Lindell, a prominent conspiracy theorist and staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, has repeatedly criticized Fox News—despite continuing to advertise on the network—for declining to endorse misinformation about the last presidential election. Lindell has been a key promoter of baseless claims that President Joe Biden beat Trump in 2020 due to the election being “rigged” or “stolen.”
During a Thursday evening episode of The Lindell Report on his online channel Lindell TV, the MyPillow founder said he’d tried to get Fox News to play a video outlining alleged evidence of voter fraud.
“Run this tape on your show, instead of Sean Hannity,” he said.
“Maybe we should get our cyber guys that looked at all the evidence to hook up our stream to Fox’s,” Lindell continued. “You know, like they have—they all attack Lindell TV all the time. We get attacked.”
“Can you imagine, ‘This is Sean Hannity,’ all of a sudden, ‘Breaking News, right out of Georgia, we can’t even put the—we have the evidence pouring in, pouring in—Arizona—pouring in, Wisconsin!’” Lindell said with enthusiasm.
“And Fox would—you’d have the Murdoch’s going: ‘Oh no, what are we going to do? The truth is out. We’re the liars,’” Lindell added, referencing billionaire Rupert Murdoch, the longtime owner of Fox News through his company News Corp.
Back in November, Lindell called for and organized a small protest outside of Fox News headquarters in New York City. Fox News is “a big part of our country being taken from us,” the MyPillow founder claimed.
In January, Lindell told right-wing strategist Steve Bannon during an episode of the latter’s War Room podcast that he believes the U.S. is “better off” now because people know “how bad” Fox News is. “It all got revealed,” Lindell said.
Although Lindell has brought forward alleged “evidence” of fraud, cyber and election security experts have consistently debunked and discredited his claims. No evidence has emerged corroborating the allegation of widespread fraud leading to Biden’s victory, despite Trump and Lindell continuing to promote the groundless claim.
To the contrary, dozens of election challenge lawsuits filed by Trump and his allies in state and federal court failed. Even judges appointed by the former president ruled against the legal challenges. Meanwhile, audits and recounts across the country—including in areas where the election was overseen by pro-Trump Republicans—have repeatedly reaffirmed Biden’s win.
Regardless, the false allegations about the 2020 election appear to have resonated with many GOP voters. Polls over the past year have repeatedly shown that a majority of Republicans do not believe Biden was legitimately elected and that there was substantial fraud in the last presidential election.
Meanwhile, Lindell and other right-wing Trump allies continue to travel around the country to promote the conspiracy theory. Many of their events have been attended by thousands of Trump supporters, who are largely animated by the baseless claims.
Newsweek reached out to Fox News for comment.
