Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani revealed that his consulting LLC received just over $1,200 in May from 2020 election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell’s company, MyPillow, despite the fact that he promoted the product daily on his YouTube and Rumble channels.
On the streaming site, Mr. Giuliani produces hour-long episodes in which he speaks passionately about the hottest conservative topics of the day, almost always pausing at the beginning, middle or end to promote Mr. Lindell’s product.
To Recent EpisodesAfter arguing that the Democratic Party’s “Marxism” is destroying American cities and that people need to “rise up,” Lindell’s pre-recorded ad promotes clearance sales on a variety of items, including goose down comforters, “one-of-a-kind” kitchen towels, flannel sheets, flip-flops and T-shirts, all at deep discounts thanks to the promo code “Rudy.”
Giuliani has been closely involved with Lindell since the far-right’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and has continued to promote MyPillow on X since 2021, aligning himself with Lindell and urging people to buy the pillow to “stop free speech from being snuffed out by Democrat and Big Tech censorship.”
“Practical advice: Buy #MyPillow items and give them away as gifts and any censorship attempts will fail,” Giuliani tweeted at the time.
Giuliani’s brand’s advertising has shifted to streaming sites after being banned from radio. Election conspiracy His “Rudy Giuliani Show” debuted on YouTube in May of this year after WABC dumped him.
The channel also features his other stream, “America’s Mayor Live.”
Giuliani has sizable audiences on streaming sites. He has more than 500,000 subscribers on YouTube. His hour-long streams average around 4,000 views, with some shows peaking at around 6,000. His Rumble shows have more than 80,000 subscribers and high ratings, frequently topping 10,000 views.
But new documents in Giuliani’s bankruptcy case show that Giuliani Communications LLC received $1,227 from MyPillow in May, even though Giuliani continued to promote the pillow every day.
Giuliani is Due to bankruptcy Giuliani was convicted of defamation in December for accusing two Georgia election workers of stealing votes in 2020. The workers, Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss, were awarded $148 million in damages against Giuliani.
It’s unclear whether revenue from MyPillow comes from advertising fees, affiliate sales via promo codes, or both.
Still, Lindell’s company isn’t in a position to spend big money. lawyer He said he could no longer afford the legal costs. I owe you He still faces a multi-billion dollar defamation lawsuit from the election company, despite $5 million being paid to an unknown individual who uncovered one of his biggest conspiracies.
Last August, Lindell told Steve Bannon that the company was having trouble getting financing from banks that no longer wanted to do business with it. In July, the Daily Dot reported that the company was auctioning off more than 850 items, including shipping trucks, manufacturing equipment and office furniture, to raise funds.
But the company has long partnered with conservative influencers for discount codes for its products.
Given the frequency of advertising over the past few years, the market may be oversaturated.
But MyPillow was Giuliani’s smallest source of income in May.
He raised $11,400 from supplement company Balance of Nature. Targeted That includes receiving warnings from the FDA that its claims were not credible, $8,333 from Newsmax and $15,486 from WABC for its canceled talk radio show.
He also earned $2,247 from Twitter, where he has 1.7 million followers.
Despite making tens of thousands of dollars in income, Giuliani reported a loss of $36,573 that month, which was excluding his $45,000 monthly salary from his company and his Tens of thousands Dollars are spent on Amazon purchases and subscriptions and services from Netflix, Prime Video, Kindle, Paramount+ and Apple.
Despite promising to be a responsible steward of his estate, Giuliani spent $120,000 in January and made 28 charges worth hundreds of dollars on the Apple.com Record Store on March 3rd.
The Daily Dot reported last month that Giuliani spent $9.99 that month on a documentary called “Into the Light,” which, according to the film’s Vimeo page, walks viewers through “the fundamentals of transformation from the bondage of sin to the freedom of Christ.”
The film is an “educational documentary” that seeks to show viewers how to break their porn addiction, saying “nothing hinders missions, shatters ministries, and destroys families more than pornography” and promising to “help convict, inspire, and equip you to destroy sin.”
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