Isaac Saul
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Yeah.
Trevor Milton is a guy who donated $1.8 million to Trump's campaign, his reelection fund going into the 2024 race.
And he was found guilty of securities and wire fraud.
And what he did is sort of this notorious... There's actually... You could go find the YouTube video online.
But he basically went to investors...
with a story about this functional truck his company had developed.
And basically everything he said about the truck was a lie.
And the thing that sort of became what he was known for was that he showed investors video footage of this truck driving on the road.
And it came out after the fact that he had actually rolled the truck down a hill
In order to make it look like it was operational and functional when the engine didn't actually work and the mechanics of the truck didn't actually work.
And after his conviction, he owed $676 million in restitution to the people he defrauded.
Trump pardoned him and wiped that restitution out.
So not only did he get him out of jail and get him off from his crimes, the victims of the fraud, hundreds of millions of dollars of people who invested in this company, don't get their money back.
And the hook here is that Milton's defense attorney was Attorney General Pam Bondi's brother.
And Trump got asked about the pardon.
And he first said, I've never heard of the guy, which is just like,
Stop and pause there for a moment.
Either he's telling the truth and he just pardoned a guy who he didn't even take the time.
You know, the most powerful unchecked thing he can do is pardon people.
And he didn't even take the time to read five minutes about his crime.