'Trump Bucks' retailers' websites taken down, days after being exposed for selling bogus currency

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

The companies who appear to have swindled supporters of former President Donald Trump out of tens of thousands of dollars by peddling them bogus “Trump Bucks” no longer have active websites just days after their businesses were exposed by NBC News.

The websites where the Colorado-based Patriots Dynasty, Patriots Future and USA Patriots companies were selling everything from Official Trump 2024 Gold Cards to Trump Rebate Banking System (TRB) membership cards purportedly issued “by Donald Trump” himself are no longer active.

Similar websites that also promise “real patriots” will get rich if they buy these products remain active, but they have been disabled by the online retailer ClickBank, which connects the purveyors of these products to potential purchasers.

“This site is no longer in service or has been disabled due to a terms of service violation” was the message that popped up when an NBC News reporter tried to make a purchase. Jennifer Beevers, ClickBank’s vice president of client and customer advocacy, said it was the right thing to do.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-bucks-scam-websites-unavailable-rcna86916

[hlthe2b]

1. I wonder how many MAGATs were scammed (and how much $$ they made out with)

Where is PT Barnum when you need him?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Like the "Build the Wall" scam that just got a trial date this past week, for May 2024

Steve Bannon’s ‘We Build the Wall’ scheme trial set for May 2024

Politics May 25, 2023 4:49 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Bannon, the conservative strategist and longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, will stand trial next May on charges that he duped donors who gave money to build a wall along the U.S. southern border, a judge said Thursday.

Judge Juan Manuel Merchan set Bannon’s trial in the “We Build the Wall” case for May 28, 2024, amending his calendar after realizing that the date he announced in court — May 27 — is next year’s Memorial Day holiday, when courts will be closed.

If the schedule holds, Bannon will stand trial soon after Trump is slated to do so in the same Manhattan courtroom in an unrelated criminal case.

Bannon, 69, pleaded not guilty last September following his indictment on state money laundering, conspiracy, fraud and other charges. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg took up the case after Bannon’s federal prosecution was cut short by a Trump pardon. Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, not state offenses.

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/steve-bannons-we-build-the-wall-scheme-trial-set-for-may-2024

so too will this probably have its day in court eventually!

[DENVERPOPS]

16. They should have started

printing Confederate money again.......They would have sold a ton of it................

[Trenzalore]

2. Here is how you know it is a cult

Does anyone think there are any on the left that would purchase Biden bucks?

[Chainfire]

4. What is the world coming to if the king can't mint his own currency?

[Initech]

5. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[erronis]

6. They like being scammed. Just like the faithful tithers in the churches.

Spending money on something that will give you no pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

Just like when I order some new gadget from Amazon - get the rush and then the guilt.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

18. You don't have to feel guilty

About the Amazon gadget.

At least you'll probably get some use out of it, unlike these BS bucks.

And, unlike the religious tithing, you got something real with your money.

So there's that.

Win/win.

[3Hotdogs]

20. What? You don't wanna go to heaven?

[ffr]

7. If this was a situation where any other person was grifting the public

They would have already applied the three strikes rule.

LOCK THE GRIFTING TREASONWEASEL UP!

[keithbvadu2]

8. Trump sued his own party for unauthorized use of his name and likeness because the money they raise

Trump sued his own party for unauthorized use of his name and likeness because the money they raised took from his own take.

I have not seen any articles that Trump has sued this bunch.

Wonder if he got a cut here?

[NBachers]

9. Take the Money and Run

[DemocraticPatriot]

10. I once did business through 'Clickbank'-- its foundation based upon making it easy

for online entrepreneurs to sell digital products, while Clickbank processed credit card transactions for us....
It's largest influence preceded the preponderance of 'PayPal'... My small successes using them was in the early 2000s...

All of my products were 'non-political'. I am not surprised that any type of 'pro-Trump' products marketed through them have now been banned...

[Rhiannon12866]

11. He's desperate to get his grifting in before Jack Smith's hammer falls..

[calimary]

12. I bet that's it.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Too late!

[Rhiannon12866]

14. LOL! Bad timing - yet again!

[Kennah]

17. Fruits and instrumentality of a crime

[cstanleytech]

15. The people that actually bought any of those "bucks" should consider seeking help with a

professional in treating those with mental health issues.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

19. We know the cure for what ails these idiots

It's called proper education.

Stupid isn't a mental illness.

[Wonder Why]

27. I disagree. It's a terminal illness. No cure for stupidity. We are all born ignorant but

some die stupid.

[mwb970]

21. Is there ANYONE who is easier to con and trick than a trump cultist?

These people appear top be literally mindless.

[machoneman]

23. Nope!

[machoneman]

22. Ever dollar the swindlers got means fewer dollars to R politicos!

Let that sink in

[Ray Bruns]

24. Good. That means the MAGATS can go back to buying Trump's stupid trading cards.

[SpankMe]

25. I'm not gonna bash Trumpers for losing their money

For real... I feel sorry for these mostly elderly people who think they're getting something of value and are losing their money. How humiliating it must be to pay $99 for a token that is advertised as being redeemable for $10k at a store, only to be told at the Costco counter that you've been scammed.

Lower income elderly people - even Trumpers - don't deserve this.

I hope this is investigated and the scammers arrested and prosecuted - even if it turns out to be liberals taking advantage of gullible MAGAts.

If millionaire's spent thousands on this stuff, I have less sympathy for them. But the elderly poor - I'm very sad to know this has happened to them.

[yardwork]

28. I agree. It's very sad. Elderly people are vulnerable.

This is just one of many scams aimed at elderly and vulnerable people.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

26. Patriots..has lost all meaning. Code for Nazis, and con artists looking for Patsies.

No shortage in the MAGA crowd.

[Hekate]

29. May the swindlers end up living in cardboard boxes. Alex Witt MSNBC asked the cogent question...

She wanted to know who was hit the hardest.

The reporter, who had been exhibiting suppressed signs of Schadenfreude, sobered up and said the daughter of an elderly disabled woman discovered her Mom’s tables covered with this junk that Mom had spent tens of thousands of dollars on.

[hatrack]

30. How can this not be wire fraud/mail fraud?

From the article excerpted above:

In addition to promising that their investments in the products would help propel Trump back into the White House, the ads also falsely suggested that Trump will make the “real patriots” who support him rich.

For example, the ads say, a “$10,000 Diamond Trump Bucks” bill purchased for $99.99 can be cashed in for $10,000 at major banks like Bank of America and retailers like Walmart, Costco and Home Depot.

[andym]

31. They should have just created these as a cryptocurrency

at least there would be others-- likely MAGAts/MAGA-DONs (note Trump's name for them includes his own) to keep the price of tokens up for at least some time. But that would have required more sophistication from the scammers.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. He does have NFTs out (for about the same price as the bucks)

Trump boasts about making $4.6m from NFT cards that actually plummeted in value

The second series of Trump’s digital trading cards feature him in the likeness of George Washington

Ariana Baio
Wednesday 19 April 2023 17:49


Donald Trump released a second iteration of his NFT trading cards on Tuesday and despite bragging about making $4.6m the actual value of the cards dropped significantly. The former president announced on 18 April that he was selling another series of the NFT trading cards, similar to the ones he released this past December.

“I am pleased to inform you that, due to the great success of my previously launched DIGITAL TRADING CARDS, we are doing it again, SERIES 2, AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW,” Mr Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.

Approximately six hours later, Mr Trump said all of his 47,000 digital trading cards sold out, totalling $4.6m.

But the actual value of the trading cards told a different story as the floor price dropped from 0.42945 ETH to 0.18 ETH within 24 hours according to OpenSea.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-trading-cards-nft-b2322583.html

[Aristus]

33. Damn. That's too bad.

I love it when the rubes get fleeced.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. I'm still cracking up over the Trump bucks debacle!

TFG supporters are very stupid people

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