Loony Trump Lackey Turns on GOP With Wild Sabotage Claim

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says the Minnesota Republican Party and local media outlets are shutting him out of the state’s gubernatorial primary.

On Monday, during an episode of Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, Lindell, known for his outlandish theories about the 2020 election, accused Minnesota Republicans of deliberately excluding him from campaign events, including the upcoming Republican primary debate.

“They’re having a big GOP endorsement where they’re having a debate and I’m not allowed to come. They’ve shut me out,” he said.

“The establishment doesn’t want me, Stephen. The Minnesota media—you wouldn’t even know I’m running.”

Lindell officially announced his candidacy for governor of Minnesota in December 2025. Less than a week later, President Donald Trump, 79, gave him his full endorsement.

““I hope he does great… That guy deserves to be governor of Minnesota,” Trump said of Lindell at a campaign rally, during one of his usual lengthy speeches, without, however, formally endorsing him.

Despite the president’s public endorsement, Lindell says it hasn’t given him an advantage. He’s crisscrossing the counties, meeting voters one by one.

During a long interview with Bannon, punctuated by a major promotion of Memorial Day mattress sales, he likened his campaign to the early days of his pillow business: going door-to-door across the state.

“I believe I am the only one that can win, and I believe I’m the only one with the solutions to our problems,” Lindell continued.

Last year, Minnesota was rocked by fraud investigations that Lindell says tarnished the reputations of his Republican rivals, including House Speaker Lisa DeMuth.

The scandal derailed Tim Walz’s plans for a third term as governor, and incumbent Senator Amy Klobuchar is seeking the Democratic nomination to succeed him.

The fraud investigation provided the president with a pretext to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into the state. This move sparked weeks of clashes between ICE agents and residents, during which two American citizens were shot and killed in separate incidents.

One of the victims, Renee Goode, was an unarmed poet and mother who was trying to flee in her car. The other, Alex Pretty, a nurse at a veterans’ hospital, was carrying a legally owned firearm but was disarmed before being shot.

Lindel claims to be the frontrunner.

“We’re running an intensive campaign, we’ve raised the most money, and we’re leading in the polls among Republicans—and we can’t achieve the same results with the same effort.”

In a Republican poll conducted in late January, Lindel led DeMuth by one point, with 18% to DeMuth’s 17%; 34% of voters were undecided.

Another poll conducted in February showed Klobuchar winning the majority of votes in a head-to-head contest between Lindel and DeMuth, with only 31% of voters supporting Lindel and 38% supporting DeMuth.

No Republican has won a statewide election in Minnesota since 2006.