Mike Lindell’s ridiculous “Cyber ​​Symposium” melts when it turns into clear that the scammer has been betrayed

The conference started appropriately when Lindell’s streaming service went down. This delayed the start by over an hour for those who were online, but for the in-person crowd, Lindell jumped on stage claiming the problem was – what else? – China is trying to keep him from talking.

In all fairness the attendance was ridiculous the entire time and Lindell flocked to the Sioux Falls congregation. Look at the picture from Day 2 and tell me you would be surprised if the topic of the moment was “Under the B, 7”. This is B7.

How bad was Lindell’s meeting? At the end of the third day, Lindell cursed Fox News, the right-wing Washington Times and the beyond extremist website Gateway Pundit. Fox News and Lindell have been out for weeks, and Lindell promises to stop doing MyLumpSack ads to fuel Tucker Carlson’s theater of disinformation. In fact, anecdotes about his clashes with Fox occupied a larger portion of the symposium than anything directly related to the election.

What the gateway pundit did to earn its disdain is unclear, and I really won’t look. Or care.

But how the Washington Times got Lindell’s list is much more obvious: You were talking to the guy who is supposed to be Lindell’s hand-picked cyber expert. This guy, the notorious “Spyder”, is also one of the “experts” that Rudy Giuliani consulted. Lindell advertised this man as the man who would show that the data he received showed “packet captures,” suggesting that China had hacked into US voting machines to convert “millions of votes” to Biden. What did the cyber spyder tell the Times about Lindell’s data?

“We got a shit heap.”

Not only did the data show no connection to China, but it was also not real packet captures. It’s just a semi-random series of numbers and letters that have been edited just enough to appear like it has some structure. Not even Spyder – the guy Giuliani said he backed up his nonsense – would endorse Lindell’s claims.

So what’s the real (and pretty hilarious) truth about the data Lindell was about to peddle? The truth is Scammer Lindell was taken (tough) by a much more skilled scammer. As reported by the Washington Post

This cheater is a guy called Dennis Montgomery. When it comes to shit, Montgomery has spent a long, long time polishing a certain breed: the idea that there is hidden data that communicates with [bad guy of the moment] make [that thing you want to prove]. In other words, Mike Lindell thinks he’s a smart guy when he sells rubber bags to people and calls them pillows. But Dennis Montgomery doesn’t sell anything but delusional to people who think they’re smart.

Lindell is nowhere near the first person to be arrested. As the New York Times reported in 2011, Montgomery tapped the Pentagon for $ 20 million in 2003 when he claimed he could prove that the video of Al Jazeera messages contained encrypted signals to al-Qaeda terrorists. The Bush administration actually made military and diplomatic decisions based on the classified data that Montgomery allegedly extracted from these hidden signals – before finally realizing the signals had never existed and attempted to bury any evidence for the entire program.

Montgomery also withdrew $ 100,000 from ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio after convincing him he had classified evidence of a government conspiracy against Arpaio. The Arizona Republic reported that it took Arpaio some time to admit that he had been kidnapped. In fact, it was not until Montgomery reappeared as a key figure in Trump’s allegations of electoral fraud.

At this point, Montgomery was taking millions from the Bush administration, Joe Arpaio, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Lindell by simply playing with their paranoid delusions. It’s actually admirable … if those paranoid delusions hadn’t helped hasten the fall of democracy.

The easiest cheater in any situation is the guy who thinks he’s right, thinks he’s smart, and thinks everyone else is after him. Montgomery made this thing an art.

At the end of the day, Lindell was standing on a stage in front of his huge ball of fake data shouting about Chinese attempts to shut down his server, Fox News’ role as an agent of the CIA and his attack by enthusiastic hugs. It was great fodder for nighttime hosts, but not much fun for those in attendance – half of whom appeared to be networked.

Oh, and there was that moment when Mike Lindell found out on stage that the judge had ruled that Dominion’s libel suit against him could be continued. That was special.