Speaker 1: All right, as many of you know, I am fascinated by scams, and it just so happens
that the former president and the current Republican Party have perpetrated a number
of different scams, not only on the American people generally, but on their own followers
and donors.
We've talked about fundraising scams before.
One such scam was that after the 2020 election, Donald Trump claimed to be raising money
Speaker 2: for fighting Speaker 1: the election results for overturning
the election.
Speaker 2: And you could donate, presumably Speaker 1: to audits and recounts and whatever
else.
Now that was a scam on its Speaker 2: face, obviously, because they weren't
going to Speaker 1: overturn the election, but there
were other layers on which it was a scam as well.
For example, in the fine print, when Trump was raising money to overturn the election
results, depending on the promo, you would look at the fine print and it would say 50
percent of your donation.
60 percent of your donation can be used Speaker 2: not to fighting
Speaker 1: to overturn the election, but to pay off Trump's campaign
Speaker 2: debt Speaker 1: prior to the election.
The scam Speaker 2: was some pre-check
Speaker 1: boxes when you would make what you thought was a one time donation to Trump.
One of the boxes that was automatically checked unless you uncheck it, is that you're committing
to an ongoing donation, even Speaker 2: though you meant to make a single.
Speaker 1: And the second box was that in some cases the amount would go up.
Whatever your donation, there would be like a multiplier of some kind added on in the
subsequent donation.
So that was another scam that they did.
There's a new scam now, or at least it has returned.
The new scam is that the NRC that's the Speaker 2: National Republican
Speaker 1: Republican Senatorial Committee Speaker 2: is running a
Speaker 1: promo called Speaker 2: Dinner with Trump.
Speaker 1: Now, if I say to you, we are running a have dinner with me
Speaker 2: promo, would you Speaker 1: expect me to be at the dinner?
I think so.
If I ran a promo Speaker 2: called Have dinner
Speaker 1: with my mom.
Would you expect my mom Speaker 2: to be at the dinner?
Yes, I think so.
Speaker 1: If a celebrity chef like our friend Tyler Florence runs a Have Dinner with Tyler
promo, would you expect him to be there?
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 1: But the dinner with Trump?
Dinner doesn't have Trump.
This is a huge thing.
They're promoting it as enter to win dinner with Trump.
Do you want to have dinner with President Trump?
Enter now for your chance to meet President Trump.
But then you pull out the fine print and it says a winner and a guest will have a private
dinner with senators Lindsey Graham Tim Scott.
And Rick Scott, that there's no mention of Trump.
Trump won't be at the dinner for the winner of the dinner with Trump promo or giveaway.
Judd Legum or Legum has been researching this, and apparently this is a common scam that
Trump and Republicans ran during the 2020 campaign.
There were all these promos lunch with Trump in Chicago.
Dinner with Trump in Cleveland.
All of this stuff now.
Is it possible some of these events happened and Trump had lunch or dinner with somebody
that won the thing?
You know, he had lunch or dinner, but with some of the people who actually entered?
Maybe.
But there is no evidence that we're able to find that any of these events actually took
place.
Now I want to be really clear, Speaker 2: I don't care about the
Speaker 1: people getting scammed here in the sense that if you're willing, willing
to do anything to help Trump and these Republicans win, donate
Speaker 2: whatever for a meal with Speaker 1: Trump.
Arguably you've been scammed merely by the fact that you're supporting this corrupt party.
Speaker 2: So like missing the dinner, Speaker 1: it's kind of the cherry on top
of the scam.
But shouldn't there be repercussions here?
Because if you run a lottery and nobody wins, you just collect the money that's illegal.
When you do giveaways, raffles, et cetera, these things are governed by a bunch of different
law, and it's taken pretty seriously in most cases when you are Trump, I guess, or the
National Republican Senate Committee or whatever it is that
Speaker 2: they're called, everything is a scam.
Speaker 1: The campaign itself, the promises that were made but not kept the presidency
itself, the fundraising.
Now even the giveaways are a scam as well.
They should be held accountable.
No evidence that they
are going
to be.