$250 million in donations to a fund that was a front to his lies in two months time. The frenzy worked.

June 17, 2022
By Rob Garver

Former U.S. President Donald Trump (click here) raised $250 million in donations in the weeks after the November 2020 presidential election for an organization ostensibly intended to fund court challenges in support of his false claims that the election was fraudulent. Instead, he directed that money to an unrelated political action committee, or PAC, according to congressional investigators.

In its second hearing about its findings, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol made the case that the former president knew that he had lost the election but continued raising money from his supporters by sending out appeals for donations to an Election Defense Fund.

The committee played recordings of depositions given by former employees of Trump's campaign, one of whom said, "I don't believe there is actually a fund called the Election Defense Fund."

Another former Trump campaign staffer said the fund was simply a "marketing tactic."...

Trump has proved to have a trend in manipulating public opinion.

What concerns me is the pattern of behavior by Trump over a wide expanse of time.

In this article Michael Cohen states he regrets the blind loyalty to Trump. 

Yesterday during the January 6th Committee Stephen Ayers (click here) witnessed that he wished he hadn't followed Trump's lies. Here we are again with blind loyalty. The mob was not self directing so much as taking orders from Trump to march to the Capitol.

This phenomena that is Trump's is documented and even before he caused the insurgency. 

May 4, 2017

By John Gartner

...Despite all evidence to the contrary, (click here) Trump asserts that his New York office was bugged by President Obama, and that his inauguration had the biggest crowd size in history. Before the election, Right Wing Watch published a list of 58 conspiracies proclaimed by Trump.

Is it all for effect, to rile up his base, deflect blame and distract from his shortcomings, or does Trump really believe the insane things he says? It’s often hard to know, because as Harvard psychoanalyst Lance Dodes put it, Trump tells two kinds of lies: the ones he tells others to scam them, and those he tells himself. “He lies because of his sociopathic tendencies," Dodes said. "There's also the kind of lying he has that is in a way more serious, that he has a loose grip on reality."...

What the January 6th Committee is finding through it's investigation is the methods of Trump. These methods take people in because it is what they want to believe  regardless of the truth. Trump always appears to be credible, treated unfairly and able to have others take the consequences because they followed him blindly.

As the January 6th Committee concludes it's hearings and publishes it's findings, it must take into account the expanse of time that has occurred with Trump's ability to lead people at their own peril while he benefits from the lies. This is a pattern with his behaviors. What occurred on January 6th and leading up to it is more of the same lying, capturing others to blindly trust him and eventually having others take the blame. This time Trump must take the blame for his self-righteous assault on the USA Constitution.

January 17, 2019
By Phillip Ewing

President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen (click here) acknowledged on Thursday that he schemed to rig online polls that sought to make Trump seem like a more plausible presidential candidate.

The story was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. In a tweet following the report, Cohen said he sought to help Trump's political aspirations, having been directed by the candidate.

"What I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of [Trump]," he wrote. "I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn't deserve it."

Cohen's goal appears to have been to pay computer specialist John Gauger to
use software that would help Trump do well in at least two online surveys in order to make it appear that Trump had more support than he actually had.

Trump, who had flirted with presidential runs before but never made much headway, may have wanted to make it seem as though voters found the idea of his candidacy compelling, notwithstanding his lack of government experience....

The newspaper above states "Election 2016." Trump was starting his lie and protests about fraud before the general elections of 2016 ever took place. The date of that is October 19, 2016. It is the exact same pattern as his approach to the insurrection in 2021. Exactly the same. It is a method of fraud, not the truth. He is not someone who is insane or unbalance, quite the contrary, he is in control of the lies and he knows it.

Enough already.