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soothsayer

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3. On a side note, interesting story on a co-founder of that group
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 09:44 PM
Jun 2020

...who went wrong. Story is from last year, but it’s an interesting read.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/09/trump-john-lambert-students-lawsuit-jail-226802

He Founded ‘Students for Trump.’ Now He Could Face Jail Time for Impersonating a Lawyer.
Meet John Lambert, a living cautionary tale of the Trump era.

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Lambert’s rise to prominence and recent indictment offer a cautionary tale of an ambitious young man caught up in Trump’s allure — a get-rich-quick fantasy of the American dream — who allegedly managed to create his own reality on the internet, only to have the real world come barging in.

It also shines a spotlight on the chaos and confusion of Trump’s ramshackle 2016 campaign, and the cast of characters who sought fame and fortune by riding in his slipstream. Trump ran as a “law and order” candidate. But time and again, the mogul has drawn outlaws and alleged outlaws into his fold, from former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and personal fixer Michael Cohen all the way down. Though he may be the youngest, Lambert is not the first prominent Trump partisan to spend 2016 taunting Hillary Clinton about her supposed criminality, only to end up facing prison time himself instead.

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