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Ohio Joe

(21,748 posts)
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 01:55 PM Oct 2021

Grift of the day

From the article about the latest grift:

After lunch, it became clear why "finances" are part of the tour's motto. People who'd paid between $40 for a basic ticket and $10,000 for a VIP package that included photo ops, breakfast with Dinesh D'Souza, and lunch with Trump Jr. spent well over an hour listening to a speech about how to make money in the stock market.

They were then offered a $97 class (valued at more than $1,000, the speaker claimed) to learn how to get rich. Hundreds swarmed tables, squinting in dim lighting to write their biographical information and credit card numbers on the application.

This wasn't the only offer to get rich that day.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-jr-s-american-freedom-tour-is-a-get-rich-quick-seminar-masquerading-as-a-maga-rally/ar-AAPnOxT?ocid=msedgntp

It's amazing, it really is... This is not a new grift, it's freakin ancient... It's the 'TFG university' scam all over again and it barely even has new paint on it. I would think most people know it but... They line up by the hundreds to give away their money.

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Grift of the day (Original Post) Ohio Joe Oct 2021 OP
Dang mahina Oct 2021 #1
Sarcasm? Ray Bruns Oct 2021 #5
Seems like the only decision they have to make FoxNewsSucks Oct 2021 #6
Wonder what the gross take was? empedocles Oct 2021 #2
Did Chump declare himself a candidate yet? FakeNoose Oct 2021 #3
Selling MFM008 Oct 2021 #7
Yes. They wouldn't want to look stupid. Ray Bruns Oct 2021 #8
Wow, I'd love to have lunch with Dinesh D'Souza, so many questions. Equomba Oct 2021 #4

mahina

(17,642 posts)
1. Dang
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 02:01 PM
Oct 2021

I feel sad for them.

Somewhere in here is our only lever to fight against these corrupt hustlers. Once Republicans realize it’s a giant scam and a hustle think they’ll be lining up to rebuke them and pretend they weren’t hustled themselves.

What a sight to witness.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,429 posts)
6. Seems like the only decision they have to make
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 02:49 PM
Oct 2021

is whether to get fleeced by a grifting "preacher" or fleeced by Lying Orange Anus & Co.

FakeNoose

(32,628 posts)
3. Did Chump declare himself a candidate yet?
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 02:07 PM
Oct 2021

I don't think he did, because he refuses to admit that Biden won.

Therefore he has no campaign, and he can't collect donations yet. So what's a grifter to do?

Maybe send his son out on a FAKE campaign, (but don't call it that) and collect all the dough he can (but don't call them campaign donations.)


 

Equomba

(197 posts)
4. Wow, I'd love to have lunch with Dinesh D'Souza, so many questions.
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 02:13 PM
Oct 2021

Like, I'd ask him if the rumors are true about his weiner falling off after dating Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham.

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