Trump Could Get Hit With Wire Fraud Charges Over Bogus Fundraising Scheme - YouTube

Channel: The Ring of Fire

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While seditious conspiracy may be one of the most obvious, uh, potential crimes that Donald
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Trump may have committed with regard to January 6th.
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There's other crimes that are really starting to rear their ugly heads right now, right?
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Witness tampering, obstruction of justice fraud against the us government.
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And now a new one that people are finally starting to listen to wire fraud and the wire
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fraud claims actually come from the fact that beginning, just several days after the presidential
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election, actually on the day, it was officially called for president Biden, Donald Trump and
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his team started sending out emails, telling people that you have to give us money for
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this election defense task force is what they called it in these emails that went out from
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the following weeks and months, they kept talking about the election defense task force,
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send us money for the election defense task force.
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And we're gonna use that money.
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They make very clear in these emails.
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We're gonna use all of this money to challenge the 2020 election results in court, but Hey,
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we gotta have money to do it.
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So give to our election defense task force.
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So the problem with that of course, is that the election defense task force doesn't exist.
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All the money that people were donating went right into Donald Trump's political action
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committees.
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None of which is an election defense task force.
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Furthermore, as has been reported for well over a year, Donald Trump didn't spend a single
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dime of his money that he raised on any election challenges.
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All that money either came from the individuals filing the lawsuits or from outside groups,
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pumping money in to allow the lawsuits to be filed.
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Trump raised money.
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In other words, on false premises, which of course should be considered wire fraud here
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is what one former, uh, assistant us attorney for the middle district of Florida had to
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say about it.
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It's not whether you know something.
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Absolutely for sure.
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It's, if it's quote, reasonably foreseeable to you, that people will believe promises
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and statements that you either know aren't true or are reckless or deceptive, which you
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are trying to use to get something of value.
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That's basically what they're talking about with regard to wire fraud.
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It doesn't matter if Donald Trump did or didn't believe the claims, right?
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It doesn't matter if he did or didn't intend to use the money for that.
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And then never got around to it.
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All that matters is that they knew the election defense task force of course was not real.
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And they knew that they were making stuff up to get people, to send them money.
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And they took the money.
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Now again, kind of seems like a pretty clear cut case of wire
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Fraud.
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And if we were dealing with something, that's not a campaign finance issue, this probably
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would've already been prosecuted.
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You know, if I were to go out there, start a little, you know, charity and tell people,
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give me money so I can go save the sea turtles.
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And instead of saving the sea turtles, you send me money and I go buy a mega yacht.
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Actually that sounds like a fraud scheme.
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We've we've heard recently, right?
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With the, we build the wall people cuz they raise money saying we're gonna build the border
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wall.
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They raised tens of millions of dollars.
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And then they used it to buy themselves all kinds of fancy things.
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This is no different.
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This story to me is literally no different just because the money's going into a political
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action committee instead of, you know, into the pockets of a bunch of scammers, doesn't
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make a difference.
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It's the same scenario.
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So if you ask me, I think Donald Trump needs to be worried about this wire fraud scheme
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one because they knew the claims they were making were totally bogus anyway.
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And two, they knew they weren't gonna spend any money trying to fight the election.
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This is something the DOJ needs to be looking at thoroughly.
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This is something the January 6th committee is not necessarily investigating, cuz they've
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got way too many things to investigate now.
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So DOJ off your butts do this, cuz this is right up your alley.
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And maybe we can finally get Donald Trump behind bars.
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I know it's a long shot.
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I know we don't like to be too optimistic about those things, but this seems like a
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pretty clear cut case to me.