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WAS ELECTION DENIAL JUST A GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEME? DONORS’ LAWSUITS LOOK FOR ANSWERS.

Widespread voter fraud is a fake problem, but some conservative donors say they’re getting scammed out of real money.

For The Intercept

By Richard Salame Feb. 6 

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S post-election litigation was, in legal terms, a flop. In financial terms, however, it was an unparalleled success, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in donations. While a small percentage of that money was spent on doomed legal challenges, much of it went to pay off the campaign’s debts, straight to the Republican Party, or to finance a leadership PAC that Trump can use to fund his future ambitions. More than $2.7 million flowed from the Trump campaign to individuals and firms involved in the January 6 rally in Washington, D.C.

The former president isn’t the only one who cashed in on manufactured voter-fraud panic. Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., have both fundraised off the lie.

Read more at: https://theintercept.com/2021/02/06/election-deniers-profit-lawsuits/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

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