Well, what if I were to tell you that the family radicalized Mike Lindell? You're staring at me. No. No. No. No. No. That's what I would tell you. I would tell you no to your face, sir. Yeah. Because I don't like witches. Jonathan Larson recently wrote a piece in Salon that traces Mike Lindell's conversion to fundamentalist Christianity and hard-right politics to his attendance at the 2016 National Prayer Breakfast. My fucking God. That event is not just a breakfast. It's actually a four-day affair full of small group meetings that are probably familiar to anyone who's gone to an evangelical church, but also mix in that MLM vibe. Hey, let's not forget Obama was there. I'd recommend this article, but the short version is that Lindell went, ended up in one of these small rooms with someone praying, and he experienced a prophecy that he was going to change the course of the country. Well, he was in this prayer room with Ben Carson, who's a big member of the group, and they got to talking politics. An excerpt from Lindell's book that is featured in that salon article: quote: The dozen people in the room gathered in a circle and began talking about the critical importance of the 2016 election. We agreed it was going to be a real spiritual turning point for the country. One path could lead us toward national renewal. The other could lead us down a dark path from which there may be no return, a path that had begun with the removal of God from the public square. And I was like, we have got to go down that dark path because once they removed God, I decided it was time to destroy everything else. The religious group had successfully intertwined their religious vision and their political ambitions into Mike Lindell's head, and we all know where that's gone. Lindell supported Ben Carson, and then Ben Carson got him into Trump after Carson dropped out of the race. Anyway, it's a tangled and twisted web, but the family was deeply involved in not only supporting Trump's candidacy, but with directly scamming the shit out of Mike Lindell, which had a trickle-down effect of getting Alex out of financial hot water.