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Asking if something that Trump does is a scam is a rhetorical question. But the reporting is necessary and much appreciated.

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Other concerning scam items is that a subscriber to another Substack said he had received solicitations from Trump to buy Trump AR-15s and ammo.

https://www.auto-ordnance.com/commander-in-chief-ar15/

He worries that Trump is arming his constituency. A The Bulwark article also discussed how Trump can use these fundraisers to get around campaign financing laws and sell influence. He looked at the watch scheme. The high end watch is $100,000. However, if a Saudi wants to buy 100 or 1000 or a million of them, that is cash for influence to Trump, but it is not illegal. There need to be laws to make these loopholes illegal. Also, using Bitcoin will make everything untraceable. Between his endless crimes and his disinformation campaign, and his hold of air-headed Christian Nationalists in Congress, Trump is destroying the USA without even winning.

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Wow! This is frightening stuff. More so than usual Trump nonsense.

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Our democracy isn't being destroyed by Trump, he is simply the tool of the Republican Party.

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I am going to disagree. While it might be a two-way street, it seems to me that the Republican Party is a tool of Trump. That is what happened with the National Socialist Party and Hitler too, as well as the elites who supported him. They thought he would be their useful idiot, but it was the other way around. Either way, they are gunning for turning the US into a Christian Nationalist Theocracy if we don't make sure he does not win.

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And in turn, Trump is the tool of the oligarchs, both foreign and domestic. Yes, this is HItler 2.0, but on a vastly larger scale. It is becoming evident that Trump is irrelevant or soon will be. His removal will not end the global conquest. Each 'leader' will become irrelevant in turn. Chucky Vance is chomping at the bit to have his turn, and given Thiel's support he will probably get it. Until he also becomes irrelevant. And so on.

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Yes, this is what I'm starting to see and hesitate to voice my concerns, or ask pointed questions, because I don't know who's watching on these platforms.

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Obviously we're being 'watched'. If you hear that knock on the door, let us know on Substack before you open it. We'll try to find you. But there's time, the camps haven't been constructed yet. Or have they? Musk would know.

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Trump is an oligarch.

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And closer to our time, it hasn't exactly turned out well for Putin's oligarchs either. Do what I say or you too will end up imprisoned, poisoned, hanged or mysteriouly falling out of sixth floor windows! Berezovsky and Khodorkhovsky amoung others.

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They have always been on this path, but more carefully. Trump blew the governor off the throttle, and they're like, "Wheeeeee!!!! Here we goooooo!!!!!!" Case in point, the crocodile concern after Trump's Jan. 6 behavior, but upon seeing he would skate away, they were all like, "Go Trump!."

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I looked up "Trump Rifle" and up came Comnander in Chief Rifle.

I am speechless.

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Sick!

See for yourselves: https://www.auto-ordnance.com/commander-in-chief-ar15/

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Yes. Agreed it is sick. Trump is so over the top that he is leaving the other fascists in the dust. As I said, a Substack commenter said he has been getting ads for it. I have not, so I guess I am gratefully not looking at the right websites to be solicited with such a deal.

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Oct 7·edited Oct 7

Hey! Neither did I and I am going to write a strongly worded letter to management enjoining them to address this discriminatory oversight and find out WHY!

Why, why, why I'll write the NYT dammit!!!

Oh!

/s

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Excellent points Linda!

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Of course it was a scam. Trump has never made an honest dollar in his life.

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LOL .. the winner was Musk!

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Has America really become DUMBED DOWN ? Hearing this phrase so often makes me feel we need to hit pause and completely revamp the way we encourage and teach and actually learn good citizenship. There was a New Yorker cartoon just before the 2016 election . An airplane interior. All seated. One man standing. I can’t remember the exact cation but the cartoon has stayed with me these past years. He was saying something like “ Who’s sick of these arrogant pilots and wants me to takeover flying the plane ?” We are at that moment.

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I hope this comes up for you because it illustrates the point.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/050XyuMsaUWJNxOatZ0ll7I1Q

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Oct 7·edited Oct 7

I consider any scheme that Donald Trump promotes to be a scam, unless proven otherwise

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Swindle For Dollars is the Trump mantra.

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If anything ever happens as Trump and his grifters promise, it's an accident.

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So Donald Trump promotes himself and doesn't follow through with promises to share his glory...? Would his eager followers be disappointed? We don't care, and doubt that those who "LOVE" him would expect him to ever follow through on any promise.

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That is his "staying power." The cultish koolaid drinkers do not give a flying "expletive deleted!"

"We love you just the way you are!" They send their money, internalize his lies, why, they would send tribute in the form of their own offspring were their lord and commander merely ask.

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You could almost have called today’s posting “Cereal Grifter”…

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Serial

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Promised, alleged breakfasts with Trump…Cereal Grifter…that was my point, Valerie! And why I wrote could “almost” call it Cereal Grifter. Guess I could’ve added tagline “And what’s at steak—our democracy!”

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Thanks, I didn't get the humor...and I deeply appreciate any humor these days!

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Didn't disclose "even where required by state law" is the crux of the matter. If there are no consequences (and there aren't any for most white collar criminals, even more so Presidential candidates), then crime flourishes.

This is Trump's superpower--recognizing that the system does not punish people like him and exploiting that fact. Honestly, he's been breaking the law his whole career in real estate development and tax avoidance, and most people would never have known anything about it except that he put himself in the public eye.

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This is true.

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But of course it’s a scam.

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The people who support him are just as rotten as Trump. They get what they deserve.

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But we don't deserve it.

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I agree! It’s incumbent upon us to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

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I’m with you! Let the SMACKDOWN begin in 29 days!

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YES! And I just cannot wait to see the The Great Maga SMACKDOWN!

I want to see right make might for once. A spectacle on the order of Mike Tyson beating the absolute crap out of that irritating dude Paul or Punk or whatever.

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I ( a Democrat who has only voted for a Republican once in my life ) receive these all the time. Unlike his followers, I assumed it was a scam. There is nothing that you receive from him or the campaign that does not require a donation. Needless to say no donation was given. Thank you for pointing all of this out. However, the choir is convinced. Sadly, it’s the cult followers that are sending their hard earned money to earn a spot on the stage who won’t see this.

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I still scratch my head every time I read about these sycophants who follow him blindly down his path to the gates of hell. Terrifying! And now he’s threatening the democrats will be targeted by his followers!

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FELON Trump et al aren’t going to suddenly stop lying and projecting. Just another set of scams and lies is a repeat of any previous day. Elon Musk is THE dangerous immigrant along with Rupert Murdock and Thiel. DEPORT THEM!

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