Trump 2.0 - Grifters, Inc.

 

The Grift administration

Sure, but technically, Central America is not "overseas". 

[Patel has a] long history of grifts where he sold clothing, boots, children’s books, Christmas ornaments - the list is almost as endless as Trump’s. He made being in Trump’s orbit a business, and attended one MAGA conference after another to sell his trinkets. He even appeared on crazy MAGA “prophet” Julie Green’s podcast, knowing she had a huge audience of ultra-gullibles who would fall for anything.

Perhaps the most egregious grift from Patel was in 2022 when he sold magic pills that were supposed to “reverse the vaxx” and “cleanse” people’s bodies of MRNA who received a covid vaccine. Patel was constantly in search of scams to fleece the rubes out of their cash. He learned from the Grifter Supreme.

  Meidas Touch

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

A "very important" Space National Guard

LOL  He's talking to a National Guard unit, so he gets cheers when he mentions this brilliant idea.  Why?  They're already in the National Guard. Do they want a different assignment? 

He already created a Space Force (which was a wonderful Steve Carell TV series, btw).  Now we need a Space National Guard.  What will they do?  Does America own a piece of space they'll be covering?  We have an Air National Guard, don't we? 

Also, I wonder what cut he gets of the grift from Newsmax scams advertised on screen every time he gives a talk.  Probably the biggest cut.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 07:08 am:  

Supreme Court rulings, Wednesday, June 26

Which is as much help as they can give Trump this session without ruling that a president is immune from prosecution for everything and for all time.

And don't forget - the debate is tomorrow.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 11:19 am:

Who are you kidding?  Take a wild guess.

UPDATE 01:35 pm:  

So, let me ask:  If the document in question is the opinion, why couldn't they announce that opinion today?  They have about 10 decisions to get through in the next 2 days, or they'll have to add extra decision days in July.  They only did two today.

Let me guess:  They want to postpone the immunity decision until they are absolutely 100% positive there is no way on earth Judge Chutkan can get the January 6 trial underway before November.  Am I close?

Anyway, this decision is the absolute least they could do in this case. Allow emergency cases to be treated. Wow. How liberal.

Okay, so maybe they'll reconsider after the debate/election when it comes back around.

UPDATE 02:24 pm:

UPDATE 06/27/2024:

All grift, all the time

Trump himself said as much.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

For profit insurrection

An Associated Press review of court records shows that prosecutors in the more than 1,000 criminal cases from Jan. 6, 2021, are increasingly asking judges to impose fines on top of prison sentences to offset donations from supporters of the Capitol rioters.

Dozens of defendants have set up online fundraising appeals for help with legal fees, and prosecutors acknowledge there’s nothing wrong with asking for help for attorney expenses. But the Justice Department has, in some cases, questioned where the money is really going because many of those charged have had government-funded legal representation.

  AP

The grifting business is booming in this country.

Most of the fundraising efforts appear on GiveSendGo, which bills itself as “The #1 Free Christian Fundraising Site” and has become a haven for Jan. 6 defendants barred from using mainstream crowdfunding sites, including GoFundMe, to raise money.

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So far this year, prosecutors have sought more than $390,000 in fines against at least 21 riot defendants, in amounts ranging from $450 to more than $71,000, according to the AP’s tally.

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Separately, judges have ordered hundreds of convicted rioters to pay more than $524,000 in restitution to the government to cover more than $2.8 million in damage to the Capitol and other Jan. 6-related expenses.

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GiveSendGo co-founder Heather Wilson said her site’s decision to allow legal defense funds for Capitol riot defendants “is rooted in our society’s commitment to the presumption of innocence and the freedom for all individuals to hire private attorneys.”

But some didn't hire private attorneys. They're just grifters. Who would have imagined people who plotted to overthrow the government would be grifters?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Not even death can stop the grift

Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway, a member of the Diamond and Silk duo who gained national attention for their staunch support for former President Trump, has died at the age of 51.

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“The World just lost a True Angel and Warrior Patriot for Freedom, Love, and Humanity! Please respect the privacy of Diamond’s family!” the Twitter account for the duo posted Monday night.

The tweet did not state a cause of death.

The post included a link for people to give contributions to Richardson aimed at “Preserving Diamond’s Legacy.”

  The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Is there a grifting competition in Trump world?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Another MAGA grift

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Trump should have been impeached

The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis asked HHS, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Archives to turn over more records on the prior administration’s procurement of protective gear as part of an ongoing investigation.

“We are concerned that the previous administration may not have conducted sufficient diligence prior to awarding multi-million-dollar contracts, and that White House officials may have placed inappropriate pressure on federal agencies to award contracts to particular companies,” Subcommittee chair Jim Clyburn and other panel Democrats wrote in letters obtained by POLITICO.

What the documents say: A memo the committee obtained that was sent by White House trade adviser Peter Navarro in March 2020 warned that the then-isolated cases of Covid-19 would balloon into “a very serious public health emergency” and lamented that “movement has been slow” to prepare. The memo advised the president to shore up domestic supply chains for PPE and accelerate development of diagnostics and therapeutics.

  Politico

But his approach was to try and imprison infected and non-infected tourists alike on a cruise ship that came into port so they wouldn't come into the country and increase "the numbers".

In the months that followed, according to other documents the committee released Wednesday, Navarro and other senior officials and outside advisers pushed federal agencies to give no-bid contracts for pharmaceutical ingredients and other supplies to companies that were recently formed and had political ties with the Trump administration.

The Trump years were one big grift.  We're going to find out ever more evidence in the months and years ahead.

One deal under investigation is a $354 million contract awarded to the Phlow Corporation — a first-time government contractor that had incorporated just a few months before receiving the funds. It was the largest contract ever awarded by BARDA, and it followed a series of emails from Navarro to agency leaders in March of 2020.

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The panel is also investigating a $3 million federal contract given to a company formed by former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Zachary Fuentes to provide respirator masks to the Navajo Nation through the Indian Health Services. Fuentes’ company received the contract just 11 days after its creation.

“When the respirator masks were delivered, IHS determined that they were unsuitable for use in a medical or surgical environment,” the committee wrote, asking for further records detailing how the contract was negotiated.

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A plan to loan Eastman Kodak $765 million to shift to producing drug ingredients was scuttled after suspicious stock trades on the eve of the loan’s announcement prompted the U.S. International Development Finance Corp to cite "recent allegations of wrongdoing."

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Democrats in charge of oversight panels on Capitol Hill say there is still more to uncover, in part because the Trump administration did not respond to requests for documents. Republicans on the committees are complaining that the panels are focusing too much on the past and failing to hold the Biden administration accountable.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Grifters gonna grift

Remember how Trump was always going to do something or reveal something "in two weeks" ?  It was a recurring joke on liberal Twitter.

You may already know why he said it.  I just thought it was a Trumpian habit of speech.  I should have realized there was more to it and that the more was grift, because everything he did was grift.

I just listened to an interview with Denver Riggleman where he said something that might explain it. Probably explains it. Almost certainly explains it.

Riggleman was talking about Sidney Powell saying she's going to have more proof of a stolen election in 2 weeks, even as she claims in the Dominion lawsuit that no reasonable person would believe that shit! Riggleman said it's because she's raising money for her defense, and when raising money, it's considered it takes about 2 weeks to clear checks from the older rural people who donate that way.

Despicable.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.