As the Department of Justice continues to search for dirt on Donald Trump, (some 19 months after he’s left office), their ever-widening net is now being cast in simply absurd situations.
Not only did armed FBI agents descend on Mar-a-Lago to snatch up dozens of boxes of documents that Donald Trump had already allegedly declassified, but now they’re aggressively antagonizing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell as he stops for fast food on a hunting trip.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a supporter of Donald Trump who has espoused the former president’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, said he was served a federal subpoena Tuesday and that his phone was seized.
Lindell claimed in a video posted online Tuesday that FBI agents approached him after he ordered food at a Hardee’s drive-thru in Mankato, Minnesota. Patrick McSweney, an attorney for Lindell, confirmed in an email to CBS News that the subpoena was served and Lindell’s cell phone was confiscated.
The dramatic incident was recounted by Lindell.
“We pull ahead and a car comes perpendicular and parks a little ways in front of us, and I’ve been around the block, and I said to my buddy, I said, ‘uh that’s either a bad guy, or it’s FBI,” Lindell said in the video.
Lindell would go on to suggest that the agents were all well-behaved, and that none “had an attitude”.
Former President Donald Trump was not so serene about the situation, however, posting the following on Truth Social:
