A Minnesota man and Trump supporter who vandalized his own property to pretend to be a hate crime victim has pleaded guilty to scamming insurers and GoFundMe donors in the charade.
Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect sixty-one thousand dollars. Do not collect seventeen thousand dollars. Do not collect three hundred thousand dollars.
Because his idol is almost certainly trumpet, he thought he could get away with massive fraud as he’s done all his life. Doesn’t work that way. You need enablers, to begin with, and the certainty and shamelessness to believe that you’re doing the right thing.
This is small potatoes in the world of Trump generated or enabled fraud. Dozens of people have pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars grifting people both rich and poor using Trump as a vehicle for their scams. As has Trump himself. That DC let him off the hook for his inaugural fund theft should be a bigger story. He raised over $100 million and reputable investigators tracking all the disbursements can only account for about half of it getting spent. I’m sure he put $20-30-40 million in his pocket on that deal. And I highly doubt he’ll ever be held to account on the $100+ million he’s raised through his Save America PAC, purportedly to look into election fraud and back GOP candidates, but which in reality is his to to with as he pleases. It’s supposedly on the DOJ’s radar and being investigated, but like every other crime he commits nothing will come of it.
I know there’s more important* things, but I couldn’t get past the guy’s name, Denis Vladmirovich Molla. So…his middle name is “Son of Vladimir”? Or did he marry into the Molla family and keep his own family name, Vladmirovich?
Another important reason to prosecute Trump is so his supporters fully understand that nobody is above the law means exactly that. If their idol is brought down, maybe that message gets through.
Thousands upon thousands of American families left homeless by recent hurricanes in Florida and Puerto Rico must be asking a version of “Are you kidding me?!” laced with a variety of expletives.
(Chronic Idiocy Syndrome is real, and some days it’s hard not to think we live in the United States of Baldricks.)
Given that Baldrick spent his windfall on an extremely large turnip, I’d say we only aspire to his general acumen. At least we seem to be slightly above a United States of Herschels? (Probably?)