Last modified on Wed 26 May 2021 11.45 EDT
Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and loyal Donald Trump ally, has said he was turned away from a convention of Republican governors in Nashville, Tennessee, this week.
Lindell, who has been sued for defamation over his baseless claims that a company’s voting machines stole the election from Trump for Joe Biden, was turned away as he attempted to go to a dinner at the Tennessee governor’s mansion.
A spokesperson for the Republican Governor’s Association told Politico that the event was for members of the association “and Mike Lindell is not currently an RGA member”.
She and several others were sued by Dominion Voting Systems, a Denver-based voting technology vendor, for spreading lies the company aided in stealing the election from former President Donald Trump. (There is no evidence the election was rigged.)
In a recent court filing by Dominion lawyers, it is now alleged that Powell has been taking money from her nonprofit to pay for personal legal expenses.
“Now, Powell seeks to abuse the corporate forms she created for her law firm and fundraising website to hide funds that she raised through her defamatory campaign, shielding those funds from the very company that was harmed by the defamatory campaign,” the lawyers wrote in a May 5 court filing.
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