Trump’s New Business

Donald Trump has always fueled his businesses by telling lies and providing potential investors with false information.  With his loss in the 2020 Election there is no reason to assume he will stop using lies as a way to raise money for his personal use. "There are a lot of people out there making lots of money on lies, and it's being exploited not just by Donald Trump.   If you look at the big lie, election fraud, the ex-president's team raised something like $250 million between the election and the inauguration to just support something that is just factually not true.  'You can't say we're in a post-fact place', the defense made by former Trump attorney Sidney Powell in a court filing last week that "no reasonable person" could believe her false statements about the supposed role of Dominion Voting Systems in election fraud. Dominion is suing Powell, ex-Trump lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Fox News for defamation over assertions that the voting machine company rigged the election for President Joe Biden. You can't say we're in a post-fact place. It is in the financial interests of a lot of people to promote that.  You can't do it. You have to continue to tell the truth."  Just last week, Trump defended the rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, saying they comprised "zero threat" and that law enforcement was "persecuting" them. The remarks align with false claims about voter fraud repeated by Trump over the months since he lost the November election, including a public address late last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando where he said the vote was "rigged."  Trump and the Republican Party raised about $255 million over an eight-plus week period following the Nov. 3 election, a New York Times report found. Moreover, the individuals charged in the Capitol riot upped their political donations by 75% over the five-week period following the election, compared with the five-week period preceding it, NBC News reported.  One has to be amazed just how gullible the American public has become and equally amazing is the willingness of so many supposedly intelligent people are willing to support obvious lies and misinformation with donations of their hard-earned cash to individuals neither in need of nor deserving of their contributions.