And the grift goes on

Created
Thu, 07/09/2023 - 00:30
Updated
Thu, 07/09/2023 - 00:30
And the grift goes on Special counsel Jack Smith may be investigating Donald Trump’s defrauding his followers after he lost the 2020 election. Raw Story (Sarah K. Burris): Speaking to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, Tim Heaphy related suspected financial dealings based on claims that the election was stolen to an operation that was selling snake oil. “He’s looking for more evidence of the big grift,” he explained. “We laid this out in great detail during one or more of our hearings and it is outlined in the report. A lot of people were profiting from this false narrative that the election was stolen. Save America PAC raised $250 million after the election by telling people that the election was stolen. Sidney Powell set up a nonprofit and legal defense fund in which those same lies led to a lot of people giving money.” Wallace played a clip of the House committee’s hearing showing screen captures of over 25 email solicitations that the Trump campaign sent out in a single day. There was also an America First Foundation, which raised money and has hired many of the former Trump staff. It’s all fraud, Heaphy believes: “If somebody says, ‘If you give me money, I’ll use it to do the following: I’ll give it to refugee resettlement in our community.’ But you don’t use it for refugee resettlement, you use it for other purposes beyond that which you indicated. That is fraud. Wire fraud, mail fraud are crimes that broadly criminalize any scheme that is meant to deprive people of their money based…