The first is many members of Trump’s inner circle know he lost the election and told him so many times. Despite this, Trump continued to lie to the American public, promoting conspiracy theories that claimed he had won – the one his own attorney general, speaking before the committee, called “”nonsense, bullshit.“
A second set of startling facts uncovered by committee investigators reveals how brazen Trump is trick his followersflee them to fill his campaign coffers and increase the prospects of himself and his family.
The committee, in possession of hundreds of thousands of documents, revealed that Trump had cashed in on the false claim that he had been duped for winning the last presidential election, using it to trick his supporters.
Amanda Wick, an investigative adviser on the House Select Committee, reports that the Trump campaign raked in $250 million from his statements, sending out millions of emails – millions – from Election Day. election until January 6, maintaining that the money is for the “official election protection fund.” That fund does not exist.
Instead, Trump poured cash into his Save America PAC, where he can use it with some restrictions. Some funds have been transferred to Trump Hotel Collectionand a non-profit organization founded and operated by his human resources director, Mark Meadows.
Following Monday’s hearing, Representative Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat and lead member of the committee, told CNN that the panel has evidence of how the Trump family benefited from the money Trump raised.
She gave an infuriating detail. Kimberley Guilfoyle, girlfriend of Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., received a cool $60,000 for a speech introduced her boyfriend at the “Stop the Steal” rally before the attack on the Capitol.
America’s Turning Pointa conservative pro-Trump organization, reportedly paid Guilfoyle for a speech that lasted less than three minutes on January 6, 2021, according to multiple people familiar with the payment.
Lofgren says the reason Trump continues to lie about the election is precisely because it allows him to raise cash. That could be one of the reasons. We now know that the former president’s entire life seems to have been driven by two irresistible needs. One is to make money – a lot – at any cost. Another, related to the first one, is to show that he is strong, invincible even – never a “loser.“
But he’s the loser in the election, and by all signs he knows it. Deny it, even if unreasonable groundssatisfy both needs.
Trump’s alleged campaign was underway long before Election Day. He showed no discomfort at tricking his supporters. In one of the shameless scamTrump’s campaign has pulled out tens of millions of dollars by setting up a donation page on the campaign’s website by default, turning all donations into recurring paymentas reported last year by the New York Times.
The scam has collected a large amount of money. Among those caught up in it were Trump supporters – including a cancer patient – who have seen their bank account drained. Complaints about overflowing plans scam line at credit card companies, as reported by the Times. Despite releasing more $122 million cashbackcampaign spokesman Jason Miller downplay the controversyDebate campaign records show only a small percentage of complaints.
Not content with that removal, the campaign added another default setting, the so-called “money bomb“double the Trump supporters’ donations they took to the bloodsuckers.
Ultimately, the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee, and their shared accounts were forced to return hundreds of thousands of donations worth tens of millions of dollars.
Trump’s campaign violations are consistent with Trump’s own decades-long track record of fueling financial problems, regardless of the consequences for others.
Who can forget Trump “University”, which salesman was involved in the scam describe in the affidavit as “a fraudulent conspiracy [that] preying on the old and illiterate to separate them from their money”? Trump paid a $25 million in legal settlement in case.
There is also the Trump Foundation, a joint venture that prosecutors called “more than a checkbook to serve Trump’s business and political interests. ” As part of that settlementTrump has forced to admit wrongdoing In some cases.
The man who will become president of the United States continues his scam while in the White House. The nonpartisan watchdog Citizen for Accountability and Ethics in Washington (CREW) detailed thousands of conflicts of interest during Trump’s presidency, saying the former president left behind.a legacy of deep corruption. “
The point is, he didn’t leave it behind. The corruption continued: “His lies about the election – and the enigma that depended on them – continued.”
CREW said Trump, who ran in 2016 as a law and order candidate promised to “drain the swamp”, did the exact opposite, using his power in office to enrich himself. He keeps his businesses and assets, regularly promotes them, and leverages them as an easy way for lobbyists and special interests to essentially pay him. incentives. As the report from ethics experts noted, “influence has been sold“with a path running through Trump’s personal businesses.
The biggest problem is that a corrupt president often makes decisions based on what benefits him and his party, rather than his country.
Trump took advantage of his supporters and defrauded the country. If that wasn’t troublesome enough, he maybe preparing to do it all again.
All very disturbing, but not very surprising.
