Mike Lindell — MyPillow CEO, Minnesota gubernatorial candidate, and one of Donald Trump’s most shameless election lie peddlers — got served with legal documents on live television at CPAC on Thursday, and the footage is exactly as satisfying as you’d hope.
Lindell was mid-interview with a reporter from far-right outlet One America News at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Gaylord, Texas, when a woman walked up and interrupted.
“Hi, sorry to interrupt,” the woman said.
Lindell tried to shove her out of frame. “We’re on TV here, please,” he said repeatedly.
“I know, you’ve been served,” she replied.
Lindell refused to take the papers. The woman wasn’t having it. “You’ve been served, so you have to take this. Thank you,” she said.
After a back-and-forth that played out on live camera, Lindell finally grabbed the documents — and threw them on the floor.
Mike Lindell was served with a lawsuit today while doing an interview at CPAC. pic.twitter.com/6zr0O37dD2
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 26, 2026
Real profile-in-courage stuff from a guy who wants to be governor of Minnesota.
The timing here is not subtle. Just one day earlier, on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Nina Wang denied Lindell’s motion to overturn a jury verdict in a defamation lawsuit brought by Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems. The jury found Lindell and his media company Frankspeech liable for defaming Coomer — one of the many people Lindell dragged through the mud while spreading lies about the 2020 election being stolen.
It’s unclear whether the papers Lindell was served on Thursday were directly related to that Dominion case. But the man is swimming in legal trouble, all of it stemming from the same source: his obsessive, years-long crusade to convince Americans that the 2020 election was rigged.
It wasn’t. Every court that looked at it said so. Trump’s own appointees said so. But Lindell kept going, burning through his pillow fortune to fund conspiracy conferences, launch lawsuits, and produce unwatchable documentaries claiming he had the proof that would blow the whole thing open.
He never did.
What he did do was defame real people. And now the legal system is catching up with him — literally chasing him down during live interviews.
Lindell has been one of Trump’s most loyal foot soldiers, spending millions of his own money pushing election denial. He’s also been one of the most visibly punished for it. MyPillow has been dropped by major retailers. Lindell himself has said the legal battles have cost him tens of millions. Dominion Voting Systems sued him for $1.3 billion in a separate case.
And yet he’s still showing up at CPAC, still doing interviews on OAN, still running for governor, still acting like a man who hasn’t been repeatedly told by courts that he lied and owes people money for it.
The OAN reporter, to her credit, at least asked the process server what the documents were about. Lindell’s response was to literally throw the papers on the ground.
That’s the modern conservative movement in a single image: a guy who made his money selling pillows, lost it spreading election lies, and responds to legal accountability by throwing documents on the floor of a conference named after loyalty to Donald Trump.
Judge Wang’s ruling Wednesday upheld the jury’s finding that Lindell and Frankspeech defamed Coomer, a Dominion executive who became a target of conspiracy theorists after the 2020 election.
Lindell, naturally, is running for governor of Minnesota anyway.