The Trump campaign used these false claims of election fraud to raise hundreds
of millions of dollars from supporters who were told their donations were for
the legal fight in the courts.
But the Trump campaign didn't use the money for that.
The big lie was also a big rip off.
>> That was representative Lofgren on day two of
the house select committee hearings.
And of course they're tasked with investigating the riots that took place in
the nation's capital on January 6th and the lies that continue to be perpetuated
by Donald Trump in regard to the 2020 presidential election.
Now we learned just how much money Donald Trump had scammed from his own
supporters following the 2020 election by repeating the big lie.
And in the next video you'll see Amanda Wick, she's the senior investigative
counsel for the select committee, explaining in detail just how he did it.
>> Between election day and January 6th the Trump campaign sent millions of
fundraising emails to Trump supporters sometimes as many as 25 a day.
The emails claimed the quote left wing mob was undermining the election,
implored supporters to quote, step up to protect the integrity of the election and
encourage them to quote fight back.
But as the select committee has demonstrated the trump campaign knew
these claims of voter fraud were false.
Yet they continued to barrage small dollar donors of emails encouraging them to
donate to something called the official Election Defense Fund.
The select committee discovered no such fund existed.
>> I don't believe there is actually a fund called the Election Defense Fund.
>> The first thing that Election Defense Fund was another,
I think we called a marketing tactic.
>> Yes.
And tell us about these funds, marketing tactics.
>> Just the topic matter where money could potentially go to be,
how money could potentially be used.
>> The claims that the election was stolen were so successful.
President Trump and his allies raised $250 million,
nearly $100 million in the first week after the election.
>> So he lied about the existence of an official Election Defense Fund
scammed his own supporters to the tune of $250 million.
And that money wasn't used to do any type of investigation or
legal battle to ensure election wasn't from Donald Trump.
And you know, I go back and forth between whether Trump genuinely believed
the election was stolen from him or
Trump just knowing that it wasn't stolen from him.
But he decided to perpetuate the lie anyway and also scam his followers.
Honestly considering how many high level officials, both campaign officials and
administration officials were surrounding him,
telling him the truth about the 2020 election.
I just have a hard time believing that he genuinely thought he had
the election stolen from him.
>> No the answer is both.
And I'll explain how that could be both.
So he's, unpositive he's definitely genuinely crazy and
I know people who believe in conspiracy theories.
They 100% believe it.
They're not faking it at all and
Trump has believed almost every conspiracy theory he's ever heard.
Remember you went on Alex Jones show and so this is a fantastic show, right?
And so but at the same time he knows subconsciously I keep that clock going,
I'm gonna get that money right.
So both because he partly believes it and he knows it's convenient,
he keeps collecting the money and
if you say well those two things can't be logically consistent either.
He's collecting the money and he knows he's lying.
No, guys but remember Trump isn't logically consistent.
One point doesn't have to connect to the other point.
He can think this is totally stolen from me I know I'm lying, but
it's definitely true and you think you can't think both things but
trump can because he's not rational so that I solved the mystery for you.
Okay, so now look at this what he did though, he called it the official
official election defense fund and it didn't even exist.
>> Doesn't exist just a marketing ploy.
Guys think about it if Bernie Sanders had done an official Election Defense Fund And
we found out it doesn't even exist and our audience, us people we know and
love and care about had given $250 million dollars to it.
And it's gone what we would be enraged,
we would certainly ask questions especially Bernie, where'd it go, right.
>> Especially during a pandemic where tens of
millions of Americans had lost their jobs.
People were already struggling financially prior to the pandemic, but
I mean Trump has no shame.
I mean he think about it, he scammed and defrauded students with Trump university.
He loved to scam and defraud people.
There was also campaign fundraising emails where his supporters
had no idea that the default setting for the, donations was recurring
meaning that they donate once thinking they're only donating once.
But every month they kept recurring.
>> Just keep grabbing more money out of their account.
But he ran a fake charity where he just bought pictures of himself.
>> Literally.
>> I mean literally again literally, but guys,
it's amazing trump being a con man is not amazing.
He's a legendary comment I'll give him that probably not.
Probably definitely the biggest con man in American history by a lot right.
>> Makes Bernie Madoff blush.
>> Yeah Bernie Madoff is nothing compared to trump.
Now having said that that's not the interesting part.
The interesting part is the voters, they don't mind being robbed.
It's weird.
>> Yeah. Like if we were robbed,
we'd be really mad about it and in fact we are super mad at the corporate democrats
all the time, which is like 90% of Democratic Party.
Coz they say they're gonna do one thing and then they do something else and
and we call them out on it immediately.
But like republican especially Trump voters have like this big sign around
their neck, please rob me like I don't mind at all.
Just take my money and use it for your mansions, use it for
your yacht I don't care.
Please rob me, right?
They don't mind at all it's amazing.
All right, so now I'm gonna give you one more sense of the robbery here,
Kimberly Guilfoyle, that's his son's girlfriend.
She gave a speech on January 6th.
You know how much they paid her first?
Let me tell you it was, it was a weighty speech 2.5 minutes.
That's exactly how long it was.
You know how much they paid her $60,000.
>> That sounds like a pretty sweet gig to me.
Yeah, they take guys who are working hard Trump fans and voters.
>> Yeap. >> Given by the way,
the average donation was $17.
Okay, so these are not rich folks.
So they're like, man, I'm making minimum wage, but I love trump so much.
They give their hard earned $17 and Trump was, [LAUGH] Hey,
who wants i Who wants it?
Kimberly, you want it here, I'll give you $60,000 you know how much that is in
minimum wage if you're working a full time minimum wage job, federal minimum wage.
It would take you four years, starting that money.
Four years she got, did it in 2.5 minutes.
So I mean Republican voters, you tell us, do you mind being robbed or don't you?
The committee there was one thing that was a little confusing Trump funneled about
$10 million, give or take to his himself allies, his hotels, etc.
But it doesn't look like he spent a dime on the thing that he was raising money for
the court fights.
So where's the other $240 million?
>> That's a great point and I don't know if they're gonna get into that with
the rest of the hearings that will take place.
Obviously, they investigated the fundraising that took place with Trump
lying about the 2020 election in these fundraising emails.
We'll see what happens but so far to the point that you've made repeatedly Jake,
this select committee has done an excellent job in presenting a lot of
compelling evidence and also evidence.
That we were not privy to before, which I didn't think was possible so