Why the MyPillow guy was at the White House, explained as best we can (2016)
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... The MyPillow guy has some thoughts about invoking martial law.

On Friday, Mike Lindell, the CEO of bedding company MyPillow (you've probably seen the commercials) and an avid Donald Trump backer, went to the White House to talk to the president about some conspiracy theories. He reportedly presented Trump and his team with six pages of notes with unfounded claims that China and other countries stole the election from him along with a litany of other strange theories.

Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford captured some images of Lindell and his papers, which appeared to suggest the president was considering invoking the Insurrection Act, a law that lets the president deploy military and National Guard troops to the streets and the use of "martial law if necessary."

Lindell told the New York Times after the meeting that the notes were given to him by a lawyer he wouldn't identify. He told Times reporter Maggie Haberman that it's someone he's been working with to prove Trump really won the election and that some of the information was tied to reports Trump couldn't see otherwise because he's been banned from Twitter.

But it seems the White House wasn't picking up what Lindell was putting down: He got only a few minutes with the president and was otherwise given the runaround. He told the Daily Beast that Trump asked for him to be taken to a different room to show his findings to "the lawyers " but that after a couple of hours of waiting "the lawyers" were uninterested in his claims. He didn't even get to say goodbye to Trump. "Maybe [Trump] got busy, I don't know," he told the Daily Beast. ...