websites selling bogus currency claiming to be issued by the former president have been shut down after nbc revealed the companies were scamming trump supporters out of tens of thousands of dollars. peddling the fake money as a ticket to help reelect trump and make them risk when they catch it in. to be clear, there is no evidence allege scammers are connected to trump or his reelection campaign. but nbc news senior reporter, randi sub john ski, wrote this story. and he is joining me right now, this is a wild one. tell me about the company s, about the products they were selling, which are created so call official trump 2024 gold cards, and trump rebates banking system membership cards, i, mean i didn t know trump had a bank. but anyway, what were these trump supporters promised and what did you uncover? nice to be with you, alex. really nice to see you, so this whole scam was based on these fake currencies, right? these commemorative coins, basically. we ve seen them, they have them
democrat you can strategist and cnn political commentator, he wrote, here s the simple reality as i see it. in recent elections, most voters who reject extremism have tend ed to vote democratic. this means the vast maujty of votes that a presidential candidate would receive would likely come out of joe biden s pool of voters, not former president trump s, assume ing t 2024 election turns out to be a rematch. remember, in 2020, president biden won three states by less than 1%. this week a think tank published a memo caution ing the plan wil only hurt democrats. siting the spoil isser alert. it warned rather than producing a third-party ticket to win, no labels is on track to field a spoiler, who would reelect trump or a trump-like republican. in response, no labels posted a statement that read in part, no
eastman documented the scheme in a stunning memo obtained by the authors and shared with msnbc. and what that memo proposed was nothing short of a coup. it called for pence to site on going disputes over the slate of electors from seven states which pence would declare invalid and toss out. by cancelling the votes trump would be left for majority and pence could gavel him in with pence himself as having been reelected. if democrats object, eastman proposed sending the matter to the house where republican whose control the majority of states would have voted to reelect trump anyway. their theory it was a win, win for trump either way of course, that s not how the process is supposed to work. for one thing, eastman falsely asserted pence as vice president was the ultimate arbiter of any
i have the head of facebook coming with his lovely wife and they come have dinner with me at the white house. you see what they do about me and about republicans and that sort of crazy. that s the way the world works. greg: watching how the media treats joe biden, it s an obvious question but worth bringing up. there s always a game that we play on the five. imagine if its trump. joe biden leaving behind afghan translators. if it were you, you would be called a racist, correct? mr. trump: they would be impeaching me. greg: now you have this phone call, this phone call that he made to the afghan president asking them to live. that is not a perfect phone call. mr. trump: my call was a perfect call. greg: how do they square that in their heads, knowing what they did before. talking about the media. mr. trump: my call. we sent it to the justice department. i didn t know who they were.
fight fire with fire. greg: what are your plans for 2024? mr. trump: i love our country. two or three years ago you might not of been that happy. but another going be very happy. especially when you see what s happening. i ll make a decision in the not-too-distant future. i love our country and i think a lot of people are going to be very happy. you look at the poll numbers, i certainly like that. we got on the other day, 98% approval in the republican party. reagan had 87. we have a 90% approval rating. that makes me feel good. it makes me feel appreciated. not like a guy like you they can be critical. in the past. only the past. greg: i have to ask, do you miss twitter? do you tweet in your head? mr. trump: a lot of people think twitter was bad for me. i disagree. i think it was good for me. twitter has become a very boring