MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell expects a loss of $65 million in revenue in 2021, he told a news outlet on Tuesday. The 59-year-old expects losses as this year retailers have boycotted the company over Lindell’s claims that last year’s November 3 US election was rigged. Lindell’s statement came after Dominion Voting Systems on Monday sued MyPillow, seeking $1.3 billion in damages. 

Lindell has remained an ardent supporter of former president Donald Trump, who has claimed several times claimed that last year’s elections were rigged, for years. After Trump lost the presidential elections to Joe Biden, the MyPillow CEO, echoing with the former president’s words of rigged elections, said that Dominion rigged the election.

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After Dominion’s lawsuit, which alleges that Trump ally Lindell used conspiracy theories about the US election to boost sales of MyPillow, the 59-year-old told the Business Insider, “I lost 20 retailers, and it’s cost me $65 million this year that I won’t get back, OK?” 

Dominion’s defamation attorney, Tom Clare in the 121-page lawsuit wrote, “Lindell – a talented salesman and former professional card counter – sells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows,” the Insider report said. 

However, Lindell’s statement that he is expecting losses for MyPillow shows he did not push the false claims of rigged elections to boost up the sales of his company.  

Clare in the lawsuit wrote that MyPillow hit the jackpot with Trump’s endorsement and after “a million-dollar bet on Fox News ads had paid out handsome returns.” Dominion further said, “…Michael Lindell exploited another chance to boost sales: marketing MyPillow to people who would tune in and attend rallies to hear Lindell tell the ‘Big Lie’ that Dominion had stolen the 2020 election,” quoted the Business Insider.