Political Fundraiser Pleads Guilty To Fraud | Talking Points Memo

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Gee, it sounds similar to the late, great Donald J. Trump Foundation???

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Watch how few months in the slammer he gets.
Watch how few other people are rounded up as co-conspirators.
Watch how few dollars are recovered from the $10Mil collected.

Compareā€”In NYC/Staten Island you get a de facto death sentence for selling loose cigarettes. If you are an international bank systematically aiding drug cartels, your shareholders pay a fine. If you are American Bg Bankers and crash the economy, you get to keep your job and get govt money. What a country.

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Rogersā€™ defense: Preventing me from taking money from people is prior restraint!

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Wonā€™t be burning their money anymore, not so win.

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It doesnā€™t.

Also, isnā€™t this an open secret? As with the NRA, pretty much all conservative linked political fundraising appears to be at least partly grift. The only surprising part is that someone is actually trying to enforce it.

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Damn! Iā€™m in the wrong businessā€¦

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Spoil sport.

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Donā€™t blame me, blame ā€œG. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginiaā€ and AG Barr Barr Jinx for ending this particular running sore on right wing fundraising.

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Admittedly Iā€™m torn.
The more money these asshats grift, the less gets spent on actual propaganda.

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  1. How is this news if itā€™s the GOP SOP?
  2. Disgorge all of it, every last cent. Make him pay off any balance by working at a job that involves hairnets, name tags, and the sentence ā€œDo you want fries with that?ā€
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Putting the ā€œconā€ in conservative. How come these crooks are so common on the right? Because stupid people (who think theyā€™re smart) are the easiest marks of all.

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