While America's Fraudster-in-Chief,
president-reject Donald John Trump, continues
to defraud his fans and followers with spurious claims of a
"stolen" election and impassioned (and successful) pleas for the rubes' money, it's past time on this Whirled for renewed attention
to another lifelong fraudster, imprisoned serial scammer Kevin Trudeau, aka KT, aka
Katie, whom I've been blogging about since early 2009. As you
most likely know if you've been following this blog even
sporadically over the past few years, I've actually written a lot
about the similarities between Donald Trump and Kevin Trudeau, not the least similarity being that they share a
significant fan base, which is why I lost a few readers when I
started writing about the profound awfulness of Trump.
And in fact, Trump and his campaign's efforts to frame their
money-raising efforts in a "legal defense fund" to
protect the integrity of the election and the Constitution (or
some such nonsense) reminded me more than a little of Trudeau's
own efforts over the years to raise money for his
legal defense fund. Trudeau's
defense fund has been promoted as a means to support unspecified
legal efforts by Katie and, by extension, to somehow defend free
speech, and freedom in general, for all of us. But according to the terms of both Katie's
legal defense fund and the Trumpian funds, the money can pretty
much be used any way the recipients want to use it, with zero
accountability to those who fork over their hard-earned bucks.
The difference, of course, is that Trump's efforts are on a much
larger and more dangerous scale than anything Trudeau and his
minions have managed so far.
That said, it would be a serious mistake to underestimate the
scope and reach of Trudeau's scammery: after all, even though he
continues to languish in the minimum-security FPC (Federal Prison
Camp) in Montgomery, Alabama, aka "Camp Cupcake," he has
still managed, with the help of various proxies and enablers, to
maintain a significant following and attract new followers. I've
been hammering away at this point on this blog for years. And
that's why it's so gratifying to see the Spotify series Fraudsters addressing Trudeau's long scam career: a career that
has been so lengthy that it took not one, and not two, but three
separate podcasts to cover it all. The producer and host I spoke
to acknowledged that they could easily do a whole season on
Trudeau alone.
Since I am kinda media shy, apart from ranting on this blog and
on my social media of course, I declined to "appear" on
the podcast, but I did provide some info for which I was
acknowledged on Part 3, the episode covering Trudeau's biggest scam of
all, the Global Information Network (GIN). That episode aired on December 10, 2020.
Part 1 aired on November 26,
2020.
Part 2 made its debut on Dec.
3, 2020.
Kevin Trudeau may or may not be early-released soon (his official release date is either May or July of
2022), but one point seems painfully clear: In or out of the
clink, he is a scammer for all seasons and all reasons. And his
years of confinement have done nothing to change this; to this
very day he is (again, through proxies and enablers) making
himself out to be a hero and martyr along the lines of Jesus,
Gandhi, and a host of other famous -- and infamous -- folks. Caveat emptor and all that.
