January 6th Committee just blew open Donald Trump’s “stolen election” money trail
The way things are going, Donald Trump is going to end up criminally indicted on charges like election fraud and seditious conspiracy on the federal level, state level, or both. But the way these kinds of charges work, it’ll be a lot easier to get a conviction at trial if it can be shown that Trump financially profited from these crimes, because that’ll help prove that Trump took these actions for his own benefit rather than some kind of misguided belief that the election was actually in dispute.
To that end, the January 6th Committee has announced that it’s followed the money trail and determined that Donald Trump raised $250 million for an ‘Election Defense Fund’ that simply didn’t exist.
Not only has the committee proven that Trump already knew he’d legitimately lost when he began raising this money to fight a legal battle over the election, he then just pocketed the money instead of fighting that battle. This nails Trump on financial fraud, in addition to election fraud and sedition. It’s a big deal in terms of ensuring that Trump is actually convicted once he’s inevitably indicted.
