{"id":1274,"date":"2022-06-15T17:36:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2022-06-15T17:36:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:36:03","slug":"the-long-con-trump-is-just-returning-to-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"The Long Con — Trump is just returning to form"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Long Con<\/b><\/p>\n

Trump is just returning to form<\/b><\/p>\n

June 15th<\/sup> 2022<\/i><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cNot only was there the Big Lie, there was the Big Ripoff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zoe Lofgren, Congressperson from California, may have understated it. She cited the quarter of a billion dollars that Trump raised that was meant to go to the \u201cOfficial Election Defense Fund.\u201d The money would be used, he said, to \u201censure election integrity.\u201d That, of course, was the Big Lie: that the election was stolen from Trump.<\/p>\n

But there is just one little problem with the \u201cOfficial Election Defense Fund\u201d: it doesn\u2019t exist. Papers for such an entity haven\u2019t been filed anywhere, and there are no filings with the federal or any state tax agency.<\/p>\n

A quarter of a billion dollars. If a million people donated, it would be $250 each. Even if you factored in the usual gullible and\/or fascistic billionaires, Trump hornswoggled a hell of a lot of people for his fake cause.<\/p>\n

It would be somewhat understandable if the money went to Trump\u2019s legal fees, but the GOP is paying those\u2014yes, including ones that have nothing to do with his membership in the GOP. Republicans have been pretty much reduced to humping daddy\u2019s leg in hopes of getting a pat on the head.<\/p>\n

So where did all that money go?<\/p>\n

According to Ryan Bort over at Rolling Stone, \u201c…Save America PAC. The PAC then made contributions to Mark Meadows\u2019 charity, to a conservative organization employing former Trump staffers, to the Trump Hotel Collection, and to the company that organized the rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol last Jan. 6.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hold up. \u201c[T]he company that organized the rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol last Jan. 6.\u201d?<\/p>\n

Yup. Among other things, they shelled out $60,000 to have Kimberley Guilfoyle <\/span>rant incoherently at the audience for all of two minutes. Nice work, eh? If you haven\u2019t heard her speak, just imagine what might happen if you fed some meth to Donald Duck. <\/span><\/p>\n

At least she didn\u2019t incite the street Nazis of the GOP (the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, similar white trash) to attack the Capitol. They had already left to do that before the rally even began, it all having been carefully <\/span>planned beginning before the election was even held. Guilfoyle was ranting at the same sorts of dupes that donated to the Official Election Defense Fund, mostly people who thought they were attending a peaceful pro-Trump rally. The real traitors had gone on ahead to try and overthrow the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n

Trump has always been a huckster and a swindler. Trump charged $35,000 tuition for his \u201cuniversity\u201d which had no accreditation, no actual physical existence, and a faculty that the Atlantic described<\/a> as \u201ca motley bunch if misfits.\u201d Trump, in the late days of the 2016 campaign, wound up settling out of court against all the lawsuits filed for $15 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

USA Today<\/a> had a lengthy list of contractors and workers that Trump flat out swindled over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump has a long and tawdry list of swindles and cons and flat out cheats, hundreds and thousands of them, destroying small businesses, cheating workers and tenants, and bilking billions of dollars. Perhaps most disgraceful of all was his theft of $100,000 from a charity for children\u2019s cancer.<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an indictment of American culture\u2014and its utter servility to the wealthy\u2014that this man wasn\u2019t sent to prison to rot decades ago. <\/span><\/p>\n

So is anyone even remotely surprised that Trump\u2019s motives for political office and his efforts to destroy the country were motivated by anything other than a desire to feather his own bloated nest further? Given his tawdry history, his entire political career is about the same as a dog coming back to lap up his own vomit.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had two public hearings by the January 6<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> Select Committee, and Americans, in the tens of millions, have tuned in, either directly on live television, or streaming, or video (the proceedings in full can be found on YouTube as they are public domain, and you can watch and\/or download at will). The third one is tomorrow evening, prime time again. Democrats will fume, Republicans will bow and scrape to their master even as the<\/span>y<\/span> condemn the enemies of Trump. The ability of Republicans to simultaneously strut and cringe is a wonder to behold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Evidence will continue to mount. We\u2019re probably going to learn of direct donations from the \u201cOfficial Election Defense Fund\u201d to the street Nazis. We may even learn which members of the Trump administration managed those payments on Trump\u2019s behalf, and what, if any instructions to kill Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence were discussed. It will be damning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s personal history leaves me baffled as to why he has escaped justice all these years. His political career, unsurprisingly, has been even more vicious, corrupt, and self-serving.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m against the death penalty, so I won\u2019t say Trump should face a sentence of hanging. But if, in light of all we know, he doesn\u2019t die in prison, it\u2019s an indictment of America and its ability to be a free and just country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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