Yes, the rumors are true.
We finally launched the TRB Membership Handbook, and it's 100% functioning.
It was a long and hardworking process to make the TRB system function properly,
but I would do anything for my loyal supporters.
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My stamp signature and
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>> That was an AI generated advertisement for
a scam involving something known as Trump Bucks.
And unfortunately,
it's the newest right wing grift that is scamming Trump supporters of their money.
Unfortunately, there are already examples of elderly people who have been
scammed by this.
Now, before I continue as we speak,
there is no indication that Trump himself is associated with this scam.
However, the people behind it, which we will name,
are horrible individuals, horrible organizations.
And have no problem lying to ordinary people and scamming them out of
their hard earned money, in some cases, of their retirement savings.
Now, Trump Bucks are advertised online as a kind of golden ticket
that will help propel Trump's 2024 bid and make the so
called real patriots who support him rich when they cash those Trump Bucks in.
So here's an image that shows you what they look like.
NBC News has identified the Colorado based companies that are behind so
called Trump Bucks.
Patriots Dynasty is one of them, Patriots Future, and USA Patriots are the three
organizations that NBC has learned about through their investigation.
And the companies are using AI generated advertising of figures like
Elon Musk to claim that these worthless Trump Bucks will make them rich.
So here's another example of such an ad from the website.
They advertise that if you invest in TRB membership cards issued by Donald Trump,
the ads from Patriots Dynasty, Patriots Future, and
USA Patriots claim, and the purchaser who spent, say,
$99.99 on a $10,000 diamond Trump Bucks bill
will be able to cash it in for $10,000 at major banks and
retailers like Walmart, Costco, and Home Depot.
Except that's not true.
The Trump Bucks are worthless, if you spend 100 bucks to get
$10,000 worth of Trump Bucks or whatever it is, if you go to a bank and
you try to cash that in, the teller is going to either roll their eyes at you or
be very confused, cuz, again, they're worth nothing.
>> Yeah, so, look, this is a super sad story. I mean, it sounds funny, ha ha,
the Republican voters think that if you buy something for
99 bucks you can sell it for 10,000.
How could that possibly be true?
How could anyone possibly think that, right, but they do.
Okay, but I don't think that's ha ha, I think it is sad.
And what sucks is that the same group of folks are always targeted.
So who do the prosperity preachers target?
Do they target highly educated graduate students?
No.
And it's not a look, guys, it is what it is, and
especially with some religious folks,
it's not their fault they're trained from when they were tiny little kids.
Turn off your brain, turn off your brain.
We do things on faith alone.
Well, how do I know what to have faith in?
Don't I have to use my mind to figure that out?
No, just the leader will tell you, and if you disagree with the leader,
you're Satan, okay?
>> That's true, but there's also, let's not underestimate how many elderly people,
regardless of their political background, get scammed by stuff like this, right?
>> And that's another thing that's super sad, that there's tons of scams targeting
the elderly cuz they're having trouble being able to process information, right?
And so that's just the reality, not all elderly, there's just some and
that's what these guys play, the percentage games.
But now I do have to say there's no Bernie Bucks, right?
There's nobody on the left pretending that if you give $100,
you'll get 10,000 the next day.
Just go to Walgreens and pick it up.
>> Right. >> It ain't gonna work.
And there's a couple of reasons why it's not gonna work.
One, our side is trained a little bit more to be critical and
critical thinking, etc, more value on education.
So those things are true.
But the second reason is the left, and
the left is oftentimes overtly destructive of their own side, right?
But here it would be slightly helpful because the left would rip you
to shreds for this.
>> Yeah, it's true.
>> They would never let this stand, right?
Whereas the right wing think,
you guys are running a scam to rip off our own followers.
Cool, how are you doing it?
Look, cuz I got brain pills to sell.
I got penis pills to sell, I got gold to sell.
I got Armageddon, get ready for Armageddon crap to sell etc.
>> Yeah, doom day prepper stuff.
>> Yeah, so.
>> Right, penis pills, yeah.
>> A huge percentage of right wing media infrastructure is built on pure scams.
>> Yeah, that's a fair point.
And I wanna talk a little bit about some of the victims.
Unsurprising to me that it appears that many of them happen to be
older in their senior years.
One 77 year old Trump supporter,
who happens to be a victim of this grift, is now warning others to beware.
So in a post, John Amann writes,
alert if you purchased any of the TRB system's items, you got scammed.
The TRB vouchers Donald J Trump golden checks, Donald J Trump diamond checks,
TRB golden checks have no monetary values They are commemorative only.
And what ends up happening is when they advertise this stuff in some cases,
if you read the fine print, it'll say commemorative,
in other social media posts, they do not make that clear, right?
So it's very easy for people to fall for
this because there's really no disclosure in some of the advertising.
Additionally, NBC News has found at least a dozen people, like Amann,
who say they invested thousands of dollars after watching the pitches on Telegram and
other websites that strongly suggested that Trump himself was endorsing these
products.
However, there is no proof or confirmation that Trump is behind or
endorsing these products, right?
That might change the story might get updated.
NBC reached out to the Trump camp for comment on this, and
they have not responded.
But as far as we know right now,
there's no evidence linking this grift to Donald Trump.
But also, to be fair, Donald Trump himself has engaged in quite a few grifts and
has scammed his own supporters, including through emails indicating that
he was raising money for court battles to overturn the election.
He did no such thing with those funds.
>> Let alone Trump University, Trump Charity, which were all scams.
>> Yeah.
>> He admitted were scams and paid fine because he ran scam charity and
a scam university.
So when you trust the biggest con men in American history, yeah, there's gonna be
a cottage industry that rises, like, Trump is basically the beacon of con men.
And he's put out this giant lighthouse of a scam, and
all the other little bugs are floating to that light going, these are the easiest
targets in Trump's parlance the suckers and losers we could all take advantage of.
And that's why it's a super sad story.
There's one more twist to this, or revelation within it.
You notice Telegram, that's a right wing platform, right?
And they allow this stuff.
So when right wing media says, we don't want any censorship,
part of the reason that they are saying that is because they all run false ads.
So in a situation where you moderate a platform, number one,
this is an affront to Donald Trump if you think about it, they're faking his voice.
>> I mean, they're using his likeness in order to sell this grift.
>> No censorship, no censorship.
It's a totally false ad.
It's every part of it is a lie, including Donald Trump's voice, no censorship.
But everybody's making money, they're making money off of you.
They're not making money off of us, none of these target progressives or Democrats.
They all target right wingers.
And Steve Bannon, by the way, his co-conspirators convicted.
>> That's right.
>> Pretended they were gonna build a wall, took the money, put it in their pockets,
got yachts, etc.
Steve Bannon not in jail, why?
Donald Trump pardoned them cuz the top mafia boss pardons all the other
criminals cuz they're all living off of the right wing scam.
And it's so sad that they're leeching off of half of the population and
that half doesn't even realize it.
They just keep funneling more and more money to them.