I know it’s weird to say this while reposting a reporter reporting it, but “unhinged lunatics are advising the president by spreading insane baseless un-American conspiracy theories” is wildly underreported in the press right now.
Whatever Lindell's level of influence on this, when he talks, the president listens. According to other sources with direct knowledge of the matter, Trump tells people that whenever Lindell sees him, he brings up "the machines," & says Lindell is relentless on this in ways that nobody else is.
