A GOP donor gave $2.5 million for a voter fraud investigation. Now he wants his money back.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Like many Trump supporters, conservative donor Fred Eshelman awoke the day after the presidential election with the suspicion that something wasn’t right. His candidate’s apparent lead in key battleground states had evaporated overnight.

The next day, the North Carolina financier and his advisers reached out to a small conservative nonprofit group in Texas that was seeking to expose voter fraud. After a 20-minute talk with the group’s president, their first-ever conversation, Eshelman was sold.

“I’m in for 2,” he told the president of True the Vote, according to court documents and interviews with Eshelman and others.

“$200,000?” one of his advisers on the call asked.

“$2 million,” Eshelman responded.

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Now, he wants his money back.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-gop-donor-gave-dollar25-million-for-a-voter-fraud-investigation-now-he-wants-his-money-back/ar-BB1dHKOK?ocid=DELLDHP&li=BBnbfcL

[soothsayer]

1. I hope he gets it ... and gives it to Marc Elias

[SharonClark]

2. A fool and his money are soon parted.

[DeminPennswoods]

13. Hammer meet nail

nt

[badhair77]

3. I hope he gets it

and others follow.

[mr_lebowski]

7. If hope he gets it, AND people go to jail for this fraud ...

But if his $2M is tied up until, say, 2025, as 'evidence' I won't be broken up about it.

[SharonClark]

4. He gave it to grifters.

from the arrticle...

Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party collected $255 million in two months, saying the money would support legal challenges to an election marred by fraud. Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress also raised money off those false allegations, as did pro-Trump lawyers seeking to overturn the election results — and even some of their witnesses.

[mr_lebowski]

5. Ha!

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!!!

[Vinca]

6. Sorry, pal. They don't call it the Trump black hole for nothing.

[onecaliberal]

8. A fool and his money are soon parted.

[dalton99a]

9. Fucker has too much money.

[struggle4progress]

10. Dear Fred -- I am write you because dream I had from being asleep

that you honest man can help me and also be much your benefit. Please to allow me introduce myself. I am late daughter of King for the country of Africa who was disappear by my evil stepmother while I am asleeping through several year. She do this only for money and also to stop election here. But lucky because I have secret bank account with seven million Africa dollars in National Bank of Africa which my dream says to share with honest man you. Need only $US100000 by tomorrow to bribe official to allow me to transfer money to your bank account so that you can share with me. Also need bank account number so we can wire transfer. All is completely safe and legal. Please must contact me now so we can quickly. Your new good friend, Princess Wahvin Garmsalla Bout

[central scrutinizer]

11. Perfect!

LOL!

[11 Bravo]

12. LMFAO! I wish I could rec this!

[dalton99a]

19. +1

[ARPad95]

28. Hello, Princess Waving Arms All About!

Can I have some of your money, too? Problem is I don't have $100000 to send to you first.

[HAB911]

14. thoughts and prayers

[UpInArms]

15. Poor Fred

That was an expensive bad judgment call ... you were stupid and now you have buyer’s remorse.

Suck on it. Your money went to trump and, ya know, grifters gotta grift.

[Digger]

16. Haha

Once again, PT Barnum is proven right.

[Midnight Writer]

17. Fred probably wants that money back so he can give it to Steve Bannon to Build The Wall.

[aikoaiko]

18. Well, I gave $20 to Jill Stein for a Wisconsin recount in 2016

I guess this pot can't call that kettle black.

[BlueNProud]

20. I'm guessing he inherited that $ because he is a damn fool.

and what polls was he looking at?

[GemDigger]

21. I hope he does NOT get it back and I hope the nonprofit group

goes to jail.

[Tactical Peek]

22. The attempt to expose "voter fraud" exposed the "voter fraud" fraud.

Thanks for playing, Fred.

[bif]

23. Cry me a river, dumb shit!

[Gothmog]

24. Juanita Jean knows the head of True the vote

Susan used to live near the founder of True the Vote. https://juanitajean.com/true-the-vote/

This will not be the first time, or even the third or eighth time, you have read about Cathy Engelbrecht here at the beauty salon. She’s been on our radar for ten years when she was speaking in church basements and VFW halls in the Houston area, pushing the idea that it’s too damn easy to vote. She would get the attendees name and addresses, mostly very old people, and send them requests for money. She didn’t like my questions and quickly named me “that woman” and told people I was a reporter as she rolled her eyes.

She had difficulty giving me any examples of the horror of illegal voting that she claimed was killing America. I could give her a couple of examples that happened right in her neighborhood, but they were both Republicans. She quickly informed me that she wasn’t talking about just two people, she was talking about hundreds, thousands. She just didn’t know any of them.

And then the third example hit. The Republican man she was personally supporting for county commissioner voted in two states for three elections and I had his signature to prove it. I wrote about it in the newspaper and he was defeated soundly.

I once described her as an attractive woman with a dollar sign on her forehead. She always had her hand out. She was far more concerned with raising money than illegal voting.

And now the Washington Post says she’s being sued for taking $2 million from a donor and producing the same thing I saw her produce – diddle squat.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did. If you do read it don’t get excited and skip over the part where she’s mattress thrashing with a member of her board of directors. Look, I don’t want to slut shame another woman, but she rolled her eyes at me and that gives me a free shot. I’m taking it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. Anyone who urgently gave cash to "True the Vote" is a sucker who had it coming

They've been running the con on gullible Republicans for longer than Trump. A "small conservative nonprofit group"!!!

[mountain grammy]

25. Ha sucker!

[MissMillie]

27. Investigations... 2 under GWB and one under DJT...

the investigations keep showing that "voter fraud" is not an issue in deciding elections.

They're not looking for truth. They're looking for someone to validate their theories.

And they'll spend whatever it takes to get that validation.