Holy shit. Having the balls to admit in court that your sweepstakes is fraudulent! That's a special kind of special.
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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Some people were calling this the day he announced it. That it would turn out they weren't random, thus not an illegal lottery.
He's not ~~half~~ a sixtheenth as clever as he thinks he is.
Isn't this false advertising then?
IANAL, but would anyone have standing to sue if there aren’t any losses? It’s not like people bought tickets.
I mean that's still time and effort to do whatever form was necessary to "apply". It also probably runs foul of lottery rules to have not randomly picked winners because everyone else didn't have a chance of winning. Like if someone "in the know" adulterates the powerball numbers the fact that everyone else was statistically unlikely to win doesn't change that they lied about the chance to win.
Hilarious. The MAGA movement is like a fractal of grifts.
Your honor, it’s not a lottery, it’s just a scam.
So you lied to Pa voters that it was a lottery
Illegal lottery in Pennsylvania, okay.
But how does this not also violate FEC regulations and, you know, US law? He’s literally paying people to vote and the implication is to vote for his specific candidate.
"When you're rich, they let you do it."
A scammer that is scamming to elect a con man. Sounds about right.