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George Santos Took $3K Raised For Disabled Veteran’s Dog

In 2016, George Santos - the out gay congressman from Long Island - reportedly setup a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for a disabled veteran's service dog. Over $3,000 was raised but Santos took the money and ghosted on the veteran and his dog.
George Santos (campaign photo), Richard Osthoff & Sapphire (image via Osthoff)
In 2016, George Santos – the truth-challenged gay congressman from Long Island – reportedly setup a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for a disabled veteran’s service dog. Over $3,000 was raised but Santos took the money and ghosted on the veteran and his dog. Sapphire died in January 2017 without receiving the necessary treatment. Continue reading “George Santos Took $3K Raised For Disabled Veteran’s Dog”

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After Losing Primary, Madison Cawthorn Has No Money To Refund Donors

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) reportedly spent general election campaign donations during his primary, which he lost. Now he's on the hook for hundreds of thousands in refunds to those donors.
Freshman Congressman Madison Cawthorn (R-NC)
Just in case you needed any more proof what a grifter Madison Cawthorn is, The Daily Beast reports the soon-to-be-unseated congressman spent general election campaign donations during his primary – that he lost. He is legally required to return the general election funds to donors except he spent it all. Continue reading “After Losing Primary, Madison Cawthorn Has No Money To Refund Donors”

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Trump Balked At Legal Bill After Raising $170+ Million From Supporters

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Trump balked at hefty legal bill after raising over $170 million from his cultists
Donald Trump speaking to Axios (screen capture)
Donald Trump balked at paying the legal bill proposed by the legal team that was set to defend him in his second impeachment trial. According to many, Trump wanted the lawyers to continue his line of baseless claims that the election was ‘stolen’ from him, which has no basis in reality. The attorneys said the best course of action would be to argue against the constitutionality of the impeachment proceeding saying the Constitution doesn’t provide for impeaching a president out of office. In any case, the legal eagles flew the coup coop. But now, Axios reports that Trump balked at paying the legal fees the lawyers were requesting. Mind you – this is after Trump had already grifted over $170 million from his cultists to be used for legal defense.

The notoriously stingy former president and his lead lawyer, Butch Bowers, wrangled over compensation during a series of tense phone calls, sources familiar with their conversations said. The argument came even though Trump has raised over $170 million from the public that could be used on his legal defenses.

The two initially agreed Bowers would be paid $250,000 for his individual services, a figure that “delighted” Trump, one of the sources said.

However, Trump didn’t realize Bowers hadn’t included additional expenses — including more lawyers, researchers and other legal fees that would be accrued on the job.

He was said to be livid when Bowers came back to him with a total budget of $3 million. Trump called the South Carolina attorney and eventually negotiated him down to $1 million.

Scrambling, Trump announced on Sunday he had found new attorneys to represent him:  David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor Jr. Trump is probably not worried about being found guilty anyway after a preliminary vote showed 45 Republican Senators are not in favor of the impeachment proceeding.

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Trump Reverses On Awarding Himself G7 Summit Contract

After much pushback from Republicans and Democrats, Donald Trump announced he will not award himself the contract to host the next G7 summit at his Florida golf resort. Trump attempted to say the decision wouldn’t enrich him because he offered to host the event ‘at cost.’ Of course, even if that were to be true (who would ever know?) the amount of world-wide press/publicity his property would get would be worth millions at a minimum. Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Fox News’ Chris Wallace Team Trump was “surprised at the pushback” they received over the idea. As CBS News’ David Begnaud notes “it’s surprising that they were surprised.” In that Trump owns the Doral, he was going to make money off of one of the biggest annual political summits in the world.

So, Trump decided NOT to commit a felony and now he’s mad about it???

(image via Flickr/WhiteHouse – public domain)