John Long was at home at his pig farm in Colorado when he received a message he never expected. Marian Morgan, a scammer who had stolen $20 million from him and thousands of other investors through a Ponzi scheme, was being released from prison less than halfway through her 33-year sentence.
It was not for good behaviour or because she had paid her victims back. Morgan was being released because President Trump had commuted her sentence, freeing her and writing off the restitution payments she owed the people she had defrauded. Long, an 80-year-old Trump voter, believes Morgan is “criminally insane”. He added: “She’s going to suck money out of somebody.”
Morgan is one of about 1,800 criminals who have been pardoned or freed from jail by Trump during his second term. The vast majority were convicted or charged in relation to the riots on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, after Trump lost the previous year’s election; he pardoned them en masse when he returned to office last year.
But he has also pardoned individual criminals, including fraudsters who owed more than $1 billion to their victims and American taxpayers, according to the House of Representatives judiciary committee. Many of them, including Morgan, were absolved of the debts they owed their victims.
Republicans are full-on in the throws of FAFO-ing, but its rather amusing for someone to vote for the known conman only to end up losing out on your share of the $20+ million in restoration from a con. I only wish his finding out was video recorded so we can watch it in YouTube over and over. We all have to suffer tRump, but theres a certain level of glee to get from this. We’re all suffering from Trump, but I am just hoping it keeps hurting MAGAts worse! He f*cking deserves this. But, knowing how STUPID the MAGAts are, I bet he’d vote for tRump again.
There’s supposedly a certain mentality that makes for a good mark; the result of this is that the same people end up getting conned repeatedly. It’s also the same mentality that skews to tribalism.
It was also purposefully turbocharged by Rodger Ales. Millions of people unknowingly live in information deserts today. Purposefully erected around them just for this purpose.
I’ll wager a lack of critical thinking skills is a primary ingredient for such a mentality.
That’s why making education only available to the wealthy is a priority for those who wish to exploit people.
Surprisingly no; it skews slightly to conservative thinking, but people who can apply critical thought perfectly well in some parts of their lives seem to be able to be conned in other areas. It also doesn’t map to religious beliefs. It seems to be a tribalism override where if people identify as being in the same group as the scammer, logic and critical thought are bypassed without the victim even being aware.
Question everything, including yourself
This is why there is an entire market for scammers to buy lists of victims from each other. And why some scam groups hoard their lists like dragons, so they can scam the same mark repeatedly over the years.
It’d be funny if I didn’t have to live with the repercussions of this shitshow.
You and everyone else on the planet. His shit will splatter everywhere
They’ll vote for another Republican president just as corrupt and shitty as this one. Makes no difference. All they have to do is get on stage and say something about muslims, trans, slavery reparations (as in we’re not paying them), mexican immigrants, and finally, replacement theory. That’s all. Simpletons.
So the author was conned once by a Ponzi scumbag, then conned again by Trump. It’s probably time to declare themself mentally incompetent, find a trusted family member, and give them power of attorney.
The Times was like, “this is our guy,” and published him.
I voted Trump. Now he’s pardoned the $20m Ponzi fraudster who conned me
Now, what does that make you?
A moron. I knew this after the first three words.
You guys should enforce your 14A3 rule and get Trump’s second term nullified as legally invalid due to disqualification.
Then erase all the pardons and prosecute everybody who followed his orders.
Fool me once…
Fool me every time.
I voted for a known conman convicted of 3-dozen felonies, to say nothing of his racism, sexism, misogyny, transphobia, and the fact that he’s literally the most documented liar in human history. But then the bastard conned ME!?
“Eating babies was one thing, but conning me is a step too far”
And you deserve every bad thing that happens to you.
oh, no! how horrible! at least you’ll learn something important from this, right? right‽
Lawyers working on pardon cases say a “cottage industry” has sprung up under Trump where attorneys and lobbyists who are close to the White House claim they can use their access to the president to secure pardons — for a price.
Just more open corruption, everybody! Nothing to see here! Go about your business! Maybe somebody with a spine will magically show up to hold these criminals accountable for their actions, you’ll just have to wait and see!
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 35379 times, but what about Obama’s email to Hillary about Hunter’s birth certificate!?!
M’laptop hunter bidems!
I have no fucking sympathy for these people what’s so fucking ever. I’m exhausted. We yelled and yelled and yelled that this shit would happen from the fucking highest mountain in America and they just shrugged their shoulders and pointed it some trans kid just trying to be fucking left alone or some fucking Mexican working on the side of the road thinking that that mother fucker is going to take your job. I’m done with these people fuck them fuck them fuck them fuck them there isn’t there is nothing I mean nothing redeemable about these people. They have shown time and time and time again that they are fucking idiots. I am exhausted.
Is it any surprise that the people who voted for Trump are also the most likely people to become victims of a con?
And yet, they will vote for him again
How else they gunna stop COMMUNISM?
The sound was off…
To Trump a fraudster is just another businessman, he simply can’t tell the difference, because he is so without morals that it’s all the same to him. It is not that he is going against an inner voice warning him, “Hey this may be wrong”, the voice simply isn’t there, and it never was. The only wrong he is capable of registering, is if he feels wronged himself. If people are against him that’s wrong, and he feels that very very strongly.
That’s the nature of being a malignant narcissist or psychopath².And the people who couldn’t see that and voted for him, they absolutely have a problem with lack of morality and empathy too.
