Owner of Mexican restaurant in California posted a photo with Mike Lindell and is now receiving threats and harassment



A restaurant owner in northern California said that she and some of her staff were receiving threats and harassment after putting up a photograph with MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell.

Michelle Hill told the SFGate that two of her employees at "Tres Chiles Picosos" recognized Lindell because they had purchased MyPillow pillows, but they did not know about his political activism.

Lindell has claimed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that former President Donald Trump was the true victor. He is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for $1.3 billion in a defamation lawsuit for his accusations that the company participated in a scheme to fix the election.

Hill says neither she nor her restaurant's waitress and bartender knew about the political controversy surrounding Lindell when they took a photograph with him and posted it to the restaurant's Facebook page.

"I don't get into politics," Hill said. "We knew nothing about him apart from that he's the MyPillow guy ... my staff buys his pillows, his sheets, his socks, they were just excited to see someone famous."

Hill said she found out about the controversy after receiving numerous negative comments on the photo.

“It's not about the politics, it's about the crimes and sedition,” one user reportedly replied on Facebook. “You don't post photos with other tourists, why start with him.”

Hill says she would have posted the photo even if she had known about the controversy beforehand because Lindell is still famous.

"This was the first person that had come into the restaurant that they had seen on TV," Hill explained. "They probably would've taken a photo with Biden, or Trump, or Martha Stewart or George Clooney if they had come in... this had zero to do with politics."

She says she has received threatening phone calls and some people are calling for an outright boycott. But she refuses to take down the photograph.

"I'm not going to be bullied," Hill concluded.

"Tres Chiles Picosos" translates to three spicy peppers.

Here's more about the MyPillow legal fight:

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Twitter shutters MyPillow account after banned CEO Mike Lindell dares to post on social media



Twitter has banned MyPillow's Twitter account after banned CEO Mike Lindell took to the business' platform and posted a tweet.

What's a brief history here?

On Sunday, Lindell took over the company's Twitter account and wrote, "Thank you to everyone who has supported MyPillow during this time ... Jack Dorsey is trying to cancel me (Mike Lindell) out! We are extremely busy and hiring as fast as we can to handle all the shipping! Jack will be found out and should be put in prison when all is revealed!"

According to the New York Post, the MyPillow business Twitter account also promoted a Monday radio appearance on a show in which he "planned to discuss his bogus conspiracy theory about voting machines being tampered with to sway the 2020 presidential election in President [Joe] Biden's favor."

Lindell has been under fire for alleging that Dominion Voting Systems was complicit in rigging the 2020 presidential election. Dominion Voting Systems has filed a defamation lawsuit in response to Lindell's allegations.

Twitter also banned Lindell from using his personal account following the raid on the U.S. Capitol for a violation of its "civic integrity" policy.

What are the details?

The social media company in a Monday statement announced that it banned the MyPillow USA account for violating the ban evasion policy.

According to USA Today, the company's evasion policy says that "users can't circumvent permanent suspensions by using other accounts."

"If an account has been permanently suspended for severe violations of the Twitter Rules, Twitter reserves the right to also permanently suspend any other account we believe the same account holder or entity may be operating in violation of our earlier suspension, regardless of when the other account was created," the social media giant's policy reads.

In response to the ban, Lindell told USA Today that he "can't believe they're doing this to my company."

"They're out to destroy me," he said.

In January, Lindell revealed that several companies opted to stop carrying his MyPillow products, including Bed Bath & Beyond, Wayfair, and more.

The outlet reported that Kohl's and J.C. Penney have also jumped ship on the brand, but said that a "slowdown in sales" precipitated the decision.

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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell issues defiant statement after Dominion threatens to sue him over election fraud claims



MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell fired off a defiant message after receiving a legal threat from Dominion Voting Systems, an election machine manufacturing company many accused of a labyrinthine election fraud scheme.

Dominion accused Lindell of participating in a "smear campaign" against them and demanded in a cease and desist letter on Monday that he "preserve and retain all documents relating to Dominion."

Lindell has been one of the more prominent voices accusing Dominion of being complicit in a scheme to steal the election from President Donald Trump by switching votes for him to President-elect Joe Biden. Dominion has denied the accusations and sued pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell for $1.3 billion over what they said was a viral defamation campaign.

Lindell responds

When asked by Axios about the lawsuit, Lindell issued a defiant response.

"I want Dominion to put up their lawsuit because we have 100% evidence that China and other countries used their machines to steal the election," Lindell said.

Dominion secured an apology and a retraction from The American Thinker, a right-wing opinion website, for its claims of election tampering against the company.

In its letter to Lindell, Dominion accused the CEO of knowingly lying about the claims made against the company.

"Despite knowing your implausible attacks against Dominion have no basis in reality, you have participated in the vast and concerted misinformation campaign to slander Dominion," read the letter. "Litigation regarding these issues is imminent."

Lindell has been targeted for ridicule by critics of the president for his statements of support for Trump in the past. More recently he met with the president in the White House and said that he talked to him about the evidence he claims to have about election fraud.

He also said that MyPillow was dropped by Bed Bath and Beyond stores over pressure from a boycott campaign by a liberal watchdog group.

"The most evil people on the planet!" Lindell said of the group.

Editorial note: In the interest of full disclosure, MyPillow is a current advertiser on a program that appears on BlazeTV.