What is going on in America? A celebrity eccentric known as ‘the Pillow guy’, his real name is Mike Lindell, claimed yesterday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized his mobile telephone.
Lindell, a former crack addict turned successful entrepreneur who is now a major supporter of the Trump movement, says he was returning from a hunting trip when ‘cars pulled up in front of us, to the side of us and behind us. I said, “those guys are either bad guys or the FBI.” It turns out they were the FBI.’
Lindell is a wacky guy, and his claims should be treated with scepticism. Yet there is growing evidence that the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are indeed now treating the Trump movement as a domestic terror threat.
Let’s rewind a bit. At the beginning of this month, Joe Biden gave a peculiar speech in Philadelphia. ‘Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,’ he said.
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