{"id":30947,"date":"2021-02-15T16:54:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=30947"},"modified":"2021-02-16T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:45:09","slug":"a-fool-and-his-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=30947","title":{"rendered":"A Fool And His Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/true-vote-lawsuit-fraud-eshelman\/2021\/02\/15\/a7017adc-6724-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html\">Like many Trump supporters<\/a>, conservative donor Fred Eshelman awoke the day after the presidential election with the suspicion that something wasn\u2019t right. His candidate\u2019s apparent lead in key battleground states had evaporated overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, the North Carolina financier and his advisers reached out to a small conservative nonprofit group in Texas that was seeking to expose voter fraud. After a 20-minute talk with the group\u2019s president, their first-ever conversation, Eshelman was sold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in for 2,\u201d he told the president of True the Vote, according to court documents and interviews with Eshelman and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c$200,000?\u201d one of his advisers on the call asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c$2 million,\u201d Eshelman responded.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next 12 days, Eshelman came to regret his donation and to doubt conspiracy theories of rampant illegal voting, according to court records and interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he wants his money back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good luck with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many Trump supporters, conservative donor Fred Eshelman awoke the day after the presidential election with the suspicion that something wasn\u2019t right. His candidate\u2019s apparent lead in key battleground states had evaporated overnight. The next day, the North Carolina financier and his advisers reached out to a small conservative nonprofit group in Texas that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30951,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30947\/revisions\/30951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}