The Primetime "special" and I am glad you gave it the proper name, cause that's what it was......proved nothing.
the hearings are going to be laid out like a court trial. thursday was only the ' opening statement ' ... the rest will be proving that donny had a 'consciousness of guilt ' because he was told by numerous people that there was no fraud & it will be shown that his INTENT was to defraud by continuing to lie AND solicit cash from his dupes - - - just like the conman he is. this is gonna be set up like a RICO case.
Jan. 6 panel: Trump campaign used 'big lie' to raise millions from supporters
Christopher Wilson
·Senior Writer
Mon, June 13, 2022, 12:37 PM
“The Trump campaign knew that these claims of voter fraud were false yet they continued to barrage small-dollar donors with emails encouraging them to donate to something called the ‘Official Election Defense Fund,’” Amanda Wick said. “The select committee discovered no such fund existed.”
In a taped deposition, former Trump campaign staffer Hanna Allred said, “I don’t believe there is actually a fund called the Election Defense Fund,” while the campaign’s digital director agreed that the Election Defense Fund was a “marketing tactic.”
Wick noted that much of the money went to the Save America PAC, which was created on Nov. 9, two days after the election was called for Biden. That PAC then routed $1 million to two separate organizations tied to Trump staffers, $204,857 to the Trump Hotel Collection and $5 million for the company that organized the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the violence at the Capitol, according to Wick.
Jan. 6 panel: Trump campaign used 'big lie' to raise millions from supporter
Christopher Wilson
·Senior Writer
Mon, June 13, 2022, 12:37 PM
The committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot said that former President Donald Trump’s campaign fundraised off of baseless allegations of election fraud but spent very little of the money on legal action.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said Monday morning that the House select committee would show “that the Trump campaign used these false claims of election fraud to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters who were told their donations were for the legal fight in the courts. But the Trump campaign didn’t use the money for that. The ‘big lie’ was also a big rip-off.”
“We’ll present evidence that Mr. Trump’s claims of election fraud were false, that he and his closest advisers knew those claims were false but they continued to peddle them anyway right up until the moments before a mob of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol,” she said.
During the hearing, a senior investigative counsel for the committee said that Trump supporters received upward of 25 emails a day urging them to donate to an election defense fund that did not exist.
“The Trump campaign knew that these claims of voter fraud were false yet they continued to barrage small-dollar donors with emails encouraging them to donate to something called the ‘Official Election Defense Fund,’” Amanda Wick said. “The select committee discovered no such fund existed.”
In a taped deposition, former Trump campaign staffer Hanna Allred said, “I don’t believe there is actually a fund called the Election Defense Fund,” while the campaign’s digital director agreed that the Election Defense Fund was a “marketing tactic.”
Wick noted that much of the money went to the Save America PAC, which was created on Nov. 9, two days after the election was called for Biden. That PAC then routed $1 million to two separate organizations tied to Trump staffers, $204,857 to the Trump Hotel Collection and $5 million for the company that organized the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the violence at the Capitol, according to Wick.
A February 2021 analysis from ABC News found that in the three months that followed the election when Trump and his allies were peddling the conspiracy theory that the race was stolen, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $280 million. Only $13 million of that was spent on legal expenses, with more than $100 million going toward “various fundraising expenses and advertising efforts aimed at raising even more money.”
Jan. 6 panel: Trump campaign used election lie to raise millions from supporters
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Racketeering is not a single crime or a single criminal act, but an organized scheme. It may include many different crimes occurring over a period of time. When the
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) was passed in 1970, Congress used it to fight organized crime in the traditional sense, as depicted in movies like "Scarface" and popular television shows like "The Sopranos," but the law has also been used in a variety of other ways. Many states have enacted
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According to the
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The RICO statute was designed to change that.
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