For Trump, one last fundraising scam before leaving office

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For Trump, one last fundraising scam before leaving office
Team Trump isn't just lying to supporters about the election results; they're also playing a highly sketchy game with their own financial supporters.

Nov. 12, 2020, 8:42 AM EST
By Steve Benen


(MSNBC) Donald Trump has an unusually ugly record when it comes to separating those he perceives as fools from their money. After all, the outgoing Republican president ran a fraudulent charitable foundation, and created a fraudulent "university" which was designed to do little more than rip off its "students."

The Republican never fully abandoned these practices after arriving in the White House. Indeed, this Reuters report yesterday suggested Trump is trying to pull off one last fundraising scam before leaving office.

As President Donald Trump seeks to discredit last week's election with baseless claims of voter fraud, his team has bombarded his supporters with requests for money to help pay for legal challenges to the results: "The Left will try to STEAL this election!" reads one text. But any small-dollar donations from Trump's grassroots donors won't be going to legal expenses at all, according to a Reuters review of the legal language in the solicitations.

It's effectively a scam wrapped in a scam. Team Trump starts by falsely telling its followers that there's an election conspiracy -- indeed, the campaign has sent dozens of messages along these lines to donors in recent days -- which it then follows by encouraging supporters to help combat the made-up conspiracy by sending the president's political operation some money. .............(more)

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/ncna1247527?

[Mike 03]

1. Haha. This reminds me of some of the people who were taken advantage of

by Steve Bannon and his "Build the Wall" scam.

When interviewed, some of them proudly proclaimed they were happy to have been taken advantage of and would give money to it again if given the opportunity.

("Owning the libs", I suppose)

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. "Let Trump be Trump." Indeed. That's what he's doing. nt