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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Trump Bucks' promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-bucks-promise-wealth-maga-130000452.htmlIn the recesses of the internet where some of Donald Trumps most fervent supporters stoke conspiracies and plot his return to the White House, suspected con artists have been mining their disappointment over the last presidential election for gold.
Theyve been peddling Trump Bucks, which are emblazoned with photos of the former president, and advertising them online as a kind of golden ticket that will help propel Trumps 2024 bid and make the real patriots who support him rich when cashed in.
John Amann told NBC News he bought $2,200 worth of Trump Bucks and other items over the past year only to discover they were worthless when he tried to cash them in at his local bank. So hes gone on Twitter to warn other Trump supporters not to fall for this scam.
NBC News has identified the Colorado-based companies behind the Trump Bucks as Patriots Dynasty, Patriots Future and USA Patriots and reviewed dozens of social posts, online complaints and hundreds of misleading ads for the products. Additionally, NBC News has found at least a dozen people like Amann who say they invested thousands of dollars after watching the pitches on Telegram and other websites that strongly suggested that Trump himself was endorsing these products.
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You know why Trumpers are so against education? It's fucking embarrassing when 8 year-olds are smarter than you.
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'Trump Bucks' promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
May 2023
OP
"only to discover they were worthless when he tried to cash them in at his local bank."
Scrivener7
May 2023
#2
Ocelot II
(115,816 posts)1. P.T. Barnum knew whereof he spoke.
Scrivener7
(50,992 posts)2. "only to discover they were worthless when he tried to cash them in at his local bank."
And they vote.
Blue Owl
(50,485 posts)3. Imagine working at a bank, and having some yokel come in to try and cash this nonsense
You'd think at that moment, it would finally dawn on the yokel that they've been scammed!
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)4. .
Tetrachloride
(7,865 posts)5. Darwin. Some won. Some lost.
Among the rest of us, most also lost.