Richard Painter: Why 2025 is gearing up to be one of America's ugliest chapters

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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/trump-s-campaign-sitting-fortune-built-lies-n1288932

The 2024 presidential election is more than two years away but make no mistake about it: Former President Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy — and he’s loaded for bear.

Trump is in the crosshairs of the House Jan. 6 Committee, the Department of Justice, the New York attorney general and prosecutors in Georgia — but he has yet to be charged with any crime. Meanwhile, he has amassed massive amounts of that which is most essential for winning elections: money.

Trump raised this money with a combination of small-dollar donations from grassroots supporters — many of whom still think he won the 2020 election.
As The New York Times has reported, he now has $122 million to spend on a bid for the White House in 2024 — more than twice the amount of the Republican National Committee.

Trump raised this money with a combination of small-dollar donations from grassroots supporters — many of whom still think he won the 2020 election — and corporate interests determined to undermine President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress. Trump’s massive email spamming operation reaches out to hundreds of thousands of Americans almost daily. I receive about 10 emails a week from Trump asking me why I’m no longer supporting him (I never did), why there is a problem with my “payment system” (there isn’t), and whether I want to “renew” my membership in various fan clubs I never was a member of to begin with. Whoever is running this spamming operation for Trump, and thinks I’m a fan, obviously has never watched MSNBC.

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