MyPillow chief govt Mike Lindell talks to reporters on the Republican National Committee winter assembly in Dana Point, Calif., Friday, Jan. 27, 2023.

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MyPillow chief govt Mike Lindell talks to reporters on the Republican National Committee winter assembly in Dana Point, Calif., Friday, Jan. 27, 2023.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — An arbitration panel has ordered MyPillow chief govt Mike Lindell to pay $5 million to a software program engineer for breach of contract in a dispute over information that Lindell claims proves that China interfered within the U.S. 2020 elections and tipped the end result to Joe Biden.

But Lindell instructed The Associated Press on Thursday that he has no intention of paying and that he expects the dispute to land in courtroom.

Lindell, a outstanding promoter of false claims that voting machines had been manipulated to steal the 2020 presidential election, launched his “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge,” as a part of the “Cyber Symposium” he staged in South Falls, South Dakota, in August 2021, to additional his theories. Lindell provided by way of one in every of his firms a $5 million reward for anybody who may show that “packet captures” and different information he launched there weren’t legitimate information “from the November 2020 election.”

Robert Zeidman entered the problem with a 15-page report that concluded the info from Lindell didn’t “contain packet data of any kind and do not contain any information related to the November 2020 election.” A panel of contest judges that included a Lindell lawyer declined to declare Zeidman a winner. So Zeidman filed for arbitration below the competition guidelines.

After conducting an evidentiary listening to in Minneapolis in January, the three arbitrators on Wednesday ordered Lindell to pay Zeidman $5 million.

“He proved the data Lindell LLC provided, and represented reflected information from the November 2020 election, unequivocally did not reflect November 2020 election data,” the arbitrators wrote. “Failure to pay Mr. Zeidman the $5 million prize was a breach of the contract, entitling him to recover.”

The arbitrators ordered Lindell to pay up inside 30 days.

“They clearly saw this as I did — that the data we were given at the symposium was not at all what Mr. Lindell said it was,” Zeidman stated in a press release Thursday. ‘The fact is lastly on the market.”

Zeidman lawyer Brian Glasser stated the arbitrators’ ruling marked “another important moment in the ongoing proof that the 2020 election was legal and valid,” and that Lindell’s claims concerning the validity of his information had been “definitively disproved.”

Lindell disputed that and stated he intends to launch further information within the coming weeks or months that can show his claims of Chinese interference within the 2020 elections and validate what he put out earlier.

“It’s going to end up in court,” Lindell stated. “I’m not going to pay anything. … He didn’t prove anything.”

Lindell is already the topic of a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems within the District of Columbia that claims Lindell falsely accused the corporate of rigging the 2020 presidential election. He’s additionally the goal of a separate defamation lawsuit in Minnesota by a unique voting machine firm, Smartmatic.

Lindell stated it is unusual that the arbitrators dominated a day after Dominion settled its defamation lawsuit in opposition to Fox News for almost $800 million. and steered it is all an effort to get him to finish his campaign in opposition to digital voting machines.

“I’ll spend everything I have to save the country I love,” Lindell stated.