Discussing his forthcoming book, “The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism,” slated for release this Tuesday, Conason asserted that Trump is deeply entrenched in a pattern of financial deception.
In conversation with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Conason elaborated, “The book outlines how conservatives got to the point where they are milking their own constituents for every penny they can squeeze out of them on false pretenses in almost every case.”
He continued, “The epitome of this, of course, is the former president, who booked a quarter of a billion dollars after the 2020 election by telling people he was going to set up an official election defense fund. And, of course, the money didn’t go to that, but they pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars in two months after the election, and it was going — it ended up in a super PAC that he controls and that he can spend on anything, including, of course, his legal defense, not election defense, his legal defense, his personal legal defense.”
Discussing his forthcoming book, “The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism,” slated for release this Tuesday, Conason asserted that Trump is deeply entrenched in a pattern of financial deception.
In conversation with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Conason elaborated, “The book outlines how conservatives got to the point where they are milking their own constituents for every penny they can squeeze out of them on false pretenses in almost every case.”
He continued, “The epitome of this, of course, is the former president, who booked a quarter of a billion dollars after the 2020 election by telling people he was going to set up an official election defense fund. And, of course, the money didn’t go to that, but they pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars in two months after the election, and it was going — it ended up in a super PAC that he controls and that he can spend on anything, including, of course, his legal defense, not election defense, his legal defense, his personal legal defense.”