Donald Trump caught committing wire fraud
Donald Trump has committed so many different kinds of crime, both before and since taking office, it’s difficult to keep track. Suffice it to say that if he loses the election, state and federal authorities will be fighting over who gets to arrest him and put him on trial first. Now Trump has been committing yet another crime.
The Donald Trump 2020 campaign is now sending out text messages and emails, purporting to be from Donald Trump Jr, claiming that the recipient is the only one out of a hundred selected people who has failed to donate. This is an obvious lie, and Norm Eisen of the Brookings Institution says that means it’s wire fraud under the law:
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This is 18 USC 1343 wire fraud by Trump campaign
No way the other 99 really replied, so all elements are met
1)scheme to defraud 2)with intent to defraud & 3) foreseeable & actual use of interstate wire comms.
Barr won't investigate, but states can under analogous state crimes https://t.co/q9FUap2PIJ
— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) June 19, 2020
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Donald Trump Jr will no doubt claim that he didn’t know his name was being used in this manner, and it may be difficult to find proof that Junior did consent to having his name on this particular scam. But Donald Trump is responsible for the actions of his campaign, meaning it’ll be on him to demonstrate that he didn’t know his campaign people were doing this in the campaign’s name.
