MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell reacts following President Trump’s endorsement — Full interview

[0:00] First of all, Mike, congratulations. How are you feeling? [0:04] I'm feeling great. This is so amazing. I'm so excited. It comes right before tomorrow's, [0:13] which I think will be a historical announcement by the president tomorrow night at 8 o'clock [0:17] central about the election platforms that I've been working hard on for five years. So [0:22] this is great things keep happening. And this is amazing. I'm very excited for our state because [0:29] now I'm going to concentrate. I've been working hard on the budget. I'm going to put all these [0:33] things out now to show everybody what we can do with each thing. Problem, solution, like we talked [0:40] about last time. I want everybody to know the plans I have, not just, you know, we're going to make [0:46] Minnesota affordable. Well, show us how you're going to do it, Mike, and we're going to show the [0:49] people. Did you know it was coming this morning? No, no, I did not. It's very exciting. [0:55] You had no idea it was coming? No, no, no. What was your immediate reaction? [1:02] I was, I actually got a text from somebody and it was early from my network, Lindale TV, [1:09] and they go, and he says, congratulations. And I look and I'm just, you know, it was so exciting. [1:15] I called my wife quick and, and I said, he just endorsed us. And it was very, very exciting. [1:22] And what do you think this will have on the primary? Well, I think it, you know, the poll [1:30] that came out a week ago, or let's see, there's two polls, KSTP, but that didn't show what it [1:36] was with the president's endorsement. The one that came out from big data poll a week ago [1:41] shows that with his endorsement now that I'm up, I believe it's almost 30 points on Lisa [1:48] Damon and Kendall's way back there at like 9%. I think I have the numbers here. [1:53] Big data, there's an internal poll. Yeah. Yeah. That was one that we did. That was one that was [1:57] done. Yeah. Yeah. It shows internal poll big data. And then it shows with, with his endorsement, [2:05] I'm 42.6. Lisa Damon is 17 and Kendall is 7%. So that's very exciting, but I'm not stopping. [2:15] Obviously we've got 4,000 yard signs out. We're putting them out daily about a thousand a day. [2:20] We want to get up to 20,000 around the state, every corner of the state, I've been helping [2:24] deliver them. And we have a huge event in Sauk Center, a town hall on the 22nd and CNN is coming [2:33] into town. Their biggest crew coming in to, to televise, I mean, to, to be there to report [2:40] on my, my, my, my race. And then also to visit my pillows factory. [2:45] You know, this, there've been some difficult times for the president. The war is very unpopular. [2:51] Gas prices have gone up. How do you think people in Minnesota feel about the president and how [2:57] much of an impact will, will his endorsement of you have? [3:00] Well, endorsement is huge. I mean, that's what it's going to, I think it's going to give people [3:08] hope now in Minnesota that we have change and we've got, we have to have change. There's not [3:14] going to, it can't be the same old input getting the same output. And to me, Amy Klobuchar is just [3:19] another Tim Walton, you know, just, you can't just change the name. We have to change the input. [3:24] We've got to get solutions to these problems. And, and I think that his endorsement, there's no [3:31] president in history that has done more problem solution and knowing what it manifests to you [3:38] guys in the media are just stuck right now on you, just like you do everything. Oh, this is going to [3:43] be terrible that he's done these tariffs or whatever it is. Then three months down the road, you go, wow, [3:47] that was a good thing. Wow. That helped everybody. Oh, that helped everybody. So I'm excited. And [3:52] um, um, the polls would not show the big increase if Minnesota did not want this. And they, uh, um, [3:59] so I'm, I'm, I'm very excited. I can't tell you how excited I am. You don't think the president's [4:06] slipping poll ratings and a lot of polls that show that this war is very unpopular. People are [4:11] concerned about prices. Do you think that the president has lost his edge in terms of support [4:17] in Minnesota? Absolutely not. The, uh, I, you know, I go around the state a hundred percent. No. Um, [4:24] the, um, as you know, there's other things that maybe that they, uh, um, if you talk about the [4:30] political, if you talk about people, you talk about, take part of the political, the politicians, [4:35] you talk about people, I go all over Minnesota, the inner city of Minneapolis, I'm everywhere. [4:40] They want solutions to problems. Now, a lot of them, there's people obviously that don't like [4:45] Donald Trump that, you know, you, and, uh, but you know what, it doesn't matter. If you take the [4:50] politics out of it, you look at the problem solutions. And we've seen this, what a businessman [4:55] can do at that level. I want to show the people of Minnesota, what I can do. I have withstood [5:00] what she put in his endorsement. I've been attacked more in my pillow, more than any company in the [5:05] United States, all because I wanted to secure our elections. And now tomorrow night, you're going to [5:11] see a hundred percent evidence that comes right on the DOJ that nobody can argue with. So I think [5:17] that's going to not only help, help, um, people realize that, you know, the, the spin, the media [5:24] has put on this president, our great president for a long time. Now, I think a lot of that will start [5:29] to be revealed whether, and, you know, I'm not worried about, you know, everyone in politicians, [5:35] they go, Oh no, boy, you got to bring down gas prices right before the elections and all these [5:40] things. Well, you know, this president, our great president looks at things and he says, [5:45] what's good for the long haul to help all people. And yet you're going to see gas and they come way [5:51] down, absolutely way down. And we get through this, uh, uh, this with the Iran conflict and war, the, [5:58] uh, you know, we don't know only God knows the outcome of what it's going to be, but, um, there's [6:03] people on both sides. You don't go, okay, he's doing this. Well, they're the, you know, they're like an [6:08] armchair quarterback. I mean, let's, uh, let's see how this comes out because everything else [6:14] he's done has worked. And this is what I say. And I've said it before. Well, did it split the [6:19] Republican party? Are you worried about that? Mike? No, I'm not worried about it. The people [6:23] have spoke. They, I go up 30 points with his endorsement. That's, that's just incredible. [6:28] 20 some points. So, um, I think it helps. It'll help the conversations around the state because [6:34] as you know, as me, there's a lot of things I'm going to do. And you said it yourself that [6:39] with that, the Republicans or the president might not like that in my plans for the, for the illegals. [6:44] Your immigration plan is, is very different that you're proposing. [6:49] Yeah, right. Absolutely. And the, and so I'm not, I'm doing what's for the people, [6:53] not just because the president doors me does. I'm going to do everything that, that he would do. [7:00] Absolutely not. I'm going to do what Mike Lindell is going to do that. I live here in Minnesota [7:03] my whole life. I've had one of the biggest businesses here. I'm going to do what I believe [7:08] is going to help all of us. And that, I don't care what party you're in. I don't care what race [7:13] you are. I don't care whatever. I want to help us as Minnesota. So we are living, so we can be [7:18] affordable living here and bring back our great state to, uh, we were, we were so proud of Minnesota [7:24] where, you know, I want to bring back our tourism. I just met with, uh, fisheries about with our lakes, [7:29] bring back fishing and, and, uh, outdoors with our lakes and they need, they need a lot of help. [7:35] And, um, um, but just different things as you look through our education, all the things, [7:40] things that have went down, I want to bring them up. But one of the biggest problems we have [7:43] are, are, are, are immigrants, are illegal immigrants and to help them. And so we solved the [7:49] problem. And, and I brought that up on your show last night, last time, and you even brought it up. [7:53] A lot of Republicans might not like it. The president might not like it, but I'm sorry. [7:58] I believe that as a businessman, this solves a huge problem we all face. Um, when you talk and [8:04] people are going to learn real quick that I do things as, as for all people, not just this party. [8:10] Remember, I had never voted in my life. I come from a past of addiction. I come a past of being in [8:16] the streets and be, I built them and I, I lived the American dream on steroids. And right here in [8:22] Minnesota, where else can we do this? We're going from where I was to, uh, building one of the biggest [8:27] businesses, uh, the state scene and employing thousands of employees, and then helping people [8:32] in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, St. Cloud, when, with all the homeless and all the people in [8:38] addiction and help all the millions I spent, uh, when people are in need, and we're going to put those [8:43] programs into place. All right. Can you summarize your, your immigration plan? Because it's very [8:49] different from what the president has been talking about. Yeah. What I want to do, you know, everybody [8:54] is we need to, these, the illegals, obviously the ones that have committed gross misdemeanors and [8:59] felonies, you, you got to ship them out. We were paying $110 million a year here in Minnesota to house [9:05] them and they're felons. They're bad people. And, uh, whether they, whether, you know, coming here [9:11] illegal or not as much as they're bad people, they've committed crimes, we don't need to keep [9:14] them. But the ones that the illegal immigrants that are here, that, and they've never committed [9:19] a crime and they're sitting there, they're afraid they're sitting there and they're always looking [9:23] over their shoulder and they've, they've came into our country. They, they're working, uh, they're [9:29] afraid even to work, but they, here's the thing. What I want to do is give them conditional visas. [9:34] They're not citizens in, but they get these visas. They, everyone goes to the courthouse, [9:39] you get, you get, you know, uh, fingerprinted, you get final, here's who I am. And now you get [9:46] this card and it's a conditional visa card where you're here and now you can go work and pay taxes [9:53] and the employers that are paying, that are paying them illegally, avoiding all the taxes [9:58] that were hurting all of us in Minnesota. These people that are underpaying the illegals and [10:03] they're paying them cash and they're stealing from us. These, you'll have a six months for [10:07] everybody to get these cards. And then the employers at the end of six months, if they're [10:11] still doing this, they're going to go to jail. They're going to go with 90 days, whatever [10:15] we put on there, because they've got to start paying their taxes. They are criminals. As far [10:20] as I'm concerned. Now they don't care about the illegals. They care about the dollar. And [10:24] now with the, the illegals now that have these cards, they're here. If they want to go get [10:29] a driver's license, they, they go to it. They need to learn English. I'm sorry. They [10:33] need to have to learn how to read road signs. I, if that's a problem, I, you know, back [10:37] in the day when I had problems with my license, I had what was called a B card for drinking [10:42] back in the day. And we just put this on there. So it's a provisional and a license. Well, [10:48] then you have that. And then you can, all the money that we're going to save for now having [10:53] these people working and then having these employers actually paying taxes and that money [10:59] that will be used to get more people to make the illegal to legal it. Then they can go to [11:04] the end of the line and get legal. And, uh, and we need these people working and, and it's [11:10] really solves the problem. These illegals, I want to tell everybody one more thing. They [11:14] sit under the shadows. They are getting crimes committed against them. Uh, it can be by people, [11:21] by other illegals, by even people that are here legal because they go, who are you going [11:24] to tell? I just stole this, or I just did something horrible to you. You can't tell anyone because [11:28] you're not here legally that this has to help. We have to help these people. [11:33] Mike, what about, I mean, there've been two of these people who fall exactly into your category. [11:39] Some men who've been here for a long time were shot and killed by ice in the last week, [11:44] one in Texas, one in Maine, your thoughts about that. [11:47] I didn't, I didn't know about that. I think this solves, but this solves the, uh, [11:52] this solves your problem. You guys with ice too, where ice, you know, if we now just imagine this, [11:59] the people that are here now, you know who they are. If somebody, if one of these, um, illegals [12:05] that have provisional visas, now they can be out in the open. They can also tell on the people, [12:11] whistleblow on the bad people that are there and the, and you get them. And then when we get them [12:16] in our prisons that have committed, they get charged with not charged, but they get convicted of [12:21] gross misdemeanor or felony, they're shipped out. They're gone. They don't get a second chance [12:26] ever. And even if you have one of these unconditional visas, if you commit a crime and, uh, and you're, [12:32] and you're convicted of it, you get shipped out. This is your grace period. And then it solves the [12:38] ice problem. The ice doesn't have to go door to door and ship out people that, that haven't [12:43] committed crimes. And they, they can just be, you know, it's like, Hey, we got 10 more really bad [12:48] people. These are really bad people. And then, and then it works. You don't have to have going [12:54] door to door and people confronting ice. And, and this is why we have the problems in, in Minneapolis [13:00] that we had, you know, here to the two tragedies. And we've got also, you know, Minneapolis has the [13:05] strictest protest laws in the nation, but we never follow them. This solves so many problems. If you look [13:12] at it from both sides, um, we've got these people, you know, this all came as me back in [13:18] California about seven, eight years ago, when I was down there with cotton fields, buying cotton for [13:23] my pillow, illegals that were here that were working in the next field over that they were [13:29] underpaying. And this employer was cheating and stealing from California and the United States [13:35] by not paying their taxes, underpaying their illegals. And then the other person could not compete [13:40] with them. So, but when you talk about, to answer your question, this really solves, you know, [13:46] problem people that say, well, they're, they're shipping out, uh, people that are, um, illegal, [13:52] they, that the only crime they committed was they came across the border, which by the way, [13:56] with that open border policy of Biden, it's almost like you were invited. It's just not right. When [14:02] these, you need to sort out, like our president said, the bad ones, the, you know, the bad people. [14:08] Let me ask you this. Have you spoken to the president since the endorsement? [14:12] No, I have not. I've, I put a thank you out on social media right away. And, uh, I said, I said, [14:19] I'm honored to, with your, uh, to have your endorsement and, uh, I'm going to work hard to [14:24] make Minnesota great again. You put that out on social, if you had a chance to talk to him, [14:29] what would you say? I would say the same thing. Thank you. I will not let you down. I've, uh, [14:34] I wanted, I'm thanking, I asked me, as I told you, I wanted to wait until he would endorse me [14:39] based on merit, not just that we're friends. And I've never, I've never went down the road. [14:45] I just said, you know what, when the time is right, when you feel that I've, you know, [14:48] campaigned hard and I have solutions, uh, to the problems we have in Minnesota, I don't give up. [14:54] You know, that I will not give up. I will, I will, I will fight to, you know, to help our state, [15:00] to help our state, um, get back to where we were to affordable. It's all about making things [15:06] affordable so we can live here and all people getting the help they need. And, um, so I'm [15:12] excited. [15:13] When the primary, you almost certainly will be facing Senator Amy Klobuchar, who has an amazing [15:20] record of enormous wins here in Senate races. Are you intimidated by that? [15:26] No, not at all. Because Amy and I, we agreed on one thing and that was the election, uh, [15:30] of election fraud. We went, she was the biggest one that wanted to get rid of the, uh, the, uh, [15:36] voting machines in 2018 and 19. And, and what did I do since then? I spent $80 million fighting that. [15:44] Amy spent nothing. What Amy did was ignore it after the 2020 election. So there's a lot of things [15:49] where Amy flip-flops just to, um, maybe to get, um, elected, but I have no problems going up with [15:56] Amy. I mean, I, in my mind, and you know, the reality is all this fraud and all these things [16:02] in Minnesota happened under her watch too. I know she's not, you know, she's our Senator, [16:07] but I'm sorry, this money that came in from the federalists to help these people that never got [16:12] help. Amy, you're not a good steward of money. So I have a lot of campaign to go up head to head. [16:16] I can't wait to debate Amy. I would love to debate Amy. Um, you know, in anything because [16:22] she doesn't have the business sense of problem solution. This isn't a thing of just fix one [16:27] little thing over here, um, and try and distance herself from the fraud. Like she's been doing [16:32] are going up to all these cafes. Here I am in upper Minnesota. You know what? Show us what you've [16:38] done and show us what you can, your pro your solutions to the problem. That's why I'm going to, [16:43] as may put out all of my budget and get that out there before we, before this primary is even over. [16:50] Uh, so everyone can see these solutions, you know, maybe Amy will copy them and say, Hey, [16:54] I'm going to do that too. Well, that's fine. All right. Because she was in Washington this [16:59] whole time. She wasn't in St. Paul overseeing state programs that, that were supposed to help [17:05] people. I mean, do you really think that people are going to blame Senator Klobuchar? [17:09] I didn't say blame. I said there was a lot of money that she solicited these funds that came [17:14] in with, uh, with COVID with these welfare programs that came in the federal funds that [17:19] came into our state. That's what she's soliciting. So she, you should probably watch where your [17:24] money goes. You went and got this money to help Minnesota to help our people. Those people [17:29] in need never got the money. We, you know, we, everyone could talk about the fraud and boy, [17:34] look at all the money that they stole from us. No, they took it from the people that really [17:38] needed the help. And this is where, you know, follow that. And then, you know, and I'm sorry, [17:42] there's a, it's a different, we need a different input. Uh, Amy's been around a long time. I give [17:47] you that. And she's, uh, and I can bring out all kinds of problems that were had on her watch. [17:54] And I'm not saying to blame, but that, you know, do you look at the party? Do you look at this? I'm [17:58] just saying that, uh, there's a lot of pictures with her and Walt's arm and arm. And all of a sudden, [18:03] now she's just out of the picture. She had nothing. She didn't know anything. [18:06] I'm not blaming. I'm just saying there's a solution to these problems. And we've got to [18:11] use a businessman's, uh, business solutions to this. What if this is, you've got to run Minnesota [18:17] like a business, because that's basically what it is when you're putting out your budget. [18:21] And I don't think Amy has the skillset to even think about doing that. [18:26] Um, well, Mike, you've been very generous with your time. I'm sure everybody in the world [18:30] right now. Thank you so much for your time. And obviously we will be following you just less than [18:38] four weeks to the primary. We're going to call the democratic governor's race very, very carefully. [18:44] Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Thanks. We appreciate it. Thank you.