Mike Lindell says Nevada developer who 'proved' the election wasn't stolen is 'corrupt' and vows to appeal $5 million ruling: MyPillow CEO says he is moving on from 2020 and now wants to remove voting machines

MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell told DailyMail.com on Thursday he will appeal a judge's ruling requiring him to pay $5million to a developer who proved the election wasn't stolen. 

Lindell distanced himself from the case, noting that he was personally responsible for paying the fine, but a separate financial entity, Lindell Management LLC.

'They're not going to do that. Pay for something when every other cyber expert that was there said it was from the 2020 election,' he said in an interview with DailyMail.com. 'This guy, this is corrupt, this guy, it's all corrupt.'

MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell reacted Thursday to a judge's ruling requiring his company to pay a $5 million prize to a developer who successfully challenged the validity of 2020 election data in his possession

CEO of MyPillow Mike Lindell waves to the crowd before he speaks during a Save America rally

Lindell launched a 'Prove Mike Wrong Challenge' through his company Lindell Management LLC, for cyber experts in August 2021 claiming he had 'packet captures' data from the 2020 election that proved Chinese interference in the 2020 election. The company offered a $5 million prize if any cyber analyst could prove him wrong.

Robert Zeidman, a software developer, submitted a 15-page report concluding that the data 'unequivocally did not reflect November 2020 election data,' according to his arbitrators.

Lindell stressed he was moving on from the 2020 election and focusing on future elections with a nationwide effort to get rid of voting machines and replacing them with systems with paper ballots, verified by hand counting.

'That ship's gone, Donald Trump is going to win this election, we have to get rid of these machines to save our country,' he said. 

'We have to get rid of the machines,' he said, repeating that computerized election voting machines were vulnerable to hacking and errors.

A voter prepares to cast a ballot on an electronic voting machine inside a vote center on Election Day during the Nevada 2024 presidential primary election

Voting machines stand inside a Clark County vote center on Election Day d

Lindell criticized the effort by some Republicans to embrace early voting and voting by mail, warning of more opportunities for voter fraud.

'They're completely insane, that's an insane thought there, they're wrong, they're wrong, they're wrong,' he said.

He vowed to continue fighting for hand counted paper ballots and same day voting.

'Our elections are too important,' he said. 'It's so much easier to cheat earlier.'

'I'm trying to get rid of these electronic voting machines,' he added.