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On Jan. 15, Lindell was seen outside the Oval Office with a document appearing to detail drastic actions just days prior to Joe Biden's inauguration. Lindell confirmed to ABC News that he met with Trump and presented him with a separate packet filled with theories regarding election hacking. The theories are related to repeatedly discredited claims that Trump won the 2020 election.

Lindell told ABC News after the meeting with the president that it was \"real fast\" and that afterward Trump told an official to take the CEO to speak with White House lawyers and review Lindell's document.

Lindell said that when he was brought to speak with \"the lawyers\" they \"all of a sudden they got busy,\" and that's when he walked outside and a Washington Post photographer snapped a photo of him snagging a glimpse of another document, which he claims comes from one of the attorneys he said he's hired to investigate election fraud but would not identify to ABC News.

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PHOTO: Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow, stands outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Jan. 15, 2021.
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This photograph quickly went viral on Twitter after users speculated the document showed mentions of \"martial law\" and the \"insurrection act.\"

\"There was no mention of martial law,\" Lindell told ABC News. However, the photographed portion of that document appears to mention \"martial law\" and the \"insurrection act.\"

Another section of the notes appears to read, \"Move Kash Patel to CIA Acting\" and \"Make clear this is China/Iran.\" Much of the notes aren't visible in the photo.

When asked if he read the document that appeared to have detailed drastic actions the president could take days before leaving office, Lindell told ABC News, \"I glanced at it.\"

\"I'm going to be honest. I read that -- I don't know the names. I don't understand half the stuff on there,\" he added.

Lindell said the photographed document was just a part of the bigger packet he had brought to the White House, and that his main intention was to show the president an article that alleges multiple foreign countries hacked the 2020 U.S. election. He said during the brief time he had with the president, he spoke to him about this article.

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PHOTO: My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a briefing about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington, D.C., March 30, 2020.
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Meanwhile, White House sources stressed nothing Lindell presented was taken seriously nor would it be acted upon by administration officials.

A Twitter spokesperson told ABC News that Lindell's account had been permanently suspended on Monday \"due to repeated violations\" of its Civic Integrity Policy.

The policy forbids the use of Twitter \"for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes,\" according to the company's website.

Lindell, meanwhile, seems to think he was barred from Twitter for different reasons, telling ABC News that he was removed after \"I put up a nice thing that an employee of mine had written about me,\" suggesting this was the reason for his suspension and not writing posts that violated Twitter's terms of service.

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