The Trump crime family is tight with its grift. If you aren’t in the inner circle—and named Trump—you are only going to get a little of the runoff from the grift. In fact, your best shot at getting that cash is to do it before it ends up inside of the Trump crime family’s coffers. If you are using the Trumps as a part of your “fundraising” efforts, you are going to be fleeced, as well.
Since leaving office, Trump has soaked up hundreds of millions in donations for his pretend “big lie” efforts and his promises of a future campaign. It’s a big business for people whose only business is trying to figure out ways to take your money. It’s important to remember: For all of his bluster, the money Trump has pulled in has definitely not been used to help any of the people that call Trump their ally. Part of this money is dedicated to the numerous legal issues the Trump crime family faces. But in the end, this money goes toward Trump and his minions continuing to live the lifestyle of a wealthy dictator in exile.
On Friday, it was reported that the Trump scam machine, besides being total hooey, has such little regard for the millions of MAGA suckers it cons that it has been fundraising off of promises of meet-and-greets—and then just blowing them off. That’s some cold-blooded hubris.
The Washington Post reports that Trump’s political action groups promoted a contest for small-dollar donors in a series of more than a dozen emails. Give a little money and you would be entered into a contest of sorts to be flown out and put up in a New Orleans hotel, with a chance to shake the short stubby hand of the disgraced, twice-impeached Trump in person. That was supposed to happen this past weekend. According to four people WaPo spoke with, nobody was flown out and nobody except big-check donors got a chance to meet the former president.
Spokesman Taylor Budowich told the Post that “Due to an administrative error in this individual circumstance, the contest winner was not properly notified for last weekend’s event in New Orleans. Consistent with the rules of the sweepstakes, a substitute prize will be awarded to the winner.” Considering that no plane arrangements or hotel arrangements were made, that seems like a rather large “error.” It’s sort of like you promised something, took people’s money, and then just went to New Orleans using their money to pay for your trip to New Orleans.
Offering up false hopes, even ones like meeting the grotesque groping Trump, seems to be the basic operating procedure for Trump fundraisers. The Trump machine created a large revenue stream peddling baseless election fraud claims. Every single claim has been refuted numerous times, and the hundreds of millions of dollars pulled in has not led to a single shred of meaningful election fraud evidence coming forward. In fact, Daily Kos’ Hunter just reported on how the conman’s campaign has decided to use the engine failure of someone else’s private jet to try and fundraise himself a new private plane.
The latter is an old scam used in recent years by evangelical Christian leaders. The Word of God needs jet fuel and private accommodations in order to be spread comfortably. Not unlike the evangelicals who gave up their God for the anti-Christ Trump and a few Supreme Court nominees, Trump’s Save America PAC is willing to say and do anything to keep the expensive lights on. Here’s another story about the Save America PAC from The Washington Post:
Maybe they were too lazy to vet this guy?
The Washington Post asked Save America to provide winners for a series of other contests it has held, which included meeting the president at a rally in South Carolina this weekend, meeting Trump at his palatial Florida club last year, playing golf with Trump and Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker in Palm Beach, or receiving commemorative memorabilia — such as a football signed by Trump and Walker, a College Football Hall of Famer.
Save America “declined to comment” but said they totally have met winners and stuff. My guess is that they can produce those winners’ names about as readily as they can produce the evidence that millions of fraudulent votes were cast or switched to President Joe Biden during the 2020 election.
How much money the PAC was able to pull in as a result of this New Orleans scam will not be known until later this year, when the PAC reports contributions. At least that’s technically the law. Considering how Trump’s campaigns and foundation and inaugural committees have worked in the past, it is probably safe to say things are already steeped in swamp water.
