CNN Correspondent Says Mike Lindell's 'Pillows Now Helping Subvert American Democracy'

CNN Senior Correspondent Donie O'Sullivan claimed Friday that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's products are helping to undermine democracy in the US by consulting with certain right-wing broadcasters.

from Lindell conservative streaming platform, frank speechhosts broadcasters like the former Republican mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani and former adviser to former President Donald Trump Steve Bannonwho promote and apparently profit from MyPillow on their channels. O'Sullivan on “CNN News Central” claimed Lindell is “subsidized.”[ing]” broadcasters questioning the 2020 election through MyPillow advertising, arguing that this means their products are undermining democracy. (RELATED: 'WHY?': Ex-Trump official leaves CNN panel stunned by refusal to answer 'Gotcha' question)

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“We are not talking so much about allegations or false allegations of theft from the last election. But for the world Mike lives in and the world he's helped create … he's also helping fund it through his pillow codes,” O'Sullivan said.

CNN anchor Kate Bolduan chimed in to ask if “real pillows are part of the conspiracy theory universe.”

“Pillows are now helping to subvert American democracy. So you'll remember that after January 6, Trump and many of his supporters were kicked out of major social media platforms,” ​​the correspondent said. “What happened then was this rise of all these alternative social media platforms. Of course, like Truth Social. Lindell himself created his own social media platform with this video streaming service. Rudy Giuliani has a show there, Steve Bannon is there, basically … the kind of election denial band that's getting back together.”

“They're being subsidized in some way because they're promoting Mike's pillows and they all have a pillow code,” he added. “And so if you were an election-denying conspiracy theorist, you might have a 'Kate Bolduan' code. And so, every time someone watches your show, they buy the pillow … with your code , you get a cut, Mike gets a cut, and you can keep pushing these lies.”

Several supporters of former President Donald Trump told O'Sullivan during a June segment that America is a republic, with the correspondent characterizing their responses as an “attack on democracy”.

“There is, of course, a legitimate debate about what form of democracy we have here in the United States, direct democracy, representative democracy, in fact, constitutional republic, which you have heard from the people mentioned in this article, which is a form of democracy. But look, this isn't really a debate about government, it's an attack on democracy,” CNN host Omar Jimenez said. “People have heard the warnings that Trump is a danger to democracy, and so there are people trying to convince others that, well, America is not a democracy in the first place, and therefore Trump is not it can be a threat.”

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