Even grifters aren’t safe from other grifters:
As Donald Trump rushes to start collecting the $1 billion expected to be necessary to compete for the White House, one of his biggest challenges may come from those claiming to support him.
An increasing number of unauthorized groups are invoking the presumptive GOP nominee’s name to raise money, suggesting that they’ll use the cash to support his campaign, even as some appear to be spending most of their money on contracts with favored consultants.
via Politico
I’ve said before that the grifters primarily inflict themselves on the folks on the right, mostly because they are much stupider on average than the folks on the left. Even the rich ones get taken in on a regular basis by big name grifters like Karl Rove. It is deliciously satisfying to see the con-man candidate being victimized by his peers.
But we are not immune. The grifters on our side, by contrast, are the official committees, like the DNC, DCCC, and DSCC. They call their base raising money to elect Democrats, and then use it to try to replace real Democrats with Republicans-lite (Some examples here, but they are legion). Luckily we have Act Blue, which, in the main, lines up behind real Democrats.
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