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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,356 posts)
Wed Feb 14, 2024, 02:18 PM Feb 14

Trump turned his supporters into a MAGA cash machine

Trump’s always bragging about his wealth, claiming, in an April 2023 deposition, that he had $400 million in cash with oh-so-much-more in real estate and “brand” value. And in 2016 proclaimed, “I’m self-funding my own campaign. It’s my money.”

Plus, he’s trumpeted he’s a billionaire at least 55 zillion times and says strong men — with tears in their eyes — come up to him and say, “Mr. Trump, you are soooo rich.”

So, one might ask, why ask for donations when proclaiming you’re self-funding a campaign? (That’s easy: he begs for cash because he’s a greedy, grifting con-man liar.)

The bigger mystery is, however: Why do people give him money, when he says he’s too rich to need it?

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/burke-trump-turned-his-supporters-into-a-maga-cash-machine/

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Trump turned his supporters into a MAGA cash machine (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 14 OP
Fools and their money are soon parted. First useful idiot magats, GreenWave Feb 14 #1
A fool and his money are lucky to get together in the first place. Aristus Feb 15 #4
Because the "base" is a Cult. Just like Scientologists. oldsoftie Feb 14 #2
TFG's lawyers need to be paid LetMyPeopleVote Feb 14 #3
Chump has no personal claim on any fees the NATO allies pay to the organization FakeNoose Feb 15 #5

GreenWave

(6,790 posts)
1. Fools and their money are soon parted. First useful idiot magats,
Wed Feb 14, 2024, 02:21 PM
Feb 14

then IQ 45 getting slapped Big Time in courts.

oldsoftie

(12,645 posts)
2. Because the "base" is a Cult. Just like Scientologists.
Wed Feb 14, 2024, 02:26 PM
Feb 14

But I'd bet Scientologists are better educated. But education doesnt make one immune from being conned.

FakeNoose

(32,841 posts)
5. Chump has no personal claim on any fees the NATO allies pay to the organization
Thu Feb 15, 2024, 10:16 PM
Feb 15

... whether he's in the White House or not.

I mean, that's clear to everyone, am I right?

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