Trump's Election-Fraud Business Is Booming
https://www.bloomberg.com/opin...-business-is-booming
The president needn’t risk his own money as long as others are willing to chip in.
The president of the United States, a self-described multibillionaire, is still claiming the 2020 election was rigged — and he wants you to give him some of your money to help him sort that out.
Ever since it became clear Joe Biden was the president-elect, Donald Trump’s campaign has pushed out a tsunami of text messages and email solicitations seeking donations to defray legal bills it’s incurred while trying, unsuccessfully, to overturn the election. Already, the effort has raised between $150 million and $170 million, according to the
Washington Post and the
New York Times.
What’s the likelihood all of that money will actually be used to defray Trump’s legal bills? You already know the answer.
He and his three eldest children presided over a “charity,”
the Trump Foundation, that the New York State attorney general’s office put out of business in 2018 because of a “shocking pattern of illegality” and “willful self-dealing” that allowed them to turn the faux philanthropy into the family’s piggy bank. Trump eagerly solicited donations from others to fund his foundation but was never willing to be as generous with his own money.