Is Trump truly a skilled and corrupt con artist? Yes, he is and that is a proven fact. Below (as the chart above shows) is his most-recent con and it proves the point as reported on here from Business Insider and numerous other media sources with this headline:
“Donald
Trump is unlikely to get nailed with fraud charges over his campaign soliciting
donations for a non-existent official election defense fund experts say”
· Legal experts say it's unlikely that Trump will
be charged with fraud in connecting with his campaign's misleading emails.
· Trump's campaign hit up supporters for cash in
the name of a “non-existent election defense fund.”
· The campaign's tactics are under renewed
scrutiny after a January 6 committee hearing.
Trump's campaign
repeatedly hit up supporters with ominous messages that repeated the
then-president debunked claims about widespread election fraud.
The messages raked in
record donations for the beleaguered president to the tune of more
than $170 million before he even left office.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) serves on the panel, appeared to
open the door to potential fraud claims after a top investigator for the
committee documented how none of the hundreds of millions of dollars Trump's
outfit raised in the months after the election went to supporting his various
court fights.
Lofgren, who has
served as a key investigator in impeachments dating back to Nixon, told
reporters after the Monday June 13 hearing: “It's clear that he intentionally misled his donors, asked them
to donate to a fund that didn't exist and used the money raised for something
other than what he said. Now it's for someone else to decide whether that's
criminal or not.”
Experts told Insider that
while Trump or his associates may have misled donors, but there are still crucial
details that are still unknown about the fundraising strategy.
Key statement from Adav Noti, vice president and legal director at the
Campaign Legal Center who previously served as the FEC’s associate general counsel
for policy who said: “You need to prove to the jury that somebody
authorized solicitations that said the money was going to be spent on election
contests knowing that was false. You need to find the individuals, it wouldn't
be enough for criminal purposes to say, here's what happened.”
The January 6 committee revealed previously undisclosed
testimony from Trump campaign officials where they admitted that the ominous
emails directing people to support legal challenges were more of a marketing
gimmick than a serious effort to fund court battles related to the 2020
presidential election.
My 2 Cents: Time to press the DOJ to move on Trump and anyone else
connected to him and his schemes before, during, and after January 6 and the
2020 election.
Justice matters and “no
one is above the law” must be shown to the public. We need and deserve better
than we see right now. At least in my view.
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