Eight months into Joe Biden's presidency, the MyPillow guy, Mike Lindell, staged an event in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that he promised would return Donald Trump to the White House. The three-day Cyber Symposium revolved around a mysterious cache of computer data that Lindell had surreptitiously acquired. In his telling, the data proved that Chinese hackers had manipulated American voting machines into securing Biden's victory.
"The election was stolen, and we're proving it right here, aren't we?" Lindell crowed to some 200 attendees on the first night, sweating through his suit. "President Trump is the rightful president, are you with me?"
One attendee, Bob Zeidman, who had voted for Trump twice, hoped this was true. A mild-mannered, 64-year-old Republican, Zeidman chafed at the former president's demagoguery. But he's more repelled by the Democrats, whom he believes have "gone so crazy with their wokeness and socialism." As an authority in software forensics — the art of digital problem-solving — Zeidman has been an expert witness in more than 260 court cases, including the 2021 Supreme Court battle between Oracle and Google and the fight between Mark Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins. He wanted to see the evidence of vote rigging that Lindell claimed to have collected, and he was open to the possibility that a vast conspiracy, including Democrats using mail-in voting and ballot harvesting to fabricate votes, had stolen the election from Trump.
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The story brings to mind Rudyard Kipling's poem "If": "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."
I appreciate that you are not a fanboy of one team, but rather you have common-sense principles to which prospective candidates must appeal. You are willing to apply razor-sharp logic (important to us Vulcans), and let the chips (ahem) fall where they may.
Having gotten that out of the way, let us be honest about Business Insider's political leanings. They are 100% pro-establishment. They hoped to maximize your disparagement of Lindell and Trump as anti-MAGA leverage. My reaction is that you judo-flipped the reporter, by remaining level-headed throughout the interview. Good work.