It’s probably time for MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to turn their attention to Mike Lindell, now that the pair have completed something of a reset with the president-elect. Donald Trump.

The chief executive of MyPillow, who has been a prominent promoter of false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the 2020 election, expressed some vindication after the hosts told their viewers they had encountered Trump, then saw their grades drop.

Lindell spoke on “Real America’s Voice” with host John Fredericks Thursday:

Fredericks: “What do you think of the media upheaval? Look at MSNBC and CNN: their ratings have plummeted since Trump won. In fact, they were so bad that I guess the C Suite suits sent Joe and Mika to kiss Trump’s ring at EVIL. For 6 months they called him Hitler and everything else in the book, a fascist. How do you think this ends for them?

Lindell: “You are absolutely right. The two people you mentioned – Joe and Mika – attacked me more than any other journalist in history. It was relentless. The names they called me – they attacked MyPillow directly. I could have sued them for defamation. But I just told them to hell with it.

MSNBC’s anchor team had been so critical of Trump that in September, Scarborough said “it wasn’t a stretch” to compare him to Hitler. MSNBC pulled “Morning Joe” from the airwaves Monday following the attempted assassination of Trump last summer.

On Monday’s show, the hosts said they contacted Trump last Thursday and met with him the next day. “It was the first time we’d seen him in seven years,” Brzezinski said.

She said Trump was “cheerful and optimistic,” even as the three discussed issues on which they disagreed.

There was a double-digit drop in total viewers the next day the hosts talked about their meeting with Trump.

Lindell, meanwhile, owes a software engineer $5 million for breach of contract in a dispute over data that Lindell says proves China interfered in the 2020 U.S. election and tilted the balance in favor of Joe Biden.

Lindell is also the subject of a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems in the District of Columbia, which claims he falsely accused the company of rigging the 2020 presidential election. is also the target of another defamation lawsuit in Minnesota filed by another voting machine company, Smartmatic.

Lindell admitted that he and MyPillow were struggling financially. Fox News, which had been one of its largest advertising platforms, stopped running MyPillow ads in January due to a payment dispute. Two law firms that defended him against lawsuits filed by Dominion and Smartmatic resigned last fall. He acknowledged that he I owed them millions of dollars.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.