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Now Melania Trump being investigated in Florida: (Original Post) Kingofalldems Feb 2022 OP
Pretty sure they'll make one up quickly. Ooops 😏 live love laugh Feb 2022 #1
Oops! PatSeg Feb 2022 #2
She was selling tickets to a meet and greet for a charity that does NOT appear to exist Botany Feb 2022 #32
They are so used to cheating, PatSeg Feb 2022 #43
I thought the Trump family was banned from ever having another "Charity" or Foundation" Botany Feb 2022 #49
I wonder if that was just in New York? PatSeg Feb 2022 #53
Meant to post TFG raised 80 million and spent zero on "stop the steal" and GA's senate races. Botany Feb 2022 #56
Yeah, he doesn't even try to cover his tracks anymore PatSeg Feb 2022 #78
I heard that $0.37 would be donated out of the proceeds. sprinkleeninow Feb 2022 #82
I've been sort of out of touch. Maybe sounds stupid but what is an NFT. ratchiweenie Feb 2022 #94
I can't keep up with this stuff anymore PatSeg Feb 2022 #99
Thank you. I had heard of this but dimissed it from my mind because it is such a ridiculous ratchiweenie Feb 2022 #102
Oh yes, "too much time and money on their hands" PatSeg Feb 2022 #103
that COMPLETE FAMILY llashram Feb 2022 #97
A short correction to "One even became POTUS" Botany Feb 2022 #98
hell yeah llashram Feb 2022 #100
A must read Botany Feb 2022 #101
yep, no doubts here llashram Feb 2022 #105
Almost all of TFG, his people, and the right wing's talking points were in that article Botany Feb 2022 #106
yes!!! llashram Feb 2022 #107
Royalty of the golden toilet throne. Joinfortmill Feb 2022 #50
Yes, a very long time PatSeg Feb 2022 #54
FFFF holds himself in speshul high regard. Such a stable jeenyus. sprinkleeninow Feb 2022 #83
He is such a caricature of the tacky rich guy PatSeg Feb 2022 #90
'Tacky' says it precisely. sprinkleeninow Feb 2022 #104
They truly take pride in cheating. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2022 #74
Like people who cheat on their taxes PatSeg Feb 2022 #79
"They truly take pride in cheating." Yup! Like these people in Michigan? Botany Feb 2022 #92
Sex workers are just trying to make a living. plimsoll Feb 2022 #69
But, but, but, how will we ever prove she knew she was doing it? onecaliberal Feb 2022 #91
More money laundering Fullduplexxx Feb 2022 #3
This is separate from her buying her own hat, right? underpants Feb 2022 #4
Yes. Kingofalldems Feb 2022 #7
Ah, the old Trump charity scam. You'd think they could come up with something new. Vinca Feb 2022 #5
As BartCop used to say... Gidney N Cloyd Feb 2022 #15
Man, I miss BartCop. GoCubsGo Feb 2022 #20
I miss Bartcop too. I used to read him first thing every day. demigoddess Feb 2022 #41
I read him daily samplegirl Feb 2022 #77
LOL! Classic! LymphocyteLover Feb 2022 #22
Bart Cop was the BEST! OMGWTF Feb 2022 #51
Fines are the only consequences for Trump and his Klan, that's why Trump's run the same scam. sarcasmo Feb 2022 #23
It makes sense DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #30
I thought the Trumps had been BANNED from operating a charity? raging moderate Feb 2022 #45
Maybe not the Mrs. Joinfortmill Feb 2022 #52
My reading of the story leftieNanner Feb 2022 #6
it's florida. she'll get a pass. nt orleans Feb 2022 #80
Does NFT stand for Not For Trump? MiniMe Feb 2022 #8
I still don't know what it means. Kingofalldems Feb 2022 #11
NFT Timewas Feb 2022 #13
Thanks MiniMe Feb 2022 #14
Not really sure BUT Timewas Feb 2022 #16
I'm old too and not sure I even want to understand it. LoisB Feb 2022 #24
I'm in the same boat Poiuyt Feb 2022 #25
Non-fungible sounds like a poisonous... 3catwoman3 Feb 2022 #44
'Nother Fucking Trump... lame54 Feb 2022 #21
*** soldierant Feb 2022 #35
Oh well, nothing to see here! BlueJac Feb 2022 #9
Your post got me thinking and Prof. Toru Tanaka Feb 2022 #28
Undoubtedly something to do with kidneys tishaLA Feb 2022 #10
We paid for those kidneys. Kingofalldems Feb 2022 #12
Two Of A Kind...Let's Put Both Those Birthers In Jail Me. Feb 2022 #17
Non-Fungible -- we all knew she didn't care for Donny's micro-mushroom Blue Owl Feb 2022 #18
... sprinkleeninow Feb 2022 #86
Was it The Human Fund? jayschool2013 Feb 2022 #19
Malaria gives Slovanian Sex Workers everywhere Farmer-Rick Feb 2022 #26
These crooks - they all seem to find each other, don't they? calimary Feb 2022 #27
The Tell: SayItLoud Feb 2022 #29
And the grift goes on... the grift goes on. La di da di di, la di da di da... Hekate Feb 2022 #31
The grift North Shore Chicago Feb 2022 #33
Why am I not surprised? They're ALL grifters! CaptainTruth Feb 2022 #34
I think she heard "Charity begins at home" and took it literally. bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #36
IIRC, the charity was for "children" nuxvomica Feb 2022 #37
DeShitbird will get her off the hook. lpbk2713 Feb 2022 #38
In best Boris Karloff accent.... COL Mustard Feb 2022 #39
She'll look just great in an orange jump suit wryter2000 Feb 2022 #40
r&k Headlines every day, trump possible crimes and crimes. Extraordinary. n/t MerryBlooms Feb 2022 #42
Oh, I figured it was gonna be for prostitution. oldsoftie Feb 2022 #46
I want to know if she paid for that hat Retrograde Feb 2022 #47
Nope. She very likely would prefer everything being handed to her. calimary Feb 2022 #58
Ugh, Ms. Plastic Face (I know, I know it's snarky, but true) Joinfortmill Feb 2022 #48
Not just the face. SergeStorms Feb 2022 #55
Florida will do nothing. RandySF Feb 2022 #57
She is just carrying on an old randr Feb 2022 #59
Shocking.. the Plagiarizing Con POS Cha Feb 2022 #60
She doesn't give a fook about charity lunatica Feb 2022 #61
Her red flocky Christmas trees looked like they were fashioned from a 'pit of Hell' design. sprinkleeninow Feb 2022 #85
Hmm ymetca Feb 2022 #62
What's NFT? ananda Feb 2022 #63
I wish I knew. Kingofalldems Feb 2022 #64
Cliff note version FrankChurchDem Feb 2022 #72
Thanks. Kingofalldems Feb 2022 #73
She learned from the best. Or is that the worst? Martin68 Feb 2022 #65
I thought Boris and Natasha were banned BlueIdaho Feb 2022 #66
Yeah, she apparently bought her own hat back FelineOverlord Feb 2022 #67
Her favorite charity... Her! keithbvadu2 Feb 2022 #68
Just like them and RNC MFM008 Feb 2022 #70
On the bright side, she was ripping off MAGAts. SunSeeker Feb 2022 #71
A Trump engaged in fraudulent activity?? Inconceivable. What a disgusting "family" Evolve Dammit Feb 2022 #75
Hashtag on Twitter.. #BeBusted mountain grammy Feb 2022 #76
Every time I think that nobody in that family could not possibly go any lower than smirkymonkey Feb 2022 #81
If I did something like this, I'd be in prison for a few years. No questions asked. C Moon Feb 2022 #84
A couple of years ago #TrumpCrimeFamily was trending on Twitter. Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2022 #87
Known as the "stumbling grift"........ jaxexpat Feb 2022 #88
Once a con, always a con! Emile Feb 2022 #89
Grifters gonna grift.... AngryOldDem Feb 2022 #93
This message was self-deleted by its author traitorsgalore Feb 2022 #95
someone is going to slip up llashram Feb 2022 #96

Botany

(77,324 posts)
32. She was selling tickets to a meet and greet for a charity that does NOT appear to exist
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 03:50 PM
Feb 2022

So then what exactly was she doing? Could it be the world's most famous Slovenian Sex Worker
aka prostitute was grifting or running some kind of scam?

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
43. They are so used to cheating,
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 04:35 PM
Feb 2022

they don't even try to appear creditable anymore. They really think they are royalty, above it all.

Botany

(77,324 posts)
49. I thought the Trump family was banned from ever having another "Charity" or Foundation"
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 04:46 PM
Feb 2022

I guess if the rubes want to give these grifters their money fine by me but you would have
thought that when TFG raised $80 to stop the steal and to help in the Georgia Senate races
and spent zero on either some might have caught on that he was a con man.


Maybe Melania needed some get away money. The grand jury meets in May.

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
53. I wonder if that was just in New York?
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 04:58 PM
Feb 2022

Her NFT looked like a huge scam too. She said "some" of the proceeds would go to charity, but refused to say how much.

Botany

(77,324 posts)
56. Meant to post TFG raised 80 million and spent zero on "stop the steal" and GA's senate races.
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 05:50 PM
Feb 2022

"I wonder if that was just in New York?"


His whole family and crew are and were just grifters. Putin installed him into the W.H. just to fuck with America.

Don't be surprised come April he skedaddles out of the country and still 25% of Americans will still support him.

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
78. Yeah, he doesn't even try to cover his tracks anymore
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 11:08 PM
Feb 2022

And people keep sending him money. He is as obvious as a televangelist and often caters to the same audience.

You know, people have seen such devious grifters and criminals in movies and on TV for years, yet when one shows up and real life, many don't recognize him.

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
99. I can't keep up with this stuff anymore
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 02:17 PM
Feb 2022

I still can't wrap my brain around bitcoins.

Here is an explanation from The Verge.

“Non-fungible” more or less means that it’s unique and can’t be replaced with something else. For example, a bitcoin is fungible — trade one for another bitcoin, and you’ll have exactly the same thing. A one-of-a-kind trading card, however, is non-fungible. If you traded it for a different card, you’d have something completely different. You gave up a Squirtle, and got a 1909 T206 Honus Wagner, which StadiumTalk calls “the Mona Lisa of baseball cards.” (I’ll take their word for it.)

At a very high level, most NFTs are part of the Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum is a cryptocurrency, like bitcoin or dogecoin, but its blockchain also supports these NFTs, which store extra information that makes them work differently from, say, an ETH coin. It is worth noting that other blockchains can implement their own versions of NFTs. (Some already have.)

NFTs can really be anything digital (such as drawings, music, your brain downloaded and turned into an AI), but a lot of the current excitement is around using the tech to sell digital art.


https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq

There's much more in the article, but it is giving me a headache. The more I read, the more ridiculous it sounds. In the end, some people will buy anything.

ratchiweenie

(8,215 posts)
102. Thank you. I had heard of this but dimissed it from my mind because it is such a ridiculous
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 04:01 PM
Feb 2022

concept and total proof that rich people have no taste and have way too much time and money on their hands. As my husband says, all the "wealth" they have is just digits and it's not real to begin with unless we all agree that it is.

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
103. Oh yes, "too much time and money on their hands"
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 04:06 PM
Feb 2022

It is just a silly pastime for these people who have nothing constructive to do with their time and money. They live in a strange and exclusive little bubble.

llashram

(6,269 posts)
97. that COMPLETE FAMILY
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 01:57 PM
Feb 2022

nothing, but con artists and grifters. One even became POTUS. To America's chagrin and shame. I present the formers First Family of Thieves, now just a family of thieves.

Botany

(77,324 posts)
98. A short correction to "One even became POTUS"
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 02:12 PM
Feb 2022

One was even made POTUS by Russia with help and complicity from the Trump campaign, Facebook,
much if the GOP, and segments of the media.

llashram

(6,269 posts)
105. yep, no doubts here
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 01:33 PM
Feb 2022

Putin treated him like his dog. One meeting, just those two, trump came out with a pitiful hangdog look. I told a friend Putin had spanked that ass(figuratively)I guess just

Botany

(77,324 posts)
106. Almost all of TFG, his people, and the right wing's talking points were in that article
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 02:03 PM
Feb 2022

Hunter Biden, cancel culture, it was China rigging the election/machines, Ukraine with Joe Biden, and
so on. It might have well covered a Fox News show. I will always remember in the late winter/early
spring of 2020 when our foreign intelligence officers told the Congressional intelligence committees that
Russia was working to help Bernie TFG instead of going after Russia he fired the intel people.

BTW you mean this picture? Whose your Vlad Daddy, Donny?

Joinfortmill

(21,167 posts)
50. Royalty of the golden toilet throne.
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 04:48 PM
Feb 2022

It's going to take a very long time for the Trump Sh*t Show to be buried in history's tomb.

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
54. Yes, a very long time
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 05:01 PM
Feb 2022

Well, he has always wanted attention and now he has a lasting legacy - a laughing stock for the history books.

I'll never understand the damn golden toilet.

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
90. He is such a caricature of the tacky rich guy
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 10:08 AM
Feb 2022

who has no taste whatsoever. History is full of decadent, self-indulgent leaders like him and most did not end well.

SleeplessinSoCal

(10,412 posts)
74. They truly take pride in cheating.
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 09:28 PM
Feb 2022

And they're teaching by example millions of others to cheat, lie and steal if possible. And never give up trying.

Superman let us down big time...

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
79. Like people who cheat on their taxes
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 11:23 PM
Feb 2022

and brag about it. For so many people, it is a badge of honor to get away with something like it is a sporting event.

Botany

(77,324 posts)
92. "They truly take pride in cheating." Yup! Like these people in Michigan?
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 11:48 AM
Feb 2022

Filling out phony electoral ballots which they tried to introduce instead of the real ballots.


Gidney N Cloyd

(19,847 posts)
15. As BartCop used to say...
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 02:09 PM
Feb 2022
Bart's Law #2

Any time a person or entity makes a "mistake" that puts extra money (or power) in their pocket,
expect them to make that "mistake" again and again and again.


http://www.bartcop.com/bartslaw.htm

GoCubsGo

(34,914 posts)
20. Man, I miss BartCop.
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 02:48 PM
Feb 2022

I can only imagine what he would have been saying over the past six years. Good to know his page is still up.

OMGWTF

(5,131 posts)
51. Bart Cop was the BEST!
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 04:50 PM
Feb 2022

I would love to hear what he'd think about Traitor Tot and his crime family.

sarcasmo

(23,968 posts)
23. Fines are the only consequences for Trump and his Klan, that's why Trump's run the same scam.
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 02:57 PM
Feb 2022

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
30. It makes sense
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 03:28 PM
Feb 2022

that they would go to a state with the most ideal population for grifting...........

raging moderate

(4,624 posts)
45. I thought the Trumps had been BANNED from operating a charity?
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 04:37 PM
Feb 2022

I read, years ago, that it would illegal for the Trumps to organize a charity, after their last charity scam got exposed. How could this get even this far?

leftieNanner

(16,159 posts)
6. My reading of the story
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 01:53 PM
Feb 2022

indicated that the event is coming up in April. It's being booked as a fundraiser for a new "charity" set up by the First Bimbo as an extension of the Be Best Bullshit.

But the state of Florida requires that all charities soliciting $$ must be registered with the state, and her thing is not.

Oopsies.

Timewas

(2,739 posts)
13. NFT
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 02:00 PM
Feb 2022

What does NFT mean?
non-fungible token
NFT stands for non-fungible token, which basically means that it's a one-of-a-kind digital asset that belongs to you and you only. The most popular NFTs right now include artwork and music, but can also include videos and even tweets.Dec 18, 2021

Timewas

(2,739 posts)
16. Not really sure BUT
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 02:12 PM
Feb 2022

It pretty much seems to be a value of something that really has no intrinsic cash value. Basically is tied to things like Bit Coin,pretty much invisible I guess.

An example would be paying for someones tweet... Or a video they made.

Farmer-Rick

(12,667 posts)
26. Malaria gives Slovanian Sex Workers everywhere
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 03:09 PM
Feb 2022

A bad name. Let's hope she's just a bad apple.

calimary

(90,021 posts)
27. These crooks - they all seem to find each other, don't they?
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 03:09 PM
Feb 2022

Birds of a feather and all that.

SayItLoud

(1,774 posts)
29. The Tell:
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 03:20 PM
Feb 2022

Whenever TFG or ex first escort post commenting on accusations we all know the accusation is accurate.

The excuses to come:

Fake News, we are redoing the paperwork, the coffee boy did it I have no idea.


Someone, anyone please hold these grifters, traitors and scum accountable under the law or...Iran if you're listening.

nuxvomica

(14,092 posts)
37. IIRC, the charity was for "children"
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 04:01 PM
Feb 2022

So I assumed it was fake. Their "charities" have "children" in their names so they can say any critics are against helping children.

Retrograde

(11,419 posts)
47. I want to know if she paid for that hat
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 04:45 PM
Feb 2022

If she accepted it from the designer as a gift and it was valued at more than some legal limit (and we know Mel doesn't grift cheap) she was legally required to declare it and donate it to the US. If she wants to keep it, she has to pay the market rate. And somehow I don't think a Trump will spend a cent if she can avoid it.

calimary

(90,021 posts)
58. Nope. She very likely would prefer everything being handed to her.
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 06:56 PM
Feb 2022

She’s “entitled,” don’tchaknow.

Cha

(319,076 posts)
60. Shocking.. the Plagiarizing Con POS
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 07:01 PM
Feb 2022

would cheat on Funds Given to Charity?

Who in the heck is "investigating" the Gaslighting spouse of the Anti-Christ in Florida!?

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
61. She doesn't give a fook about charity
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 07:36 PM
Feb 2022

It’s right up there with Christmas decorations. Giv her a break!

sprinkleeninow

(22,343 posts)
85. Her red flocky Christmas trees looked like they were fashioned from a 'pit of Hell' design.
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 04:28 AM
Feb 2022

ymetca

(1,182 posts)
62. Hmm
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 07:41 PM
Feb 2022

Yeah, I've always felt that "Salvation" was the ultimate grift. Who needs NFT's for that?

On second thought .. lemme guess.. Pat Robertson will be selling NFT's real soon. Here's a photo of him dropping his teeth into his gazpacho --only $10,000! + Eternal Salvation at no extra cost! SUCH a DEAL!

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)
66. I thought Boris and Natasha were banned
Sat Feb 12, 2022, 08:07 PM
Feb 2022

From having any part in creating and operating a charity after their last scam.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
81. Every time I think that nobody in that family could not possibly go any lower than
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 12:50 AM
Feb 2022

they already have, it's like they buy power tools and keep digging. I have to hand it to them for their shamelessness and persistence. It really fucking amazes me.

C Moon

(13,643 posts)
84. If I did something like this, I'd be in prison for a few years. No questions asked.
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 04:27 AM
Feb 2022

My attorney would tell me to plead guilty for an easier sentence.
But the rich? This will slide. We won't ever hear about this again.
Bookmark. Then check it in a couple years.
Crickets.
Putin doesn't have to do too much to make the U.S. his, we've been heading that way since Ronald Reagan told them to tear down the wall...so our rich could exchange hands with their rich.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,484 posts)
87. A couple of years ago #TrumpCrimeFamily was trending on Twitter.
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 07:19 AM
Feb 2022

Just as apropos now.

Though, I don't really see hashtags on Twitter these days. I haven't spent much time on any social media, so maybe I'm just missing them?

 

jaxexpat

(7,794 posts)
88. Known as the "stumbling grift"........
Sun Feb 13, 2022, 08:28 AM
Feb 2022

It's when one scam gets too far ahead of the other, tripping them both. Ends in an upskirt that would make even Miley blush.

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