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Trump ally Mike Lindell torn apart by MAGA judge
When Trump’s Court Finally Says No to His Fraud MerchantsThe headline storyMike Lindell, one of Donald Trump’s loudest allies, has been ordered by a Trump-appointed federal judge to pay a contempt penalty after years of refusing to pay sanctions tied to his false attacks on Smartmatic. The amount is not symbolic: $51,500 in daily contempt penalties, with a deadline of Aug. 21. That is the basic fact pattern. Everything else is the familiar noise of a movement that mistakes defiance for innocence.The power is not with LindellThe actual institutional power here sits with the court, not with the…
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