GOP fool gave $2.5 million to investigate "voter fraud," wants it back now 🤣

[Tanuki]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/true-vote-lawsuit-fraud-eshelman/2021/02/15/a7017adc-6724-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main

..."The story behind the Eshelman donation — detailed in previously unreported court filings and exclusive interviews with those involved — provides new insights into the frenetic days after the election, when baseless claims led donors to give hundreds of millions of dollars to reverse President Biden’s victory.

Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party collected $255 million in two months, saying the money would support legal challenges to an election marred by fraud. Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress also raised money off those false allegations, as did pro-Trump lawyers seeking to overturn the election results — and even some of their witnesses.

True the Vote was one of several conservative “election integrity” groups that sought to press the case in court. Though its lawsuits drew less attention than those brought by the Trump campaign, True the Vote nonetheless sought to raise more than $7 million for its investigation of the 2020 election.

Documents that have surfaced in Eshelman’s litigation, along with interviews, show how True the Vote’s private assurances that it was on the cusp of revealing illegal election schemes repeatedly fizzled as the group’s focus shifted from one allegation to the next. The nonprofit sought to coordinate its efforts with a coalition of Trump’s allies, including Trump attorney Jay Sekulow and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), the documents show.

Eshelman has alleged in two lawsuits — one in federal court has been withdrawn and the other is ongoing in a Texas state court — that True the Vote did not spend his $2 million gift and a subsequent $500,000 donation as it said it would. Eshelman also alleges that True the Vote directed much of his money to people or businesses connected to the group’s president, Catherine Engelbrecht."...(more)

[relayerbob]

1. Trump already spent it on his hookers, I believe

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. "A fool and his money are soon parted."

[Glorfindel]

3. Aw, poor Mr. Eshelman...

I can't explain how very sad his loss makes me.

[Tanuki]

5. Just think of how much good he could have done and the positive changes

he could have made with that kind of money, had he chosen to donate it to something constructive and compassionate.

[WA-03 Democrat]

4. This guy makes a lot of sense

He assumed the investigation would find corruption, when there is not any found he realized he was a sucker.

Where is his rugged individualism and self reliance?

Go pick your self up by your man baby boot straps.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. GAK! A Tarheel who sullied the name of my alma mater, UNC-CH. Fuck off, Fred.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. I believe we have found Trump's wealthiest rube/mark. nt

[Baked Potato]

8. Have to admit, that's a lucrative grift - Ka ching!

[marmar]

9. .......

[Shermann]

10. Trump has amassed a $30 million war chest scamming these fools nt

[central scrutinizer]

11. I think it's closer to $200M

But Putin and others are calling in their chits.

[Cha]

12. Brainwashed Suckers

have Consequences

[Gothmog]

13. The true the vote idiots are all crooks and scam artists

[Gothmog]

14. Juanita Jean knows the head of True the votte

Susan used to live near the founder of True the Vote. https://juanitajean.com/true-the-vote/

This will not be the first time, or even the third or eighth time, you have read about Cathy Engelbrecht here at the beauty salon. She’s been on our radar for ten years when she was speaking in church basements and VFW halls in the Houston area, pushing the idea that it’s too damn easy to vote. She would get the attendees name and addresses, mostly very old people, and send them requests for money. She didn’t like my questions and quickly named me “that woman” and told people I was a reporter as she rolled her eyes.

She had difficulty giving me any examples of the horror of illegal voting that she claimed was killing America. I could give her a couple of examples that happened right in her neighborhood, but they were both Republicans. She quickly informed me that she wasn’t talking about just two people, she was talking about hundreds, thousands. She just didn’t know any of them.

And then the third example hit. The Republican man she was personally supporting for county commissioner voted in two states for three elections and I had his signature to prove it. I wrote about it in the newspaper and he was defeated soundly.

I once described her as an attractive woman with a dollar sign on her forehead. She always had her hand out. She was far more concerned with raising money than illegal voting.

And now the Washington Post says she’s being sued for taking $2 million from a donor and producing the same thing I saw her produce – diddle squat.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did. If you do read it don’t get excited and skip over the part where she’s mattress thrashing with a member of her board of directors. Look, I don’t want to slut shame another woman, but she rolled her eyes at me and that gives me a free shot. I’m taking it.

[Tanuki]

15. Wouldn't you think a person would exercise some measure of due diligence

before dropping a couple of million dollars? As Juanita Jean says, Cathy Engelbrecht's past behavior should have raised red flags for anyone who gave it even a cursory glance.