But Smartmatic machines were not connected to the internet, and they also weren’t the machines used to count or tabulate votes. Nonetheless, Lindell couldn’t stop himself from spouting these lies on every television show, radio broadcast, and podcast that would have him. Similarly, Bryan found that there was no evidence to support Lindell’s claim that Smartmatic built its voting machines to manipulate votes, either here or overseas. Before the trial, he said that Satan had assembled a coalition of “the uniparty, the Deep State, Globalists, and the [Chinese Communist Party]” to rig the 2020 election. Of all of the zany, loyal characters from the 2020 election fraud jamboree, Lindell seems to be the one most left out in the cold.