As Mike Lindell’s cyber symposium continues it seems the investigative expert he hired has already stabbed him in the back. Josh Merritt, the cyber expert hired by Lindell to analyze evidence collected by Lindell claiming to prove China-based hackers helped rig voting machines to swing the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor has turned on his employer. Speaking to a reporter from The Washington Times, Merritt ripped Lindell’s claims and said that he can’t prove Lindell’s claims.

Mediaite reports:

Lindell claims to have 37 terabytes of network data that will prove a large-scale cyberattack occurred on America’s voting systems. Unfortunately for him, Merritt has told the Times that these “packet captures” are unrecoverable, and Lindell’s data cannot prove any malfeasance from China.

“So our team said, we’re not going to say that this is legitimate if we don’t have confidence in the information,” Merritt said. He also added that Lindell is cancelling the $5 million offer he was apparently going to give to any in-seminar attendee who can disprove his claims.

The Times reports that cyber experts at the symposium were frustrated with Lindell for not providing them with his data, even though Lindell appears to be recycling video from his debunked election fraud documentary and trying to pass it off as his packet captures. Even so, Merritt thinks the data accomplished something, for he claims it held “forensic” proof that voters were manipulated somehow.

“We were handed a turd and I had to take that turd and turn it into a diamond,” he said. “And that’s what I think we did.”

Merritt’s betrayal comes as Lindell just received news that his attempts to dismiss Dominion Voting System’s $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit were unsuccessful.