Inside the Jan. 6 committee's effort to trace every dollar raised and spent base on Trump's false...

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/08/jan-6-fundraising-trump/

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The House Jan. 6 committee has waged high-profile legal battles with Donald Trump and his closest allies as it tries to uncover every detail of what happened that day and determine what culpability the former president may have for the violent attack on the Capitol.

But it has also been focused on another part of its inquiry that panel members said is of equal importance to the success of the investigation — tracing every dollar that was raised and spent on false claims that the election was stolen.

Committee investigators have interviewed low-level Trump campaign aides who wrote fundraising pitches, grilled Trump advisers about who may have personally profited from the post-election cash haul and even dialed up the owners of a portable-toilet company to find out who paid them to put toilets on the Ellipse the day of the insurrection.

The questioning is part of an effort by the committee’s “green team” to scrutinize whether the Trump campaign, its affiliated super PACs, the Republican National Committee and protest organizers knowingly used false claims that the election was stolen to dupe donors and raise large sums of cash, according to people involved in the probe and witnesses who have appeared before the committee who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the panel’s work.

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[Achilleaze]

1. "People were swindled financially and psychologically..."

Republican family values role model swindles Republicans. They love it. They wallow in it. They brag about it.

No wonder the Republican Big Cheese-in-Chief thinks of them as "suckers" and "losers."

That's the same damn vile opinion the Republican leader holds concerning our sons and daughters in uniform defending the USA from Russia and all the other violent, hate-driven forces in the world.

[NCjack]

2. Be sure to look for money diverted to Trump family.

I mean in addition to the usual payments for prostitutes, drugs, and alcohol, the money that was retained in Trump bank accounts and the money paid on his loans.