MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a prominent ally of former President Donald Trump, had his cell phone seized by FBI agents on Tuesday in a Hardee's restaurant parking lot in Minnesota, Axios reports. The agents reportedly took his device after questioning him about a Colorado county clerk being investigated for tampering with voting equipment.
The county clerk under investigation is Tina Peters from Mesa County, Colorado. She has been indicted on state charges concerning a plot to download electronic data from voting machines following the 2020 election. Peters pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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Lindell is known to promote baseless theories that the opposition somehow stole the 2020 presidential election from Trump. It has not been made clear if Lindell is also a target of the investigation. However, the FBI field office in Denver has confirmed that they had served Lindell with a search warrant on Tuesday. Outside of that confirmation, Deborah Takahara, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Denver, said the agency had no further comment.
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