It all helps the fundraising
Trump raised nearly $250 million pushing fake election claims in the weeks before Jan. 6
The House select committee that investigated the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021 said in their final report that Donald Trump raised nearly $250 million between Election Day and Jan. 6 as the former president’s tried and failed to fight the election results in court.
“Evidence gathered by the Committee indicates that President Trump raised roughly one quarter of a billion dollars in fundraising efforts between the election and January 6th. Those solicitations persistently claimed and referred to election fraud that did not exist,” the committee said in their final report.
His crimes are nested, or recursive. He tries to steal the election, and he raises money by lying that the election was stolen. He commits crimes as easily as other people eat a sandwich.
The Republican National Committee “knew that President Trump’s claims about winning the election were baseless and that additional donations would not help him secure an additional term in office,” according to the report.
Still, the RNC ” walked as close to the line as they dared—making several changes to fundraising copy that seemingly protected the RNC from legal exposure while still spreading and relying on President Trump’s known lies and misrepresentations.”
Republicans relish locking up petty criminals for years, yet they commit major, world-damaging crimes as a party without turning a hair.
… and they expect to commit those crimes without ever being called to account.
Is there such a thing as a tautology of fraud? Commit fraud, get caught, defraud more people of money to defend against the fraud by doubling down on the original fraud.
Perhaps we need a new term for this – maybe something like a Trumpcycle…
Sounds like a Perpetual Fraud Machine, which ought to violate the laws of thermodynamics, but Trump doesn’t obey laws.
Nah, this still follows the Second Law. Heat (money) flows from the hotter (rubes) to the cooler (Trump). Eventually [stretch out pronunciation], the rubes will stop donating for one reason or another, if only because they run out of money or die, and this particular ‘machine’ will cease to function. The biggest damage that Trump has done is demonstrate how to break the system. Other people will attempt to build their own machines and some will succeed, perhaps better than Trump.