Special counsel focuses on Trump fundraising off false election claims

[onthedarkside]

 

Federal prosecutors probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have in recent weeks sought a wide range of documents related to fundraising after the 2020 election, looking to determine if Trump or his advisers scammed donors by using false claims about voter fraud to raise money, eight people familiar with the new inquiries said.

 

Special counsel Jack Smith’s office has sent subpoenas in recent weeks to Trump advisers and former campaign aides, Republican operatives and other consultants involved in the 2020 presidential campaign, the people said. They have also heard testimony from some of these figures in front of a Washington grand jury, some of the people said.

 

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[pomchop]

I don't think Jack Smith is a guy you want to mess with if you are playing games with financial reporting, fund raising, valuations, tax reporting, etc.

 

Remember what took Al Capone down was tax charges.  Like Capone  donnie and his army of lawyers and accountants have not demonstrated that they  are real great at telling the truth about financial matters, and unlike the he said, she said stuff there is most likely a very long paper trail of docs/filings/report forms, tax returns, etc that Mr. Smith is pouring through.  Juries just love to see the paperwork and don't much like folks who brag constantly about how hugely rich they are and they scam their supporters and cheat on their taxes by millions.

[heybruce]

"...looking to determine if Trump or his advisers scammed donors by using false claims about voter fraud to raise money..."

 

"if"?

[pomchop]

1 hour ago, heybruce said:

"...looking to determine if Trump or his advisers scammed donors by using false claims about voter fraud to raise money..."

 

"if"?

Well he does have to provide ten tons of evidence to partially overcome the gallons of kool aide that enables trumpers to see no evil hear no evil....and even that probably will not convince the hard core that the emperor is a con man grifter with no clothes...

[stevenl]

I get the impression the special counsel is moving from one subject to the next. Looks like multiple charges are coming.

[LosLobo]

Hans Christian Andersen's Emperor's New Clothes is a good analogy!

 

The difference between both authors of fairy tales is that almost half of US adults don't still believe Hans's are true ......or do they?

 

 

 

[Tug]

Now there’s an area of trumps fraud that should bear a rich harvest of felonies not to mention the outright theft of top secret documents and the following obstruction hold on to your toupee old Donnie boy it’s a fixing to hit the fan big time!!

[Eric Loh]

But but it’s a perfect scam like my perfect phone calls. ????

[pomchop]

1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

But but it’s a perfect scam like my perfect phone calls. ????

Everything he has done since birth was PERFECT.....how do i know that?  Why because he has told everyone that and we all know that he would never ever tell a lie, be a conman, a grifter, a rapist, a tax fraud, a coup plotter.....how do we know this?  Because he has told us this. ...and I understand that Santos has verified all of the claims personally.

[xylophone]

5 hours ago, heybruce said:

"...looking to determine if Trump or his advisers scammed donors by using false claims about voter fraud to raise money..."

 

"if"?

"If"..................Well that would have to be a "given", especially in light of the thousands of other lies and false claims by the compulsive liar and grifter, and his associates/advisers.

[Skallywag]

He found no gold or silver. The coin was also magnetic, suggesting it was mostly made of iron. [Another expert] tested the coin using a nitric acid solution. After he applied a blob to Mr. Trump’s gold-colored image, the area darkened, bubbled and then turned green.

“It’s paint,” he concluded.

What was it worth?

“Nothing,” he said.

 

45 was selling these for $100, falsely claiming real gold or silver...NOT   ...And do not forget the "trading cards"   5555  LOL  45 made 100's of thousands duping his MAGA followers and continues to do so

 

[candide]

Another evidence the DOJ is not politicised! Trump's fans also have the right to be protected by law, not only woke people! MAGA folks have been scammed by Trump's misleading advertising. This should be investigated and punished!

[RichardColeman]

I truly hope the Reps are re-elected and do exactly the same to the Biden family.

 

Still no mention of an inquiry into the Biden finances - speaks volumes of two tier justice in the USA.

[Chomper Higgot]

58 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

I truly hope the Reps are re-elected and do exactly the same to the Biden family.

 

Still no mention of an inquiry into the Biden finances - speaks volumes of two tier justice in the USA.

For your dream to become anything other than arid the Bidens would have first had to have committed some crimes.

 

Your hopes for politically motivated abuse of the DOJ are noted (Rightwing accusation being confessions and all that).

 

[Chomper Higgot]

Jack be nimble, Jack he quick.

[billd766]

3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

I truly hope the Reps are re-elected and do exactly the same to the Biden family.

 

Still no mention of an inquiry into the Biden finances - speaks volumes of two tier justice in the USA.

Nice try at diverting the subject which is of course all about

 

"Special counsel focuses on Trump fundraising off false election claims".

 

Strangely enough, I never saw President Biden's name mentioned.

 

It is nothing to do with ANY enquiry into President Biden's finances.

 

If you want to follow that thread then do so, but do not try to hijack this thread.

 

Do a search here 

 

Enquiry ito President Biden's finances

 

Found 27482 results. enough results even for you

[Tug]

4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

I truly hope the Reps are re-elected and do exactly the same to the Biden family.

 

Still no mention of an inquiry into the Biden finances - speaks volumes of two tier justice in the USA.

deliberately lying with full knowledge of the truth then bilking supporters of money is a crime that’s what trump did and continues to do he is a fraud and bilko artist no more no less.Joe Biden isent perfect but he isn’t a bilko artist like trump.also notably absent from this thread is the usual trump supporters,are they finally getting it?LOCK HIM UP!!

[stevenl]

10 hours ago, Tug said:

<snip>also notably absent from this thread is the usual trump supporters,are they finally getting it<snip >

Not a chance in hell.