half ago,
she's a speaker of the house,
and then she goes,
but the Democrats stopped me.
Well, good for you special.
Why didn't you yell to the people
that we got fraud?
This is crazy.
You know, you got me in there as governor.
You're going to hear,
we get a blocker in that Democrat,
a Republican blocker.
You're going to hear about it,
like you've never heard about it before.
We're going to put billboards
around and around the state.
This person's blocking this common sense issue.
We want to get rid of the satanic statue
and the Capitol.
Is there a problem with that?
You know, you can't make this up.
We want to bring back our state flag.
That's common sense.
Maybe at least have a vote on it.
It's unbelievable.
So you're going to hear,
so I'm sorry,
the same old input
gets you the same old output.
Now, people have said,
well, Mike, you're not going to,
you're not going to,
if you don't get the GOP endorsement,
that you're not going out of that.
No, I'm not.
And there's a reason I'm not.
They did a poll in Minnesota
a couple of months ago,
right before I was going to the president
of the people.
All those little straw pulls.
I was third.
But the people of Minnesota
that voted,
I was in first place.
I had a deal with them.
Then Kendall,
the people wanted that.
Now, I did.
I've been down this road before
when I ran for RNC chair.
The night before that election,
I doubled Harmie Dillon and
Ron and McDaniel in the country
combined.
Then 168 people,
three from every state,
did their vote.
I got four votes.
Okay.
But I'll tell you the good.
And I'm looking at God.
Why did I do this?
Well, the good that came out of that
was a thing that was passed.
A resolution that I stayed on with it.
And I called out Harmie.
She's as bad as she was.
And Ron and McDaniel,
we already knew we had problems.
So the rat in there was
it was Harmie in that thing.
And one of their lawyers,
in fact, my speech,
maybe that's why they didn't endorse me.
I said the first thing I'm going to do
is fire the lawyers within these 168.
That was my speech.
You got bad lawyers over here.
I don't care.
I wasn't going to win anyway,
the way it looked like.
But we got a resolution passed
that following summer
with help from Ron and McDaniel.
Believe it or not.
And the West room, because I ran,
they had heard the common sense
that I had said before them.
And the flaws that were in the RNC.
And I said this resolution needs
to be passed for the future.
And it was passed.
You know what it says?
It says same day voting, paper ballots,
hand counted, voter ID,
precinct level.
This is what a perfect election will be.
It's in our resolution now in the RNC
because of what happened back then.
Right now, that's Save America Act
to pass that.
That's the number one thing
the president is doing.
He knows it.
We have to...
It's like taking...
You take pieces of an election.
With all the ways they steal.
You take that chunk out.
And now we have an election.
And now it's going to be
more blatant over here,
the deviations.
Because you don't have these
illegals to use, their names.
So you're trimming the names now.
Places like Wisconsin,
they're kind of doomed.
The president just...
I just told him this the other day.
It's in our booklet I gave him.
900 pages of my team.
I built a team of 300,000 people
in the last four years
across this country
called Cause of America.
That's on vocal, too.
They worked hard in every county in this country
to secure our elections,
to try and get to paper ballots,
hand counted,
get rid of the voting machines,
clean our voter rolls,
and do all this stuff.
In Wisconsin,
there's 7.2 million names
on their voter rolls.
If everyone in Wisconsin voted
that could vote,
it's 4.1 million.
Now, you think about that.
It's disgusting.
So they can pull it here.
We need a name.
We need a name.
We need a name.
We need a name.
It's disgusting.
So anyway,
so we get into these
and I'm not getting the word out
of how I'm gonna win.
You have to win this election in Minnesota.
You have to win.
We have to win.
It isn't just,
oh, this candidate's better
because they're a politician
that can talk smart.
Well, I'm sorry.
I'm a businessman
and I saw problems like our president.
That's it.
And then the first,
the first thing,
the only media outlet,
other than the first day I announced,
they had to kind of cover that.
Only two showed up
and where I announced it, though.
Only two.
The Starship Union,
the second time they wrote an article
in two years,
because I've used the media
to attack me to get the word out
because I didn't have Fox
and I didn't have Newsbag.
I didn't have them.
So I welcomed,
when they took away all my pillows,
companies and all these stores
and all my year Walmart's cost
goes bad, bad through me out.
I spread them out every day
so I would have more for the media.
Hey, you just lost,
you just lost,
bad, bad through me out.
Did you hear about our elections?
Did you hear about like,
Mike, you just lost Coles.
You just lost this.
How do you feel
to hear about our elections?
You know, your Twitter got canceled.
How do you feel, did you hear about our election?
You know, this is how I got the word out.
I used the media to attack me
over and over and over again
because, and you know what,
some of them were so,
we became friends
because they're the ones that would call me
no conservative media, none.
Zero.
Over here you have,
they would sit there
and write articles about me.
Some of them we got to be,
they got torn.
Some of them I make them read my book
if they were doing a long form infomercial.
And if they did that,
one of them, one kid,
I witnessed to him
for four hours on a Saturday in my office
because he had turned,
I go, what happened to you, Zach?
He's such a good writer,
but he completely used to be a Christian.
He told me his whole upbringing.
I prayed for him in my office.
It worked for about a month,
but we still prayed for that kid.
But anyway, these guys would read my book.
Now they would write their attack articles
and they wouldn't get published.
So I'm going,
but see all of them,
no matter who you were,
you had to quote me,
at least one quote in that article,
or you could lose my number.
I always took their phone calls,
every single time I welcomed it,
any attack or whatever,
I have nothing to hide.
There's only one truth everybody.
So it's easy to talk to them.
There's only one truth.
I went on Jimmy Kimmel twice,
once in a claw machine,
just to get the word out.
I didn't care if I was embarrassed,
humiliated.
What's humiliated
if we don't have a country,
if we're gone?
There's nothing to fight for.
Who cares about that?
Oh, Mike's been sued.
I've been sued.
I don't care.
Sued for 2 billion,
3 billion to make it a trillion.
I don't have any money.
It's disgusting.
Put it on the pile.
Throw it out back.
I got a whole bunch of them.
You know?
So here is me, Murphy,
my first interview.
You guys all know who she is.
She works for CBS.
She attacks me.
Now the last interview
that she had ever done,
I was one of the first interviews
back in 2016.
After I'd done this,
this was my first speech I ever did.
I did it two days before
when he came to Minnesota.
I was petrified on that tarmacs.
In 2016 on a Sunday,
the election was on Tuesday.
And I remember there's a beam of light
and I'm all nervous out there.
And here comes Michelle Bachman.
I didn't know where she goes.
I heard the name and she goes,
Mike, I'm Michelle Bachman.
She goes, you look like you need to pray.
And I go, yes, I do.
And so I get up there
and Amy, you were there.
So I had one person I knew there.
Amy in the back.
She's in the front row.
I'm hoping she's filming, right?
And nobody else, no family
because it didn't happen.
Overnight, it was a miracle
I could even get here from the West Coast.
And I get up there
and I was petrified of the crowd.
But I said, I was born and raised in Minnesota.
And I went, what?
I'm going, hey, this thing's so bad.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It was going crazy.
And I'm going, I'm going.
So I get through it.
And now I was so excited
when Amy started crying.
She was going, she didn't get the filming down.
So I had no way to get this.
I wanted it for my kids to show them.
And I asked all my media friends
and none of them would give me that tape.
None of them because they were ordered
not to release that, you know, a mi tape.
So now we go out, Donald Trump,
we go to the victory party.
He wins the election.
So I get called by the Minnesota media,
all of them.
Could you come back here
and tell us how you know
that new Donald Trump was going to win?
Because I was saying he's going to win.
I just, it was, you know,
it was a divine feeling I had.
Well, anyway, it called by
Esme Murphy's for CBS.
I said, WC SirCBS.
And I said, I said, if you give me that tape,
I'll come back and I'll go on your show.
So they said, yeah, okay, we will.
So I come back to Minnesota,
I get my tape for that.
Now I go on there and Esme starts
asking me questions.
She goes, and what I liked about her,
she didn't dig in on each one.
She'd asked me, I'd give her an answer
because I guys, I knew nothing about stuff.
I didn't.
And by the way, I didn't know
what a Muslim was.
Okay.
I didn't know what they believed in.
So here's what she said.
Her last, her last question was Mike,
if you're a Muslim and you're living here
in Minnesota in Minneapolis here
and you're very afraid that Donald Trump
won, what would you tell him?
You just tell him Jesus has his hand
in all of this and it'll be okay.
Her mouth dropped.
Her mouth dropped.
Her mouth dropped.
That's how the interview ended.
So now, so now I didn't know
they didn't have Jesus.
I didn't know.
Sorry.
Headlines of the Tribune.
Mike Lindell said the Muslims need Jesus.
Shame on him.
Shame on Mike Lindell.
So now, so now, now fast forward.
The next other than one hit job
as we did in between,
attacked me viciously, viciously
when I had all the evidence
for the crimes against our country.
And now then, so that was
in between that one and that one.
And then here comes the last one I did.
The only one I did in December.
So after I know it's old as they
calls me up and she were still friends
on Facebook.
I've never had to deface her yet.
Right.
So anyway, so, so she goes.
So here she is.
She gets, she get,
I get down to Minneapolis
and now I will give her credit for this.
She was taping it live, taping it live.
There's no retakes.
And I'm thinking, okay,
you're taping it live.
You didn't take the other ones live.
They were live.
So you're probably what are you afraid?
I'm going to say something that rhymes
with dominion, you know.
And so anyway,
but she tapes it live.
And her first, her first question is,
Mike, this is how she opens the
interview.
You just seen the horrible thing they did
to the president the other night, right?
You know, when you signed that
interview that they did to him
and he goes, you should be ashamed of yourself
or whatever.
You remember that one?
This is Esme.
First question.
Mike.
My pillows bankrupt.
I said, what?
My pillow's not bankrupt Esme.
I said, what kind of horrible
journalists are you?
I said, we're here.
We're here to stay in Minnesota.
And we're still standing in spite
if you've seen Arctic Frost by
our own government hired with
the FBI, the DOJ and the IRS.
Arctic Frost, if you've all heard
of that, there was 90 some people,
nine centers and one company
viciously attacked more than
any company in history.
Well, we went through debate,
demerchant server.
It happens every day in my team.
My employees have had to endure this.
I said, Esme, they've sat here
and what I've done is the CEO.
I said, I built the American dream on
steroids going from an attic in these streets
of Minneapolis to build one of the biggest
direct sale companies in history
and then only to have it be attacked
over and over.
I could have walked off the course,
but I love this state and I love
my pillow and my employees.
And I said, we've had to endure that
to guide that through other than, you know,
with God's help to guide us through.
I said, they sit there, we pray all
the time in my pillow for the next day,
for the next day.
And we've been doing that for four years.
And I go, hey, shame on you, Esme.
Then she didn't see pivots.
Well, Mike, you know, your evidence,
you know, you had to pay $5 million
challenge that your evidence was no good.
I go, Esme,
now you're worse than the star and tribune.
I said, the 8th circuit
right here in Minneapolis
overturned that and said,
Mike's evidence was right and Mike was right.
And she looked to me and she goes,
and she was just stunned because she didn't do her due diligence.
The 8th circuit in Minneapolis,
you say judges, there's no hope.
They told me it was a one in a billion.
My lawyer said, you're never going to get
that overturned in Minnesota here
because it was so corrupt that they did to me in the first place.
I said, the truth is the truth.
There's only one truth.
And I don't care if it's one in a billion.
What do I have to, I got nothing to lose by trying.
The people need to know it's all true.
And by the grace of God and people praying,
and by the way, Doug Warlow, if you all knew him,
he wrote that thing, that whatever that,
they call that brief, to the 8th circuit.
And he overturned it. They overturned it.
And they, so...
So we didn't give up.
So he asked me, then she hits me with another one
about the illegals.
And I go, he asked me, the illegals, that's easy.
I said, we have over 1,300 illegals in our prisons in Minnesota
that committed murder, rape, pedophile, everything.
I said, we pay $85,000 a month for them to house,
or a year of them to house them.
That's $110 million that I said
being taken from us as taxpayers.
You could call up ISIS and say, pick them up,
we got a bunch, and ship them back.
And I say, as me, as me, even for your,
if you're going, oh, those illegals,
they'd be free in their own country.
No, we have deals in place with every country.
They have to take them back and put them in their own prisons.
Did you know that? That's on the books.
And then he's going, blah, blah, blah.
And then I said, then I said, as me,
I said, as me, in our county jails.
I said, in other states, I said, I know county jails.
I spent a lot of time there.
I know all about them.
Those are your misdemeanors and your gross misdemeanors.
I said, every illegal, about 90% of illegals
in the first 90 days come in a crime.
What is that crime? Usually a misdemeanor.
A driving offence with no license.
And here they give them away like things.
And here it's usually theft.
But then they don't even rest it for that nowadays, right?
It's whatever the sanctuary say, well, let them.
So we give them money.
Rather than bring them into the jail, just give them some money.
Maybe they won't steal again.
That's their philosophy.
So I go, as me, if you take those
and you go and you hold them in the jails
like other cities like Memphis and even Washington, DC,
you go, hey, we got some more.
Come and pick them up.
Then you don't even have to go from door to door.
And you don't have to have that.
Other cities that works.
And then I said, and then I went a step further
and I said, and they say, she says something about protesters.
And then we hadn't had the two tragedies yet, right?
But I will tell you this.
The protesters, I said, when I'm governor,
I'm going to have to put in the strictest protest laws
in the nation.
But guess what? I'm not going to do that.
You know why?
We already have the strictest protest laws in the nation.
Minneapolis does. They just don't follow them.
I was blown away. I go, this will be easy.
All you got to do is enforce them.
You can't stop people on sidewalks in the middle of the road.
Hey, do you live here? Do you live here?
Yeah, I live here. What are you doing in my pathway?
You know, this is disgusting.
They all should be arrested.
But here's the final piece to that.
Now, I didn't tell Esme this. I'm telling you this.
I've added to this because I kept thinking,
why is there 10% that don't come in a crime?
You know why?
Because they're working for somebody for cash.
They're getting underpaid.
Usually they were in California back in the day
when I went after them there.
I'm telling you who I went after.
They're getting paid cash and they can't tell their employees
that they're underpaying them.
So now I got a business over here
and this business owner is avoiding taxes,
doubling FICA, unemployment tax,
workbench contacts, insurance, all this stuff.
Paying these guys underpaying them cash.
So you know what I'm going to do when I'm governor?
It's 90 days mandatory in jail
if you're paying in illegal cash.
Period. The owner, the business owner,
the manager, the supervisor,
and the CEO, you do that
and it eliminates it immediately.
Now you have no reason for illegals to come into our country.
Now what are they going to do?
They're going to come in, like I just was down in Florida.
I had to find out what it's like with illegals coming in.
What does it look like?
One of the biggest places coming in down there.
They're all coming in legal.
What do they do?
I talk to these people.
They're from all different countries, but they have a passion.
Some of them have waited months.
They don't mind waiting because they know
they want our freedoms.
We have here.
They love our country what it can be.
They've heard about the American dream.
You know what they do?
They learn English, by the way.
Perfect English.
I was in Minneapolis about three weeks ago.
Went down there.
Went to use an ATM machine
and it was written in Somalia
and I had to switch it to English.
You can't make it up.
Anyway, so I'm going to circle back and say
so I decided two months ago
that you know what I pulled my team in.
I said I can't keep doing all these debates
where I only get to talk for three minutes.
I said people need to know
what's going to save our country, our state.
They need to know the solutions,
but they also need to know that no one else can win.
You have Lisa Damoth that took house money.
She took some kind of money.
She can only spend four million dollars
when she gets up against Globeture.
I've already raised more money than all of them,
I think, combined.
And you know what?
They were staring at me and they did ask me
the other day at one of the debate events.
Mike, you've already spent,
the report came out, you spent all your money.
Yeah, we're trying to win.
I'm going right for Globeture.
We got to win.
What am I going to do?
Put the money away for a rainy day.
It's raining here.
Are you kidding me?
What am I going to save it for
so I can brag I have this much money
to be Globeture when you guys don't even,
you guys want me to endorse some
establishment candidate?
She was here when this happened.
I don't care if there's an R by your name.
We need a different input.
I love my state. I grew up here.
And I will tell you, so I said,
you know what we're going to do?
We're going to do what I did with our great president.
We're going to bring the message to the people.
We divided this state up into 67
Senate districts.
I have teams I built in every one.
We're still building them.
I'm communicating with them.
We're going to do every single district
some more than others. We've done over 20 right now.
And we're going around.
There's 250,000 people that voted
for Donald Trump in 2020 that didn't bother
to vote in 2022.
I'm going to get out the message. It's critical.
This is it. You know how many people
I've talked to? If I don't win,
if we don't, St. Minnesota,
they're leaving. I did a fundraiser
in Texas the other day and raised
hundreds of thousand dollars. You know what I said?
You guys, if you don't help me,
they're all coming to Texas.
Here you go, here you go, Mike, here you go.
And that's what I told them.
I said, you think you got people
coming here now from California, Minnesota
is right there.
We have the highest income tax,
the highest corporate tax. We're
third in the nation for frivolous
regulations only to California
and Colorado. We're almost passing
Colorado now for frivolous
regulations.
The latest one, you know the health
thing, we can take off 12 weeks and
your employer has to pay. That is
disgusting. It's killing my pillow.
I had key people go. I was just up north
at Two Harbors and they told me stories.
They only had six employees and two of them
took advantage of that. They were done.
They're closing their doors.
They couldn't go in. If you hire out,
you have to hire a contract label.
If you hire someone, you can't get rid of either one.
It's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen.
And they go, and
someone came up to me and my company
said, because we have to pay as a company
based on how many employees that kids take
out of their check. I got this big,
I don't know, $30, $40,000 bill
this week. I don't have them going,
what? I go, you mean that we got to
pay too? And they go, well why don't we
take some employees and then they could all
go join this. And so we take
advantage of that. I said, no,
it's insane. I was baby seven.
When I was nine years old, I go to
go babysit. But it's bizarre.
And then, you know,
I don't even know the concept behind it.
So, you know,
so anyway,
they say, so I change this.
So we're going to do, we're going to do
rallies, big rallies, town halls
like this. We're going to do bring
the message to every town in that
town. We're approaching every single church
to get them engaged. Every single
person in that town. I'm going to view
every town and every person
like it's the only person to vote.
You know, because this
is it. Nobody can sit back
and say, oh, the problem is just in Minneapolis.
We're safe up here in Princeton. We're
safe up in two Harvests. You're not safe.
It's going to be over.
And they, and
so we're going to do that. We're going
to put out 26,000 signs
across Minnesota.
That'll be a record of all time
and
everywhere. I want people to see it
everywhere. You say, the money they
spend now, see, they're stupid too.
It was kind of dumb.
What they're going to do, they're going
to spend all their money on these high
price double your ads on CNNs
and your Foxes and your ABCs
and NBCs. People
now, we have the biggest voice like I
told you. I have 12 million people
on my social media platforms
and I have people that have hundreds
and hundreds of millions on their platforms
and I have one guy that's got
pretty much everybody on his platform.
So
when I put a message out, or I put
an ad out, you're going to see what
I've been doing now is just putting the events
up every day and pulling money in
from them and say, here, I'm going to
show not just the president, but everybody
I'm going to work 18 hours a day
when my pillow is safe. I'm all in.
I will not fail. We have to
we can't fail. They asked me the other
day, well, Mike, why are you
doing this? I said, have you ever seen the movie
Arm Again? You guys seen that movie?
Remember when they saved the world with the
asteroid and she asked Bruce Willis
why are you doing this, dad?
And he said, because I don't trust anybody
to do it, to get it done right.
And everything I've learned,
every all the attacks, the media
the media attacking, when
those other Republicans get in there
yet they don't have a chance
up against the media. None.
Okay, I deal with them
every day. You know, I get around them.
I know what to do. You think
I care that they do a hit job on me? I welcome
I probably called them up and told them about it.
Did you all see
I'll give an example. Did you all see
when CPAC endorsed me? But what did
they, what did the media put out? They put
out a thing that I was served papers on live
TV. Did any of you see that?
Do you know what that was? That
was me. My attorneys had
them serve them to him and his wife
because he was using my image
on a media platform illegally.
He doesn't have the rights to use my
image and advertise his gold company.
So we served them papers. His wife
was throwing these papers back. I didn't
know it was his wife. And but do you
know what, when I did find out I'm going
the guy goes, can we, can we go ahead and play this?
Yeah, absolutely. So it's out there going
Mike was served papers, but did you know
he's running for governor? You see what I mean?
The world felt I'm running for governor.
Who cares I got served papers. If it was
real papers, put it on the pile. Put it all back.
I don't care.
You know, you don't, you don't need
you know to, everyone's going, and the
media, they can't attack
me going backwards. I've told it all.
Do you guys know in the beginning
of 21, I was the secret service
came up to my pillow that came
ahead of the secret service and one of
the top guys came up and he goes,
Mike, you're the number one target in
the world right now. This is early
January. And he said we, he said
let me tell you, and he said he
ran my book. He's a friend of mine for four years.
And he said they can't attack
you going backwards because you've
told it all. You've told it in a book
you've told everything. And he said they
can't really even attack you in the
media going forward because they
just say, oh that's because he backed
Donald Trump. It's been going on for
four years. He said they're going to
come to you two things. And he
said they're going to pull up in a van
and pull up a van behind you and
you're going to be dis-disappear. Or
he said they're going to come after your
company and everything you got
to shut you up. Well
thank God they took the ladder, right?
But um
so we're going to put up
the signs and we're going to do commercials.
I mean it's just to see what things we're
doing. I'm going to engage every
single person in this state with teams
to beat Klobuchar to
get the word out that we can
win. This state needs
hope. You know what the thing is you've
heard before this? This is why the fraud
is so important. This is why the
nonsense they did here in Minnesota that
was magnified more than any other state
in the country. Nobody puts
a satanic statue in the capital.
Not one governor said, I'm
sorry if you have 10 people in your house for
Thanksgiving, you get arrested. Your neighbor
could turn you in for 90 days. And they
gave us two more for Christmas. Y'all remember that?
Okay. He tried to close down
our fishing, opening fishing over. That's
another story. I was with the president when
he made the call. He said, you're not
doing that. Okay, so anyway
the
what we did is in
the 2024 election
Rudy Giuliani and I went in the heart
of Chicago. And
we went down in Chicago and we found
all these blacks that were voting for
Donald Trump that had never voted Republican
in their life. And we filmed
them. We did all this
filming. There was probably 50 to 75.
We filmed them and said
why are you voting for Donald Trump?
And what came out of their mouth
was the most powerful things to
other blacks in the inner city
because of this, this and this. So
that's them telling them
not me convincing these over here that
are these left-wing liberal Democrats that
have always voted Democrat. What they said
it was the most powerful commercials you've
ever seen. That's what I'm doing
here in Minnesota. I'm going down the
inner city where I did all this down there.
My friends are still down there. Their
business has got burned to the ground
when they quit addiction
and they quit dealing drugs and their lives
were changed. They don't want these
protesters down there. They don't
want this nonsense down there. They don't
want the empty streets and the danger
and they're going to go this is why we're
voting for Mike Lindell. Those are what
I'm going to be hearing down there. Now
you can do that with farmers. You can go
farmers. This is why I'm doing with
Mike Lindell. Suburban
housewives. You get them. This is
what I'm doing. Let them tell the story.
That's what I do as market.
I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell
I'm going to do three more. I'm going to
tell you three more quick problem
solves what I'm going to do. I'm going to
tell you that's my marketing campaign to win.
Now what do you know about politics, Mike?
Okay, here's one.
I was shopping.
We have the first mall in the world
was in Minnesota
Southdale Mall in Bloomington.
I grew up with that mall. The first
escalators in history. Do you all know
that? I went in there.
I had a store there before my pillow store.
I went in there two weeks
before Christmas.
And it's all empty in the middle.
Store some coming soon, some empty.
The people, where are the people?
It's just like you're waiting for the tumble weeds, right?
And then I seen
a lady in Portland going, here I
am in the safest city in the world.
I'm going, what? She goes, there's nobody
here. Okay.
And I felt like that. Minneapolis.
The empty buildings down there right now.
I grew up with going down
to Dayton's and stuff. It was
so sad. But there's another
reason, not just for the safety.
Not just what's happened in
our city. There's a thing was
people sitting at home.
One of the biggest monopolies there ever was
and that's Amazon. You're clicking your phone
and you're ordering stuff online
from my pillow, Amazon
and all this stuff online and it's delivered
right to your front door.
And here was my plan
and I had this nine years ago
but now it's come to fruition.
I actually couldn't do it. I'm going to eliminate
sales tax at the
brick and mortar level, the small business
level. It's gone.
Okay.
And how
are we going to make up for that money?
We're going to turn, every
state can set their own internet tax.
We're going to move that up tonight.
And I haven't said the budget part of yet.
Maybe as high as 15%. It's going to hurt
my pillow. I don't care. We need
to win and save our country.
Okay. You have to give people
an incentive to go shopping
physically get out and buy something
and save some money.
And this will solve that.
And you know what else? Five states have done it
but they don't have neighboring states like we do.
But the states they do,
they pour in and it
creates jobs. They pour in. When you
got your diamond stores and your big tickets
your cars, your tractors, they come in
to save that money. They're going to come to Minnesota
to save that sales tax.
We have some of the highest in the nation in St. Paul's
10%. And they're thinking of raising
it more and more because like
our schools, our schools are
funded by bonds. This is my another quick fix.
I met with the teachers
over and over. There's one
thing with the teachers that's so sad.
They've come to me, they
know they can trust me not to give their names
and they said, Mike, a portion
of all of our checks goes to fund the No
Kings things in St. Paul.
All the Democrat
stuff. Now they said, I said, you're
kidding. She said, no.
But you can sign a sheet
saying you don't want any money taken out
of your check like that.
But then they're blackbombed. The new news, they attack
them. And I said, you know what
we're going to do? There's power
in numbers. That will be...
I'm going to have a big mouth when I'm
with you. And they...
What I'm going to do, God
picked someone that was afraid of rejection.
I'm not afraid anymore.
What we're going to do with all
them teachers are all going to sign
that paper at the same time.
And I guarantee you're not going to
find 50-50. It's probably
going to be 75% of them
teachers. You all think, oh, they're
all Democrat, whatever. No.
They're not. They're afraid.
They're afraid to talk.
There's so many industries
affected, even our judges.
They're afraid. That's why we never got
anywhere with a lot of these judges
with the voting machines. Because they
threw stuff out on sanction and
standing. You don't have standing.
Nothing got all the way to the end by merit.
Nothing. Nothing.
Well, I take it back. One did
my trial with a $5 million
challenge where they overturned it. The
truth set us free. So now I want
to say, with the teachers
in Minnesota, we spent 29%
more. And I
don't know the years. Let's
say it was four years. 29%
more money. Our budget went up.
And we went from, like, fifth in
the nation to, like, 32
in testing.
It's disgusting. So I'm sitting here
as a businessman. And by the way, do you know
during that time we're funded by bonds? And
then when you run them out here, you issue more bonds. It's
like a big Ponzi scheme. And when you run them out
here, you raise your property taxes.
It's one of the first things we're
going to do, at least for the elderly that
are retired, you don't get taxed out of
your house. It's gone. We got to get
rid of that immediately.
Immediately.
And what I did as a businessman,
when you see a problem, the first
thing you do, instead of just going
right to your due diligence, see if
anybody else has faced that problem
before. What a concept, right? It's
like, it's like business 101.
So what I did, I looked around and I
said, well, there's 50 other states that any
state was a terrible and they went
up. Well, one state
stands alone. Mississippi
in 2014 was
50th in the nation.
In four years, they moved up to 35.
Now they're sitting in
the teens. I'm going, nobody
moves that fast in that time.
So we went down here, going on to
Mississippi and all these stuff. For the sake
of time, it's just, it's
everything you would think of, right?
I mean, are they
brought in people to learn English?
They had, but
anyway, there's a whole list. Let's just
grab that plan. That's going to be an easy
one. We're
using Mississippi's plan
and you shove it in. And then we say
to Democrats and Republicans
in our little sentence here and
legislature say, anybody
oppose this plan? This is perfect.
And then you're going to see what?
Oh, we have the people over here go,
that's terrible plan. It's going to ruin
the money we're stealing.
Well, you know what?
But you're going to hear about it and this
plan will be pushed through because they ask, Mike, how
are you going to work with these, you know,
if it's not Republican controlled?
Don't matter if it's Republican or Democrat.
This is going to be people controlled.
We are going to hear about it and you're
going to put pressure on them and say,
of course we want this. Just like we've
been putting pressure on the flag for our
state. All these cities now, they're going,
you know what? We don't care. We're going to fly
the real Minnesota flag.
So when you bring that in, you can
see people, we're going to use
Mississippi's plan of all
states. Put it in.
Boom, done. Easy fix.
The farmers in this state, I met
with them. They have
huge, huge things up against
them. They
have, they broke more antitrust
laws against farmers than anyone
in history. Farmers have to
sustain. We always have to subsidize them.
So corn has to be over $5.
If it's not there, they need to be subsidized.
First farmers I met said, we got
a solution. We have a sustainable
aviation field. Minnesota can do
that from Hastings all the way to
Minneapolis airport. There's a pipeline.
If you do that, we sustain, but
corn is always going to be between $5 and $5.50.
I'm going, I thought that was a great idea.
Then I got to thinking, I'm going,
what's going to happen to the price of our food?
Right? So you can't do that.
So I'm going, well what is the problem? Why do
you guys always have to be at this
way? How come the cost? I used to
farm for years now in southern Minnesota
with my uncle. And
here it is. It even started back then.
You guys know Monsanto.
You know Bear. You
know Roundup. All these, you
have to buy this corn. You have
to buy this fertilizer. It's
poisoning our food amongst
other things. So you have these
huge monopolies
controlled farming. Now there's the thing
I blew my mind. You can't work on your own tractor.
Did you know that? It's
bizarre. I go, you can't work
on your own tractors. And they're going,
some of them they'll try. They're even bringing in
different wrenches now that you won't be able to open
them up. Kind of like, you want to work
on your phone. Good luck. Right?
You ain't taking that apart.
This is disgusting. So they set up
another monopoly. So how do I go
after those monopolies? It's going to be fun
going after the teachers' unions and all the other
ones. But I've been through it with the
voting machine companies. I've been through it
with the most deepest, darkest evil the world
has ever known. And so is a friend of mine.
And him and I are working, this would be
we would need to work together to take
on those monopolies. Because this isn't
just a Minnesota thing. This is
a huge problem. And this is
our beef, too, in our
pork. The beef industry, the
chicken industry, it's all. So what do
they do when they run the little farm
around a business? They swallow it.
China's been doing that for a long time.
We all know that. So anyway, those are
different problems, solutions.
I have the whole, the one
downtown with the addicts. This is
the last one I'll say. I know I went over on time.
But
in Minneapolis, now for 10
years, when I came out of addiction
I poured millions upon
millions upon millions of
dollars into setting up
this, one was a foundation.
But it was this elaborate plan
to take, imagine,
I thought to myself, you know, people want to
give. People want to help.
People are good people.
You know, you've got your billionaires, your
millionaires, or anybody that wants to
help. But you don't, you
go, if I help this,
how much do I know really goes to the
cause? You know,
does it dime? Does a nickel go?
How much really makes it to that cost?
So what I did is I set up this thing.
It was millions of dollars to set up.
And imagine GoFundMe. These are all
these vetted needs on
this big board, right? And you can
beam it in. You could beam it into Minnesota.
Then they say, I want to go to Princeton.
Here's a need, right outside your back door.
It was an amazing plan. I tested
in a hundred and four,
around 144 nations.
Countries, we tested.
I put, poured millions of dollars into
this test. It was going to be so cool.
And here, we tested
it in Detroit, Michigan.
So I was the government. I wrapped around.
I was all the costs, which would be
administration costs to run the website
and all this stuff, and run all this.
And now here's the need. The needs
these people were told,
100% of your money goes to that cause.
Let's say it's
a welfare. Something
that some aliens wouldn't steal from,
okay? So let's say it was
a...
It was true.
But let's say, this was a real need. A real need, and it was vetted. It was something I would put everything into.
Whether it was a homeless person in need of this homelessness, some attic, it was a house burned down.
Whatever it may be, a program to help odds and whatever it would be.
Now these people in Michigan, the money poured into these. It was like a go fund me.
Now if it didn't fill, if it didn't fill, I would fill it as the government, if that one just stood there, right?
Because a lot of them were immediate needs. And then, boom, I would fill it.
And now you're going, wow, this is working. People were becoming addicted to giving.
I had to use my other program, my addiction program. No, just kidding.
I'm addicted to giving. You know, it's kind of like when I got addicted to helping people with the pillow, right?
And this thing saved, are you ready? 40%. 40%.
So imagine taking these programs. The first day I'm getting all new commissioners.
And every single program, and I don't even know how many there are, but I'm going to know.
I'm going to know how many there are, and I'm going to go through each one before this election this fall.
I'm going to start going through them. Is this one, do you really need this program?
Now there's one, the autism one, I was up in northern Minnesota when he cut that, the president cut that.
They understand that it's sad, but we know that it's for the greater good this has to be fixed.
Or we're suffering now, but they get it.
So you vet these programs, and that's one that would be needed, but then you got to help again.
You basically look at like, what if this is my only program, and what's the return on the investment?
And now you combine that with the private sector, and they shop around here, I have an autism.
You know, I'm going to help this out. I'm going to help out these addicts. I'm going to help out this, whatever it is.
Can you imagine taking the fraud out, and then you start fresh, you vet these programs.
I would say 70% of them in Minnesota are completely gone.
Because they're not, nobody benefits from, people are living off them. That just, they're not worth it.
Or you're going to put tweaks in them, and then you're going to put them out there.
Now these people in the private sector, all of you would know, hey, I want to help here in Princeton.
There's something happening over here on 3rd Street, whatever it is, or this.
You can localize it down to your local. It's already there. It's the biggest engine you've ever seen.
And I parked it. When did I park it? In December of 2020, because I dove all into this election fraud.
So that's been parked for five years.
Same way with my Lindell Recovery Network, where every addict on there, there's over 3,000 better churches that help addicts.
There's over 3,800 treatment centers. They're all faith-based in this country that work.
And then there's a free online program that I went through with.
I went through with those veterans back on that day that I got saved.
Getting off addiction is just a bonus. Getting to Jesus gets you there, and it's free.
So what did Keith Ellison do two years ago? He came after those two programs.
I go to my lawyers, how can he come after them? I put in all the money.
And then the first thing they found is a $100,000 deduction I didn't take.
I went, I'm my own money. I go, it's bizarre.
And then on the one program to build this foundation one, it never got...
We never... We only tested it, the prototype admission.
Because it sat there, they're going, well, you didn't do anything with it.
Yeah, you just tried to steal our country with it.
Just like you stole your election, Keith.
You know? I mean, it's disgusting.
Today, before I got here, I did a five-hour deposition.
They've been attacking me every day on that.
They're going, we're turning it up.
But Mike Vendell, he does number one, he's a Muslim.
He doesn't, he wants Sherilla. He doesn't want a Christian platform.
He doesn't want a Christian governor bringing God back into Minnesota.
I'm going to take in credit for it. God granted me this platform.
It's all your platform.
He grabbed just the loudmouth voice that couldn't talk.
And so anyway, with the inner city, you take...
We have all these empty buildings.
And I'm going to tell you, and this is the last thing I'm going to tell you,
I'm going to do, because this is one of the most amazing things for this country.
In December of 2019, the president and one of my best friends, Ben Carson,
and I was part of it on like a wing. I knew what they were doing.
And I looked at the program. I go, this is genius.
They all went out to LA, and they met with the LA mayor and the governor of California.
And they were all on board to do this.
And here's what it is.
And early in the 1970s, you all see the movie,
we went over to Cuckoo's Nest.
When that happened, it was in the early 70s,
there were 3 million people in mental institutions across our country.
Geraldo went out to New York and did a thing to see if he was inside
and seen if it was real, and it was happening.
Crazy stuff like that.
So what did they did?
The whole United States said, get these people out of there
and get them back to their families.
They didn't go to their families. Their families didn't want them.
They hit the streets of the United States.
Now there's 30-some million people.
The president says it's even more when him and I talk.
He goes, what do you mean? It's like 100 million, you know?
But all these people that hit the streets, they figure it's about 30 million.
And when they hit the streets, so there's those.
So what's in our streets today?
You have people in addiction.
You have people that are mentally...
mental, you know, that need help.
And then you have homeless.
So what they were going to do in LA,
remember, this was all in December 2019.
Everything, all these great things that built up.
And then the devil shut it down with the virus.
But here's what they were going to do.
They were at federal land outside of LA
and they were going to put up 10 cities.
As far as you can see, kind of like Colorado Springs, I've been there.
All the help centers for anyone you think would need help
are all like in a 10-block area, right?
It's very centralized.
So what they were going to do with this federal land,
they put these tents up, sweep the streets of LA.
One street at a time and bring all the people in there
and sort them.
So you spend money, tax money.
The president said it two months ago.
He brought it up.
He says we got to bring back the mental institutions
and fund them.
I hate to say it, but these people need help.
And to be the best money we at tax dollars
ever paid in history,
because we have the right help for them now.
We're not going to cut their brains out anymore.
You're going to help them.
So here, you take them and you fund them.
The second one is easy. It's my wheelhouse.
That's your faith-based treatment centers.
That's your teen challenges, your salvation armies,
your union gospels.
They can go horizontal and they can take on
every single attic in this country
in a short period of time.
They're built on a multiplicity.
But what do they need?
Funding.
I told the president you give them all that money
you did like the opiate bill.
And I said, tax dollars, it'll be the best money
we ever spent to get these people off the streets
into Jesus.
I mean, this is it.
And then you got the last bunch.
The homeless.
Well, why are they homeless?
They need jobs. They need a place to live.
Right?
So there I'm using Rudy Giuliani.
By the way, he's a friend of mine.
He works for me now on Lindell TV.
He's got a show on there.
You guys got to get on LindellTV.com.
I'm serious.
And that's another thing we're going to use to communicate.
But Rudy Giuliani, everyone thinks of 9-11.
Do you all remember when Rudy made New York
the safest city in the world?
In the world!
New York!
And he did it a short period of time.
Went up against the mafia.
But one of the things he did, he was just telling me
the other day, I go, when you did this,
he goes, Mike, I'll help you do it.
We'll do it in Minneapolis, right?
And I said, well, what about the homeless?
He goes, well, that's one of the easiest things
that I did.
So you put for security, you put the precinct
right in the middle of Times Square.
You all know that.
Here's the precinct.
Boom, right there.
Let's make it safe.
Then he banned hand handling.
But one of the first things he told me, he goes,
you know those guys that come out and wipe your windshields
and have the handout scrubbing your windshield
at the intersection?
He says, I arrested them all on the first day.
I brought them in.
232 of them, I think he told me.
And he said, you know what I did?
I gave them jobs.
And he gave them jobs cleaning up the city.
They have permanent jobs cleaning up the city.
Instead of standing out there.
And you know what?
The ones that were doing the windows, those are the first ones.
The traffic in New York to this day is up 34% in speed.
Think of that.
Because it's stopping everybody.
That was a bonus.
That was a spin-off bonus.
I go, you got to be kidding.
So Minneapolis said, boom, we plopped them down.
You got the homeless gone, the mentals,
and the people in the street.
And in Minneapolis, it's worse when it gets into winter.
They dying.
You know, this is...
So anyway, bottom line is, I have solutions.
And I'm blessed to have one of my best friends
as the president of the United States.
We are in.
We are in.
This is critical.
There is no tomorrow.
When everyone in here, you got to get on that vocal app,
spread the word, learn, learn, learn, and learn.
You got to be...
You got to educate people.
Now they said, Mike, my campaign, Rick said once,
oh, you shouldn't give them that idea.
They'll steal it like they did in Kamala when the president said,
no tax on tips.
And two days later, Kamala said, no tax on tips.
Little late.
We did hear about it through our other media,
not just your corrupt media.
So I said, you know what?
I don't care if they copy me as long as they would follow through,
but they can't win.
That's the problem.
They can't win.
They don't have the resource.
They don't have the platform to win.
You know, they might do great things,
all of those Republicans on that platform,
but they can't win.
That's the problem.
And the money poured into elections just to have them sold
is disgusting.
I know where Rick worked on my teams here.
Rick had teams all over the country.
He did South Dakota and Minnesota.
He's forgotten more about elections and cyber stuff
than some people will never know.
We now will make Minnesota in every single precinct
as safe as it can be.
Are the machines still going to be here?
God's done miracles before, but they're probably
still going to be here.
And I told the president, it might even be a good thing
where they're still at.
Because when they steal and they're going to try,
that deviation is going to go ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
And all of you and everybody,
I'm not going to be one of those politicians
that knows my election was stolen.
I know it was stolen, but you know,
I don't want to fight the contestant.
I will fight till every machine is melted down
and turned into prison bars.
I remember Larry Elder called me before the,
in California in the one election there,
he was running for governor, he's a friend of mine.
And Larry went out and said,
they asked him if the 2020 election was stolen.
He goes, no, Biden won.
He won fair and square.
And I went out publicly on my TV show
and said, Larry's shame on you
and just in the media just blasted him.
Larry calls me up, he goes, Mike.
I go, what are you doing?
He goes, I don't know the stuff you know.
I go, Larry.
Then you say, I don't know.
You don't say that it wasn't stolen
because you don't know.
I said, shame on you.
You were doing that to try and get votes on the left.
I said, you lied.
You do know it was stolen.
You think it was, but you don't know definitively.
And Larry called me after they stole his race.
It was blatant.
The cyber guys we watched it.
I sent them a little out.
He goes, Mike, they took my election.
I'm going, no.
Whoa, you're kidding me.
What do you want me to do about it?
I've been stolen from the top of the rooftop.
So anyway, with my lower voice,
I didn't think I'd talk this long,
but I will take questions.
God bless you guys.
And we have to win and tell everybody.
I know.