The GOP continues to fan the flames of the Big Lie(s): everything from false claims of mass election fraud all the way over to the baseless claims that the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is some secret domestic terrorist organization. Every few months both of these accusations are shown to not only be demonstrably false but are in fact almost always being perpetrated by the right-wing sheep of the country.
On Tuesday, 30-year-old Trump follower Denis Molla pleaded guilty to wire fraud. That’s not big news by itself, but the wire fraud Molla perpetrated was insurance fraud. That insurance fraud amounted to “hundreds of thousands of dollars after the 2020 incident at his Minneapolis-area residence,” and also had about $78,000 of GoFundMe money connected to it. This “incident” at his residence took place in September 2020 when Molly said that BLM supporters and/or Biden supporters painted "Biden 2020 BLM (A)" and set fire to his garage doors. Molla said that he thought the motivation might have been that he flew a “Trump 2020” flag out front of his home. At the time, most Americans who hadn’t been swallowed whole by the ultra-right-wing-o-sphere propaganda machine looked at this event with a jaundiced eye.
It turns out we were all right. Prosecutors charged Molla with being the domestic terrorist that vandalized and set fire to his own property. He was indicted in July. On Tuesday it ended with a plea deal.
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Back in 2020, Molla tried to strike a conciliatory note about how “It doesn’t matter what party we are, Republican, Democratic — I think this is just over and beyond terrible.” It wasn’t over, of course. Molla needed to put in a $300,000 insurance claim for the damage as well as crowdsource close to $80,000 pretending he was the victim of BLM and Biden hooligans. Molla was able to pull in about $61,000 from the insurance and $17,000 from his GoFundMe before prosecutors put the brakes on his cry-baby crime.
From the beginning, many looked at the strange mixed message of vandalism: BLM. Joe Biden for president in 2020. Anarchists? Antifa? At the time, Molla told WCCO that the first thing he thought about as the fire raged was “my kids, my wife, what’s going on? It just shocked me.” He proceeded to say the tragically ironic: “This kind of stuff should not happen, especially over beliefs of some sort.”
Molla cried through the Tuesday court proceedings where he pled guilty to one of the counts of wire fraud in a plea deal that ensures he doesn’t receive the maximum sentence of 20 years. Instead, he will face up to four years in prison when he is sentenced by the judge at a later date.