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.
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.
I’ll wager a lack of critical thinking skills is a primary ingredient for such a mentality.
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
That’s why making education only available to the wealthy is a priority for those who wish to exploit people.
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.