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Newsmax anchor bails from interview when MyPillow CEO won't drop election fraud claims

Bret Gibson
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Michael Lindell, CEO of My Pillow, Inc., waits to go into the West Wing of the White House.

A Newsmax anchor walked off the set Tuesday when an interview with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell went off the rails.

Lindell, a vocal and financial Donald Trump supporter, refused to answer questions yet continued to spout claims of conspiracy theories and voting fraud from the 2020 election.

The far-right channel’s host, Bob Sellers and his co-anchor Heather Childers had difficulties to get their words in edgewise.

The Newsmax hosts wanted to discuss “cancel culture” but were voided out by the Trump surrogate.

Lindell continued to rant without evidence that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the election against the former president ― even though the company has threatened legal action against him, as well as many others who have echoed the sentiments.

“We at Newsmax have not been able to verify any of those kinds of allegations,” Sellers was able to sneak in. “We just want to let people know that there’s nothing substantive about them.”

But Lindell kept his vocal barrage, prompting Sellers to give up.

“Can we get out of here, please?,” Sellers pleaded to producers.

As Childers attempted regain the interview, Sellers rose up from his chair and walked out of the camera’s view.

Bret Gibson is a TribLive digital producer. A South Hills resident, he started working for the Trib in 1998. He can be reached at bgibson@triblive.com.

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