For example she's glommed onto Seth Abramson's Twitter conspiracy grifts.
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Ahead, read about Ivanka's most egregious grifts overstatements from the story.
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Filmed in 1958- about a conman who grifts a small town of suckers into building a wall.
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As far as grifts go, it was very, very good — at least to watch from a distance.
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Sanctions offer their own opportunities, grifts ready-made to plug into a cryptocurrency system just over the horizon.
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"These are rumors and grifts and scams that are causing real catastrophic consequences for people at risk," Green said.
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One of the more popular grifts is to tell you the horseback ride is free and included in your ticket.
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The former Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, whose cavalcade of grifts continues to intrigue both Congress and the agency's inspector general.
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It's those leaks, and his inability to stop them, that should scare Trump—grifts don't work if you can see the trick being pulled.
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We are wasting our time with this whole music writing thing and need to start a business that grifts MAGA grandparents out of their money.
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It's long been clear that Donald Trump's family foundation, the Trump Foundation, is not a generous and ethical charity, but just another of his grifts.
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So here are seven of the most absurd scandals, scams, and grifts of 2018 that weren't launched by Trump or his immediate orbit of shady operators.
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Peddling a bouquet of grifts as varied as tax fraud and real estate scams, they prey on our suspicion of institutions, financial illiteracy, greed and despair.
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But the grifts have evolved significantly over the last decade, as scammers have learned that they can extract much bigger payouts from big businesses than lone victims.
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But Facebook recently banned all cryptocurrency ads for frequently being associated with financial grifts, and numerous high-profile scams have scared many newcomers away from the space.[CNBC/Bloomberg]
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The first time Neil Gaiman wrote about the Norse gods, they were the con men at the heart of American Gods, subsisting off petty grifts in belief-starved America.
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Facebook is more likely to shut down obvious grifts where businesses make impossible assertions about how their products can help people, rather than just exaggerations about their quality or value.
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Thankfully, there are a few things you can do to avoid falling for one of these grifts: Stop buying things you find at the bottom of a rabbit hole online.
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Hosts Jesse Farrar and Mike Hale have become unofficial historians of bad Kickstarters, rounding up poorly-thought-out gadgets, tasteless creative projects, and blatant grifts from the world of crowdfunding.
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He refused to see America's shortcomings and hypocrisies as the result of a hundred grifts and petty cons, a chaotic mish-mash whose effects were essentially random and almost always uncoordinated.
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Most of these boneheaded grifts bleed together into one long, libertarian migraine—but only one of them can claim to have cost DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather Jr. more than $750,00 combined.
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Photo: APWith its endless parade of corporate shills, industry flacks, cronies, and quacks, it's become clear that there are no acts of pettiness too shabby—or grifts too cheap—for Donald Trump's administration.
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Accordingly, she grifts her way after Eve to England in a pair of stolen superhero pajamas, charming medication for her still-oozing wound out of the pervy middle-aged men who are her favorite targets.
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But who among the presidents of the last half-century has been so publicly cavalier about conflicts of interest, so blithe about getting away with whatever grifts he could, so lavishly meanspirited and so proudly rude?
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And yes, this strategy will be familiar to anyone who's observed President Donald Trump, whose history of cons and grifts is well-documented (The Dream also points to his history of profiting from marketing MLM schemes).
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As with other nonsensical and aggravating fees and practices, ISPs get away with this because they amount to regional monopolies or duopolies and are all running the same basic set of grifts for extra cash on top of your subscription fee.
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Coronavirus grifts crop up online for political gain and profit Earlier this week, Facebook announced that coronavirus-related searches on its platform would be greeted with an automatic pop-up featuring information from the World Health Organization and local health authorities.
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Yet since the 2016 election, we appear to be caged in on all sides by just that—the student loan crisis, corporate-level scams and other grifts, breaches of data and foreign cyber warfare, not to mention crimes in the White House and its environs.
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Financial elite-led economic collapse, subsequent stock-market fiascos, ponzi schemes, white-collar crime sprees, rich people stashing their assets in offshore tax shelters—capitalism, to many people these days, is less visible as an engine of prosperity than a series of shady grifts.
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Once a high-flying blood-testing company that made its founder, Holmes, the richest self-made woman in the country, Theranos has since been described as "massive fraud" by the Security and Exchange Commission—the most high-profile grift in a decade of grifts.
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And then there's the prince of perks: Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, whose list of petty grifts includes everything from customized fountain pens, to telling an aide to procure a used mattress, to an attempt to use his office to secure a Chick-fil-A franchise for his wife.
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Once you begin to identify such arrangements as grifts, you are bound to discover, in our baroquely capitalist society, that loads of things are essentially grift-shaped, from oddball start-ups to arcane financial services: They begin with a slick appeal, go on to create nothing of concrete value and end, like any good bilking, with your money in new pockets.
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From a young age, Cole Cash took part in his con man father Jacob Winston "Win" Cash's various grifts, until Cole witnessed his father's apparent murder at the hands of mobster Sam Del Gracci.
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In "winged" cats with cutaneous asthenia, the pseudo-wings only occur on the shoulders, haunches, or back, and the cats can often actively move these growths, suggesting the presence of neuromuscular tissue within them, which is not present within clumps of matted fur alone. The third explanation is a form of conjoining or extra supernumerary limbs. These non-functional or poorly functional growths would be fur-covered and might resemble wings, as in one winged-cat case recently documented by Karl Shuker , in which the "wings" were shown to be supernumerary limbs. There are more than 138 reported sightings of animals claimed to be winged cats, though most of these are clearly nothing more than individuals with clumps of matted fur, some cases of cutaneous asthenia or supernumerary limbs, and others taxidermy frauds (freakshow "grifts"), or just sensationalist tabloid journalism.
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