When you’ve lost Trevor Noah…
Have a watch as “The Daily Show” host takes on the GoFundMe campaigns of #Resistance heroes Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe:
“Half a million dollars on a GoFundMe just for hating Donald Trump. There are cancer patients on that site that are like, ‘Hey, we hate [Trump] too! Can you pay for my treatment?”
I can't believe I'm saying this but I just saw a Trevor Noah segment that I liked and thought was both insightful and funny: on the obscene GoFundMe campaigns for FBI agents like @PeterStrzok and Andrew McCabe, & the monetary exploitation of the #Resistance generally – Part I: pic.twitter.com/WVtwQy5ylw
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 17, 2018
The segment continues:
“And I get it. People are desperate for anything that can hurt Trump even a little bit. But that’s how scams work. By preying on the most desperate.”
Part II: pic.twitter.com/ug6jYwnp2U
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 17, 2018
And the conclusion:
And the conclusion – perfectly capturing the huge and growing industry of #Resistance scam artists preying on people's fears and desperation that they purposely inflame for that purpose: pic.twitter.com/0pIBpkjJlW
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 17, 2018
More of this, please.
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