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From Richard Luscombe in The Guardian:
A Donald Trump supporter who donated $2.5m to help expose and prosecute claims of fraud in the presidential election wants his money back after what he says are “disappointing results”.
Fredric Eshelman, a businessman from North Carolina, said he gave the money to True the Vote, a pro-Trump “election ethics” group in Texas that promised to file lawsuits in seven swing states as part of its push to “investigate, litigate, and expose suspected illegal balloting and fraud in the 2020 general election”.
But according to a lawsuit Eshelman filed this week in Houston, first reported by Bloomberg, True the Vote dropped its legal actions and discontinued its Validate the Vote 2020 campaign, then refused to return his calls when he demanded an explanation...
From Richard Luscombe in The Guardian:
A Donald Trump supporter who donated $2.5m to help expose and prosecute claims of fraud in the presidential election wants his money back after what he says are “disappointing results”.
Fredric Eshelman, a businessman from North Carolina, said he gave the money to True the Vote, a pro-Trump “election ethics” group in Texas that promised to file lawsuits in seven swing states as part of its push to “investigate, litigate, and expose suspected illegal balloting and fraud in the 2020 general election”.
But according to a lawsuit Eshelman filed this week in Houston, first reported by Bloomberg, True the Vote dropped its legal actions and discontinued its Validate the Vote 2020 campaign, then refused to return his calls when he demanded an explanation...
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As you might have guessed the grifters eventually doubled down at 40 cents on the dollar:
...True the Vote had offered him (Eshelman) $1 million if he would drop any plans for a lawsuit...
Imagine that!
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The WaPo has a solid account about how the sycophants and quislings surrounding Mr. Trump have facilitated the coup de grift at every turn...here.
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Backgrounder for 'True the Vote' Google search:
“the country’s largest voters’ rights organization”, “well known for [its] ability to lead national unified plans to protect election integrity."
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and one criteria, be a member of the cash strapped National Rifle Association
NVG--
To butcher Jerry Lee Lewis...
'Whole lotta griftin' going on'
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Good find Ross.
If Frederic Eshelman just gave me half that amount I could've told him then not to bother. I kind of wonder how these types make so much money???
In the States maybe a REM song, It's the End of the World.
Booey--
Hedge fund pharma-type snake oil salesmen like the good Mr. E. want no rules.
Or, at the very least, they want rules that can be easily bent.
Thus, keeping a person like Mr. Trump at the top of their grift heap is an imperative worth throwing money at.
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According to the reports, Fredric wired them 2 million on Nov. 5th, 2 days after the election ( with another half mil. to follow). So one can reasonably assume the grift to challenge the vote with somebody else’s money was up and running before the votes were all in on the Nov. 3rd.
The e-mails going out to the MAGA crowd soliciting donations for the challenges have a couple of variations in the fine print about what money goes where.
https://apnews.com/article/money-donald-trump-election-defense-flow-d533491164bd4cae7ac47392ca740c7d
The legal challenges so far have gone no-where and probably not much further, which isn’t stopping Rudy and the other dead enders from fox news forging ahead. No decent lawyers would or have touched this, but as long as the clown car can keep the dough flowing in from the true believers why stop.? Next up, supreme court.
Fredric rolled the dice on a con man and his team and lost.
James Carville. – “it’s the economy stupid”
Anon but says it all - “It’s the stupid stupid”
Keith--
The grift was in place well before the election. The WaPo's account, linked to in the footnote to the post, explains...
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Thanks Ross,
couldn’t get to it through the link but got it.
As this plays out one loses adjectives to describe why so many are suspending disbelief.
Troll removal, above.
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omg, how stupid was that guy?
he wants his money back? that is actually funny. As if. I'm sure if they sent in a bunch of really good accountants they'd find all sorts of things went missing and all sorts of charges were made against the fund which will have benefited one of the trumps or some one close to them. Grifters all of them, in my opinion.
Looks good on the billionaire class, to be taken in by Trump and his gang. Perhaps some of them will now know how it feels to be a small businessman/tradesperson who wasn't paid by trump through his various bankruptcies.
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