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LMAO and the grift continues...

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

ETA to "It was all a scam, the money was stolen by 3rd parties..."

See: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/07/1121447226/steve-bannon-fraud-charges

[–] thantik@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If you look up Grant Cardone, Aventura FL - you'll see that he's already got a "business consultancy" where the reviews are all about how shitty and scammy he is.

The one who started the GoFundMe page was his wife.

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Don't forget they are also Scientologists™

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I have nothing but respect for people who manage to fleece Trump supporters with shit like this. Didn't somebody rake and millions of dollars that was supposed to go to the wall?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It's probably the most important thing we can strive for, is to make it cost, ideally severely, to support Trump.

I hope nothing more than that this grifter asks his supporters to open their pocket books to pay his debts.

It costs money to go to Washington to overthrow the government. It costs time away from work and gas to be a part of a bunch of tool bags in a caravan to stop an imagined threat at the boarder. The more we can cost these people the less effective they can be.

I'd guess that the rules of user engagement follow for Trump's base as they do for almost all other social systems. So maybe only 1/1000th of his the people that voted for him are 'true believer's. If we can get those individuals financially destitute, we might be able to stop the movement.