Trump's exit from the presidency is turning into a giant financial windfall for Trump. Trump has raised over $150 million since election day. Ostensibly, this money is for his legal fight against the non-existent "voting fraud" that cost him the election. However, the small print in the virtual flood of financial appeals with which Trump is inundating his small dollar donors explains that the vast majority of the money raised goes to a Trump political action committee. A committee that Trump controls who's funds can be used by Trump for almost any purpose with virtually no oversight.
I anxiously await the inevitable declaration that servicing the debt on a golf course in Scotland consists of "political activities" once the Oval Office has been fumigated. But holy hell, $150 million, raised through one of the most obvious shell games in the history of American politics?
Trump isn't stupid when it comes to grifting. Clearly, when he meets with his well heeled rightwing Cristo-fascist "spiritual" advisors, they don't spend their time discussing "two Corinthians." I suspect they spend most of their time discussing the effectiveness of direct mail and text appeals for funds to finance the lavish lifestyles of fundie grifters.
Trump may or may not believe that his gang of incompetent lawyers will find a way to steal the election for him. But, he does sleep well at night knowing that he will have conned his MAGA faithful out of a couple hundred million dollars that will allow him to continue in his ostentatious life style.
The President* of the United States is running a direct-mail scam from inside the White House. Exiled Nigerian princes in my inbox have a less obvious pitch than this guy does. In my time, I've been fleeced by experts, and this guy is not an expert. P.T. Barnum undersold the nature of the American sucker.
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