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Mon Jun 13, 2022, 05:29 PM Jun 2022

Jan. 6 Committee Proves The Big Lie Was A Big Rip-Off

The January 6th committee demonstrated how Donald Trump used the Big Lie to scam small donors out of $250 million.


But Trump was not just content to dupe his followers, he snookered them into lining his pockets, too. In a powerful video presentation, the committee showed how Trump used the Big Lie to raise $250 million he claimed would go to a non-existent “Official Election Defense Fund.”

By NewsHound Ellen — June 13, 2022
Much of Monday’s hearing was spent demonstrating that Donald Trump had rejected the advice of some of his most trusted and capable advisers in order to seize on the Big Lie, as promoted by an apparently drunk Rudy Giuliani.

But Trump was not just content to dupe his followers, he snookered them into lining his pockets, too. In a powerful video presentation, the committee showed how Trump used the Big Lie to raise $250 million he claimed would go to a non-existent “Official Election Defense Fund.”





Most of the funds went to Trump’s newly created PAC, The Save America PAC, not to election-related litigation, senior Investigating Counsel Amanda Wick told viewers. (That bill seems to have been sent to the RNC.)

Instead, the PAC gave millions to pro-Trump organizations, such as $1 million to the Conservative Partnership Institute, Trump Chief of Staff (and probable actual voter fraudster) Mark Meadows’ charitable foundation, and $1 million to the loyalist-filled America First Policy Institute. More than $200,000 went directly to the Trump Hotel Collection and more than $5 million to the company that ran Trump’s January 6 rally.

The emails were so successful at fund raising, Wick said, that the Trump campaign sent millions of them to his supporters, sometimes as many as 25 a day. Nearly $100 million from small donations was raised in the first week after the election.

“30 minutes after the last fundraising email was sent, the Capitol was breached,” Wick added.


https://crooksandliars.com/2022/06/jan-6-committee-proves-big-lie-was-big-rip
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Jan. 6 Committee Proves The Big Lie Was A Big Rip-Off (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jun 2022 OP
The Big Ripoff WiVoter Jun 2022 #1
I used to get 5-10 a day. Imagine how many I'd get if i actually... TreasonousBastard Jun 2022 #2
I get ten a day from John Fetterman central scrutinizer Jun 2022 #3
The Big Con Native Jun 2022 #4
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