Opinion | ‘Conspiracy to defraud’ is the perfect charge against the grifter Trump

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Opinion | ‘Conspiracy to defraud’ is the perfect charge against the grifter Trump
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Opinion by Eugene Robinson: The fraud allegation relates mostly to a deceitful attempt to field slates of fake electors to reverse the result of the 2020 election. More broadly, however: What has Trump’s entire political career been but a great big fraud?

, mostly by constantly dunning small-dollar donors. Trump gave the impression that the money would be used to help Republicans in the November midterm elections, but even his handpicked candidates received no more than a trickle of cash.

And the $99 that each gullible purchaser sent in went not to any political cause but to Trump himself. Even Trump’s longtime ally, Stephen K. Bannon, watched Trump’s spiel and moaned, “Trump convinced many of his followers that he was a genius businessman, which meant lumping his multiple bankruptcies, which are amply documented, into the category of “fake news.

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