MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell’s ‘Cyber Expert’ Admits They Have No Proof of Election Hack

Nicely, it appears to be like just like the “con is winding down.”

Trump-boosting pillow salesman Mike Lindell had supplied $5 million to anybody who confirmed as much as his three-day “cyber symposium” and will disprove his claims that China hacked the 2020 presidential election by way of voting machines.

That provide is not on the desk as of Wednesday night, in line with Josh Merritt, the MyPillow CEO’s lead cyber professional.

In an interview with The Washington Times on Wednesday, Merritt acknowledged that the information Lindell had lengthy promised to disclose at this week’s symposium in South Dakota was bogus.

Whereas the pillow mogul has lengthy boasted he had 37 terabytes of “irrefutable” proof that exposed Chinese language-backed hackers had damaged into election techniques in all 50 states and flipped votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, he had delayed unveiling the “packet captures”—in any other case often known as intercepted community visitors or pcaps—all through the seminar.

All through the primary day of the symposium, a number of cyber specialists who had traveled to Sioux Falls to attend in individual and study the packet captures had turn out to be pissed off and irritated that Lindell failed to offer any knowledge, with one attendee saying they’d solely been proven “random garbage that wastes our time.”

In line with Merritt, that’s as a result of there was nothing to disclose. The “packet captures are unrecoverable within the knowledge” and “the information, as offered, can’t show a cyberincursion by China,” he advised the Occasions.

“So our staff stated, we’re not going to say that that is reputable if we don’t have faith within the data,” Merritt stated.

Lindell had lately aired movies of incomprehensible textual content scrolling within the background, claiming these have been the pcaps he had acquired and that the proof of widespread election fraud they contained can be so compelling, the Supreme Court docket would vote 9-0 to reinstate Trump as president.

The blurred scrolling photographs seem to have been all for present. One other cyber professional, J. Kirk Weibe, advised the Occasions that the “textual content was seemingly meant to resemble what the packet captures would seem like within the knowledge set however weren’t precise packet captures.”

The unique supply of the information, Dennis L. Montgomery, had supposedly suffered a stroke because the symposium started and was not in attendance nor made obtainable for contact all through the primary two days of the occasion. Montgomery initially got here ahead with the supposed packet captures after he spun a conspiracy idea that instruments utilized by the CIA have been getting used to affect U.S. elections.

Each Merritt and Krieb agreed that the information Montgomery despatched didn’t include any packet captures and are ineffective in proving Lindell’s conspiracy that China adjustments tens of millions of votes.

Merritt, nonetheless, stated he nonetheless feels the information they got incorporates vital “forensic” proof that voters have been manipulated, and he congratulated himself for what he was in a position to do with it.

“We have been handed a turd,” he advised the Occasions. “And I needed to take that turd and switch it right into a diamond. And that’s what I feel we did.”

Earlier than turning into Lindell’s lead “cyber professional,” Merritt had been pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s secret “military intelligence expert” in her “Kraken” lawsuits alleging international actors had used Dominion voting machines to steal votes from Trump. Merritt, often known as “Spyder” in Powell’s court docket filings, is an data expertise guide and an Military veteran. Nonetheless, he by no means accomplished an entry-level coaching course for navy intelligence and was not an intelligence analyst.

All the Powell circumstances he supplied professional testimony to have been tossed out of court docket.

Along with guarantees of huge reveals that Lindell couldn’t again up and complaints that Fox News is ignoring him, the flop of a convention in Sioux Falls has been beset by dangerous information. The beginning of the occasion, which was delayed by technical points, coincided with the revelation that Dominion Voting Methods had hit far-right networks One America News and Newsmax with billion-dollar defamation lawsuits. (Each channels had closely promoted Lindell’s symposium, and OAN has aired the even nonstop.)

And simply hours earlier than Merritt acknowledged that Lindell had no proof to again up his election lies, a judge dealt a brutal blow to Lindell, denying the pillow king’s movement to dismiss Dominion’s $1.3 billion lawsuit over his claims the corporate rigged the election.