Trump's Stupid "Collectible Trading Cards" Return - TechNewsDay

Trump Digital Trading Cards if God willing Trump loses the election nine weeks from now one of the few elements of the Maga era that we might actually feel a a tinge of bitter sweetness about finally moving past is the fact that absolutely no one sells worthless slop to his fans like this guy Trump has always sold lowquality overpriced junk to credulous Rubes since long before he entered politics with Trump endorse products like Trump Stakes Trump vodka Trump University and even the art of the deal and his any other books and since the magum movement kicked off plenty of third-party grifters have correctly intuited that Trump's fans will buy literally anything with his name attached to it no matter how stupid for reference see our recent video on trumpy trout just a a wonderful video and a wonderful product great product it's great because he's not the one selling it it's I don't know anything about trumpy trout but I'm a big fan so for the past nine years it's mostly been that kind of garbage from other people hoping to capitalize on Trump's fandom but in the leadup to the 24 election Trump himself has been more desperate for cash than in previous election cycles due to the insane amount of civil and criminal litigation that he's faced so we've gotten stuff like Trump's line of hideous overpriced sneakers as well as his own line of non-fungible tokens nfts speaking of those sneakers they were supposed to drop like this summer or actually get the orders fulfilled and you would assumed that uh because of the hype beasts and all of the hype surrounding them earlier in the year that they would have made a bigger Splash especially I would assume at the RNC well people uh figured out that you can buy the exact same shoe from China with the same branding and everything on it oh well but I also I haven't checked maybe the shoes are in hot demand yeah or no idea again people are probably just holding onto them as a collector's item yeah the smithsonian's going to want these shoes but back to those nfts you're saying H guys it's been like three or four years who in their right mind would be buying and selling nfts now Trump fans yeah Trump first launched his nfts in December of 201 22 and it was hilarious for multiple reasons now first off the timing the nft bubble had very much burst by then it was done that's 2022 secondly Trump hadn't yet announced that he was running in 2024 and before the nft reveal this was hyped up as a major announcement oh my gosh that his fans understandably assumed would be something more consequential than a collection of poorly photoshopped images of Donald Trump in various outfits and thirdly it was pretty clear that Trump himself had only the vaguest idea of what the [ __ ] an nft even is hello everyone this is Donald Trump hopefully your favorite President of all time better than Lincoln better than Washington with an important announcement to make I'm doing my first official Donald J Trump nft collection right here and right now they're called Trump digital trading cards these cards feature some of the really incredible artwork pertaining to my life and my career it's been very exciting you can collect your Trump digital cards just like a baseball card or other Collectibles my official Trump digital trading cards are $99 which doesn't sound like very much for what you're getting buy one and you will join a very exclusive Community it's my community and I think it's something you're going to like and you're going to like it a lot they also make perfect gifts so you can buy them with your credit card or crypto all you need is an email address go to collect Trump cards.com and buy your Trump digital trading cards right now before they are all gone and they will be gone this is my first official Trump trading card nft collection and you get a chance to meet me go to collect Trump cards.com right now and remember Christmas is coming and this makes a great Christmas gift and yeah not only just the most hideous low effort trash basically dolls paper dolls but you can't even hang it on your wall to trigger your lib family members when they come over for Thanksgiving you're paying $99 for a JPEG on your phone that you own and it just doesn't get the same effect when you show your niece hey look at that I paid $100 for that and you got to come over here and look at it cuz I'm not sending it to you this thing gets into the wrong hands uh you know I had to watch several YouTube videos to figure out what a crypto wallet even is and I'll be damned if I let you make off with this Treasure of mine it has to have happened once so far where a young lib family member pisses off the patriarch and he goes That's it the Trump nft cards are coming out of the will yeah you get nothing you get nothing I'm gonna leave them to Trump yeah to his campaign yeah yeah sir a final donation they say but yet somehow uh that garbage sold out in like a day netting Trump around $4.5 million so it wasn't much of a surprise when almost exactly a year later he released a new collection of trump digital trading cards and this time instead of Trump's head photoshopped onto various costumes AI image generators handled all the hard work of making these things look hideous here you go hi everyone this is your favorite President Donald J Trump with some very exciting news my last two Trump digital trading card collection sold out in just hours and now I'm back with my latest series called the mugshot Edition I wonder where that came from the mugshot Edition 47 all new stunning cards and here is the best part I'm doing two important things for my trump collectors for the first time we're creating a real physical trump card purchase 47 digital cards and we'll mail you a beautiful trading card it is an authentic piece of the suit I wore when I took that now famous mug shot and it was a great suit believe me a really good suit it's all cut up and you're going to get a piece of it I'll be autographing some of them a true collector's item this is something to give to your family to your kids and your grandchildren with the purchase of 47 of the Trump digital trading cards you will also be invited to join me for a Gala dinner at my beautiful maralo my home in Florida youve perhaps heard of it it's become a pretty famous place we just had our first dinner for my collectors and we had a lot of fun together that was a great evening that was a fantastic evening some people call these cards pop art or Modern Art I wish I looked as good as I do on those cards that I can tell you they give me muscles where believe me I don't have them I wanted to keep my trump digital trading cards at the same price $99 each so go to collect Trump cards.com it's really easy to buy well folks Trump is back at it again there is now a new collection of trump digital trading cards sir a third round has hit the airwaves yeah and you're going to want to collect them all and this is just in time for uh for the election obviously and it is just as weird as ever but it also reeks of even more desperation and and some weird perks yeah there's definitely perks here so check this out by popular demand I'm doing a new series of trump digital trading CS you all know what they are we've had a lot of fun with them it's called the America First collection 50 all new stunning digital trading cards it's it's really something these cards show me dancing and even me holding some Bitcoins here's the best part I'm doing great things for my trump digital card collectors first there's the real physical Trump cards purchase 15 or more of my trump digital trading cards and we'll mail you a beautiful physical trading card it's really I think quite something each physical trading card has an authentic piece of my suit that I wore for the presidential debate and people are calling it The Knockout suit I don't know about that but that's what they're calling it so we'll cut up The Knockout suit and you're going to get a piece of it and we'll be randomly autographing five of them a true collector's item this is something to give your family your kids your grandchildren number two is to purchase 75 of my trump digital trading cards and you will also be invited to join me for a Gala dinner at my beautiful country club in Jupiter Florida we really have tremendous dinners with my collectors have a lot of fun together we're going to have a good time I'm keeping my trump digital trading cards at the same price of $99 each we've done that right from the beginning so go to collect Trump cards.com it's really easy to buy you just need an email address and a credit card or crypto you know they call me the crypto president I don't know if that's true or not but a lot of people are saying that so don't miss out go to collect Trump cards.com have fun with your Bitcoin and your crypto people tell me uh people like this stuff I love how much he leans into that when like clearly to this day we have no evidence that Trump knows what cryptocurrency even is no he just likes that people who own it seem to like him yeah and so he's like yes Bitcoin very cool have fun with your crypto here's one of me holding a Bitcoin so yeah interestingly compared to previous Trump nft drops we get very few glimpses at what any of these new cards look like in the ad and what we do see is pretty generic Trump fan art compared to the previous collections which like at least in the original ones we got vague glimpses at what it would look like if Trump was a cowboy or a pilot or a big game hunter all fantasies of a six-year-old MH a fire truck driver I won't be a garbage man asked or not mhm these new ones mostly just give us a glimpse at what Trump would look like if he went to the gym and ate healthier or was just younger yeah yeah it's just Trump 20 years ago there are clearly ones where even the reference image is like that's from the that's from like 2000 and we've got to imagine that that is the main reason that he's so on board with this I mean the money is nice but Trump is a notoriously vain person and all these pictures where he looks like someone 20 years younger and actually in decent shape it's got to be like catnip for him because well that is how he sees himself and it's also notable how heavily he's leaning into the crypto angle compared to previously m m i mean this has always been crypto but before he was marketing this crap to a more General audience he bar I don't even know if he said and he maybe said nfts once in the original video he's like no it's it's collectible digital cards they're like a baseball card but well in your phone and that's because even then nft was a toxic term it was but he was also he was marketing it to people who had no [ __ ] clue what an nft was yeah and clearly being goated into saying things like Bitcoin nft crypto now is he didn't do that before yes yeah now he's trying to court them yeah mhm he really wants to be the Bitcoin president whatever the hell that means probably because crypto dorks are notorious marks who can be easily exploited financially and are obviously extremely right leaning well I mean I'd say the median crypto person is more libertarian leaning but yeah in general uh definitely more right leaning than left yeah especially at this point the dead Enders yeah they're uh it's people who will vote for Republicans because they won't apparently allegedly or whatever tax their crypto gains or something that's that's why anyways we should be fair to Trump and acknowledge that these $99 digital Collectibles come with the possibility of actual real world benefits yeah take that board Apes take that crypto punks what do you mean I could get like a side of fries down at the for8 cafe or whatever if you combine two Trump cards you actually get a mutant Trump mhm and that doesn't destroy your original Two Cards yeah um yeah lot of lot of y'all still don't get it buy the serum folks so uh Trump the actual rewards buying five nfts that's $500 gets you a free pair of gold Trump sneakers okay that's what they're holding on to them for benefits buying nine nfts gets you two pairs you know because you're going to be wearing the first pair so much they're going to wear out yeah gotta have a backup and that's actually sort of a deal considering the shoes alone sold for $500 yeah so you get you're basically paying the price of the shoes yeah and you get five nfts for free yeah uh but buying 15 nfts gets you the suit fabric physical card that is a a piece of Trump's suit from the debate where he killed Joe Biden uh yeah that is it's it's the debate suit The Knockout suit as he refers to knockout suit a lot of people are calling it The Knockout suit uh plus a different pair of trump shoes that are definitely uglier than the gold ones yeah upgrade to get the worst shoes mhm but that makes them more rare cuz they produce less cuz they right uh also buying 75 nfts gets you all of that plus dinner with President Trump and then more pairs of shoes and more nfts and then spending $247 on 250 of these pieces of [ __ ] gets you basically just double that first deal but for more than double the cost yeah big he knows a lot about very smart uh also the uh the dinner with trump it is it is pitched as dinner with him it looks like you're going 500 other losers sitting in like the ban yeah it's not marago it's not it's in Jupiter Florida which is like further away and not what you're what you think it is it's not you're not sitting down at the other you know you're not sitting down next to Trump you're going to be invited to some event where he comes out and says thank you very cool enjoy your crypto and then as seen in this ad you'll have the unfortunate result of ending up in another Trump Trading Card ad where you're posing with him proving yeah to everyone that's watching thaty buy these wasn't a scam some real people actually did so these are tremendous deals and Trump definitely knows a lot about deals there was uh I I follow or didn't follow them but I I consulted the Trump colletible cards official Twitter account they are on Twitter even if Trump isn't yeah hopefully he didn't download they had the I I found a video from like a previous uh dinner with Trump event and yeah it was a giant room giant Banquet Hall um and it was the person there filming look around the table and it was just like no not a not a woman in sight just like that's cool where's your wives and girlfriends oh sorry she couldn't come there's only one invite on this n B yeah my unfortunate I'm married to Trump yeah but in some pretty ironic timing the nft marketplace as a whole is SEC vs OpenSea of course still nowhere near where it was four years ago in terms of demand and enthusiasm and now just one day after Trump's latest nft drop the world's biggest nft Marketplace looks to be in potentially serious trouble here's CNBC crypto Marketplace openc has been added to the sec's list of targets as the regulator extends its Crackdown on the sector the company's CEO said in a post on X on Wednesday that the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a Wells notice against openc a Wells notice is typically one of the final steps before the SEC issues formal charges It generally lays out the framework of the regulatory argument and offers the potentially accused an opportunity to rebut the sec's claims the letter according to the openc chief alleges that the non-fungible tokens or nfts sold on its platform are securities openc is a popular platform that allows users to create sell and buy nfts so this is basically the same debate that has gone on for several years now about whether cryptocurrency should be regulated the same way stocks bonds and other Investments are and the SEC has been going after pretty much every big crypto Marketplace lately yeah even Robin Hood uh nfts would appear to be a bit more difficult to label as Securities given the whole non-fungible element of it but sites like openc don't really do anything to hide the fact that nfts are less about collecting and more about flipping them for profit but anyways uh we don't particularly care now that this garbage isn't being marketed to normies as a get-rich quick scheme the way it was a few years back but news like this is exactly the kind of thing Trump vaguely claims he'll do something about if Bitcoin Bros donate to him and vote for him yeah also a big uh strike against the whole I let you keep your monkeys your beautiful monkeys that you love Yeah your lazy lions and your other things we we all know what they are the the crypto the the the guys with the eight bit animations um another strike against crypto though because one of the one of the big selling points for crypto is being able to uh send money uh in to and from places that uh aren't you aren't really typically allowed to do that and binance at seemingly the behest of the Israeli government uh decided to not allow that uh very interesting because yeah I mean which kind of deflates the entire argument yeah that's a big part of the p and um yeah I mean even when crypto was a really hot topic that was like one of the biggest defenses of it is like it's impossible to get money into Gaza and the West Bank um without using cryptocurrency I've watched videos of like people in Gaza and they're like yeah it's all through crypto like we go down to the bank the bank [ __ ] just bends us over with fees so like if you send $200 in crypto to Gaza they get like $100 in the end but um it's pretty much the only way any money is getting in or out there at a time when um they really need it so um yeah that that is interesting that binance would just be like oh okay sure no problem well anyways in one more bit of trump Debate mic muting debate news that's pretty amusing there's another presidential debate coming up in less than two weeks oh boy and it'll be the only debate between Donald Trump and kamla Harris before the election there was of course already a presidential debate back in June but as you're already aware a lot has changed since then directly because of how that debate went for both of the participants for one of the participants in particular oh yeah yeah yeah well this next debate seemed for a while like it probably wouldn't even happen but now that it's on there's still apparently some disagreements between the two campaigns about how it'll all go down here's Politico who first broke the story the holdup whether or not the candidates microphones will be muted when it isn't their turn to speak back when President Joe Biden was still running for re-election his campaign came to an agreement with trumps there would be two debates CNN's on June 27th and ABC's on September 10th conducted by mutually negotiated rules one of Biden world's red lines which the Trump team agreed to was that microphones would be muted throughout the debate except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak as CNN announced on June 15th now the sides have flipped Harris's campaign wants the mics to be hot at all times during the ABC debate as has historically been the case at presidential debates we have told ABC and other networks seeking to host a possible October debate that we believe both candidates mics should be live throughout the full broadcast Brian Fallon the Harris campaign senior advisor for communications told playbook in a text message last night confirming our reporting our understanding is that Trump's handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don't think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own we suspect Trump's team has not even told their boss about the dispute because it would be too embarrassing to admit they don't think he can handle himself against vice president Harris without the benefit of a mute button it's clear the veps team is hoping to get Trump to lose his cool on Mike and it is funny he he was he commented on this he was and it was basically I think they knew he was going to want whatever the opposite they wanted and he's I don't know I thought the the muted mics worked out pretty well but I guess uh cuz before he absolutely did not want that yeah no he was uh it made him very upset even the notion that mikees would be muted which Biden really pushed for yeah um but yeah so yeah response Trump's campaign is really pushing back hard on this proposal saying the rules have already been agreed to even though they haven't the rules for CNN debate were agreed to the rules for ABC I think are still up for debate also you were that was a different campaign you were negotiating with anyway this is despite previously in 2020 the Trump campaign saying that any mic muting in that Year's Trump Biden debates would be a total deal breaker no no no the mics stay on that's why I think the Harris team put did this publicly because they knew he would just do the like want the opposite but they had already agreed for muted mics and Harris is like you know what actually unmute him wait wait wait no we agreed to mute yeah they really want Trump to be muted anytime that he tries to talk over KL Harris while he's answering a question and uh I think what the Harris campaign is saying makes sense he was playing on easy mode against Joe Biden didn't really lose his cool in that debate in June but debating against a younger more popular and more articulate opponent is much more likely to Rattle him and get him to say some weird possibly offensive [ __ ] that won't win him any new fans he's going to talk about her race he's got a lot of I mean so Trump like off the cuff the craziest moment was probably that uh National Association of black journalists event which um I'm sure people on his campaign were just like [ __ ] that was not good even though they did try to spin it as yeah he told the media to their face how much he hates them but um yeah that was that was Trump unfiltered and I think they're like you know maybe filters are good we'll see maybe if he's just answering questions and not uh just interjecting with every thought that pops into his head maybe that would be better yeah but yeah we've got potentially that to look forward to very soon September 10th is the first one I don't know about the other if there's going to be others but uh I could never forget the date that that debate is happening on oh man you you you'd hate to see Ted Cruz trying to stay up to watch that debate knowing he's got a very big day the next day yeah yeah once the clock strikes midnight the the [ __ ] strikes moisturizer he's going to jerk off on 911 what he does that's what he does but before we move on the more news including the arrest of the CEO of a major social media Network we got to let you know this episode is sponsored by mintmobile with big Wireless providers what you see is never what you get somewhere between the store and your first month's bill the price you thought you were paying magically skyrockets with 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not as well known as Facebook Instagram Tik Tok or we chat or I think it's a lot more similar to like Discord it's a bunch of chat community there's no like audio component yeah kind of what it is it's got elements of like Discord or Reddit kind of but like more private yeah it's group chats that you can also direct message on and yeah that's that's pretty much it but telegram actually has a lot more active users than Snapchat and even Twitter it was originally more of a direct messaging Focus platform but has gradually become more of a social network and its Founders previously created the Russian social network VK basically Russia's Facebook before leaving to start over once the Russian government basically took over and really the only thing you need to know about telegram is that in comparison to other social networks it's pretty much anything goes which is there's there's good and bad yeah it is great for stuff like organizing protests in places with repressive governments but it also means it hosts a lot of illegal activity and welcomes hate groups and terrorists and what I do want to point out one of the good things that has been uh that telegram's helped with is because it's it is anything goes this was pointed out in 404 media this is where a lot of the actual on the ground footage from Palestine is coming from yeah it's also where a lot of Israelis hang out and uh say even more reprehensible things than they say on Twitter which if you can believe it I don't know if you I don't know if you ever clicked translate from Hebrew on just any random post on there but it is um always shocking like wow okay I'm sure they have a community where can all share those very strange pictures where they dress up in their victim's uh lingerie yeah it's a Hebrew tradition go around to put on your victim's naughty bits yeah but as far as the bad stuff like uh historically historically like this is where attacks are planned uh an obscene any Mount is obscene but chat rooms dedicated to C Sam stuff yeah like notoriously this is like the one it's like the one platform that like Isis literally Isis was uh using this is the platform where January 6 was planned yeah one of several yeah when it was reported that telegram CEO pav durov was arrested in France over the weekend without publication of what he was accused of which I guess in the French justice system I don't get it but I guess they can arrest you and they don't have to say why for like at least a couple days but uh it was assumed by most that yeah it probably had something do with all that illegal activity and hate speech if we had to guess as 404 media explains we at 404 media have seen and reported on much of the illegal activity on telegram with our own eyes telegram is widely and blatantly used in the open by drug dealers who advertise their products on Facebook and Instagram hackers who sell credit cards in public groups hacking Crews that have begun to commit physical violence against each other widespread fraud rings and people who make and sell non-consensual AI generated sexual content of celebrities Ordinary People and miners crucially much of this content is not encrypted because group Chats on telegram are not encrypted and because encryption is not enabled by default it would be more accurate to call telegram a messaging app on which a version of encryption can be enabled for certain chats if you want it is not really an encrypted messaging app many of these devices and groups are advertised in the open and many of these groups have thousands of users in our experience telegram does very little to remove this sort of activity and in many years of reporting on them we can think of only one instance in which telegram actually banned a group we sent to them uh that group that they sent to them they they explained this further on their podcast that group that they sent was a group that you could pay crypto to and then send photos of just average people in your life ex-girlfriends or family members or people enemies and they would create realistic AI pornography of them uh and that was I guess the one that was wrote back and acted in some way to to censor it or something wow okay but the article then goes on to explain why the news of durov's arrest seems to have particularly enraged the American right-wing with figures like Elon Musk Tucker Carlson and Ian mil Chong framing the arrest as a Witch Hunt and an attack on Free Speech basically signal a platform that's pretty similar to telegram but actually much more secure and is pretty much just an actual encrypted messaging app pissed off conservatives when they decided mostly out of thin air that a member of its board of directors was an extreme leftist sleeper agent and therefore the entire platform was compromised so ironic that they all of this actually moved a gigantic base from a real encryption secure app to a place where is what ended up being a Honeypot for a lot of seem that yeah yeah so this resulted in telegram getting boosted as the real encrypted messaging app despite again not actually being as encrypted as signal and so when the CEO of telegram got arrested well that must be part of some leftist plot and I do want to out that like the the tricking saying that oh we should go use telegram now because I think it was someone that was on the board of NPR if I'm remember yeah it was like during what you know your annual uh NPR is woke uh controversy you have one every year but uh it was like one of the people higher up at NPR happens to be you know on the board of directors of signal and um as we all know board members individual board members uh have just huge levels of influence over day-to-day op so clearly this person and they're like look at this she doesn't hate trans people she she thinks George Floyd yeah so that's almost the exact same thing that happened between the uh the phones that were supposed to be encrypted for criminals to use oh yeah there was uh they got one got busted that was actually legitimate and they're like oh we should go use this other one this an all these other phones keep getting busted by the FBI but this anom they're not busting anyone and it was just the FBI the entire time yeah anyways no it is not an anti-conservative plot unless you think cracking down on cess Sam uh is anti-conservative which well anyways here's the wall here's the Wall Street Journal French judicial authorities brought preliminary charges against telegram founder pavl durov for a host of crimes including complicity in distributing child pornography illegal drugs and hacking software on the messaging app a stunning blow for an entrepreneur who became a hero for internet Libertarians over the past decade the authorities also charged durav with refusing to cooperate with investigations into illegal activity on telegram Paris prosecutor Laura BAU cited an almost complete absence of response from telegram to judicial demands BAU said telegram had popped up repeatedly in investigations into child pornography drug trafficking and inciting racial hatred online since the apps launch in 2013 other prosecutors around France and in other European countries noted the same Trend when the Paris prosecutor consulted them she said that prompted French investigators to examine whether telegram Executives were criminally liable for the illegal activity taking place on the platform yeah okay I I mean it doesn't seem like it should be controversial that a platform enabling those types of crimes and doing nothing to stop it should face legal scrutiny for it when a government tells you there's [ __ ] like that happening on your platform it's pretty dumb to not only repeatedly ignore them but then show up in their jurisdiction expecting them to just not do anything about yeah the French government keeps sending me strongly worded letters about the crimes happening on my platform but uh let's go to France let's get on the Jet and go over to France yeah um again I I really think like there's the most recent 404 podcast is a very good Deep dive into this because they've been reporting on it for a very long time and focused solely on it so they they have much more information than a lot of other outlets but they they go into like the fact that Mo almost all other social media platforms Facebook even uh X sorry everyone out there that thinks it's an ultimate Free Speech platform but all of them have some sort of uh emergency contact police police connection where if anything goes wrong or there's there's an email address or a phone number yeah does not have that they have like their their headquarters is in like Dubai but it's just like an empty office so like no one even knows like who works there or how to get a hold of them yeah so I mean maybe they just didn't check the mailbox for 11 years they also go into a part about how apparently they're more responsive in certain countries because of the laws in those countries and how severe they handle it so they will get apparently email back if someone from South America says something about copyright again that it's very fascinating listen but at the time at the same time uh there are legitimate uses for this platform especially for users who live in countries where free speech is heavily repressed so there are reasons to see this as a bad thing but there's also many many reasons to see this as literal serious crimes being prosecuted the way serious crimes should be doing crimes on the internet doesn't make them any less criminal and while most people would agree that Free Speech shouldn't be a crime most people would also agree that drug trafficking and child pornography are definitely crimes yeah it's I mean one of the one of many episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia that like really hit a particular issue on the head was the episode where they decide that Patty's Pub is going to have no rules and at first it's like yeah like uh it's like hell yeah you should be able to do that and then it gets like okay that guy's peeing in the corner like all right well I don't like it but you know that's the cost of freedom and then by the end it's just it is a straight up like drug and criminal den and people are playing Russian roulette in the basement and it's like no normal person wants to be there yeah and uh yeah that is that is how this [ __ ] often goes or it's also the the classic anecdote about uh you let one Nazi into your bar and even you're Nazi bar well yeah he's a nice guy he's not causing any trouble but then he brings friends and they bring friends and before you know it you're a Nazi bar no I would say that letting one Nazi into the bar would make me assume that that bar is a Nazi bar yeah so that's my stance on it but Bank CEO crypto scam uh speaking of crimes we've seen numerous examples in recent years of people falling for what seem to be pretty obvious scams and a recurring element to a lot of scams is the scammers insisting that the victim not tell the bank why they're suddenly withdrawing large amounts of money and that's because Bankers are trained to recognize common scams and try and stop the victim from losing all their money so it's pretty wild that in this next story The the victim of a get-rich quick scam involving sending large amounts of money to a random person in exchange for huge crypto gains was actually the CEO of a bank or a CEO who blew 47 million dollars of his own bank's money on the scam resulting in the bank collapsing a ton of people losing their money and the bank CEO getting sentenced to more than 24 years in prison it's a wild story here's ARS Technica Shan Haynes was first targeted by scammers in late 2022 apparently when he got a message from an unidentified co-conspirator on WhatsApp prosecutors said after blowing through his own funds seeking promised profits Hayes stole tens of thousands from a local church then a local investor club and finally his daughter's college fund NBC News reported then when all those Wells dried up he started stealing Bank funds all in the false hopes that sending more and more money to the scammers would somehow unlock the supposed Returns on his crypto investments in total Haynes made 11 wire transfers using Bank funds between May 2023 and July 2023 but instead of getting rich quick Haynes never realized any profits at all the US attorney's office said he pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement by a bank officer after he single-handedly caused the collapse of Hartland Tri-State Bank htsb in Elkart Kansas the press release said literally the meme of the guy chipping away and he almost hits the diamonds and he turns around right before man in this case the law caught up to him he's like they're dragging him away and he's like no the diamonds they're right there they're right there please but like I love it's just like some random person messages you on WhatsApp yeah it's like hey if you send me send me one Bitcoin I'll get you two Bitcoins in return like well I mean obviously I'm the CEO of a bank so no no scammer would try to get one past me this one must be legit yeah let's do it all right here's your Bitcoin where's the Bitcoin at oh oh they need more well okay he's a little bit more in his head he's like H I may be stressed now but when I single-handedly save this bank make it the wealthiest Bank in Kansas and send my daughter then you know everyone's going to be they're going to have parades for me for being so Savvy but that article continues according to NBC News hes missed at least one opportunity to realize that he was being scammed after he asked for a $12 million loan from a neighbor Brian Mitchell his neighbor detected the scam and refused to lend the money I said you're in a scam walk away Mitchell told NBC news but Haynes didn't walk away going the other direction he directed Bank employees to wire Millions more to scammers after he got the warning from Mitchell it wasn't until Mitchell heard from a bank employee that hannes had wired money out of the bank that Mitchell insisted on speaking to the bank's board Days Later Haynes was fired NBC News reported but even then Haynes never believed he was being scammed reportedly telling Mitchell that he was still scheming to find a way to recover his make-believe profits right up to the moment he was arrested he said if I just had another two months I could get the money back Mitchell told NBC news that is some that is some Gambler [ __ ] and uh yeah yeah this is the most extreme example of someone being pot committed on a obviously losing bet that I think we've ever seen yeah uh based on NBC's reporting it sounds like the whole debacle started with sending like tens of thousands of dollars of his own money to the scammers which yeah it would suck to lose that much of your own money but uh instead of being like Oh well I gave all this money to these scammers these sorry these investors and they didn't get me back uh he just went ahead and used his prestige in the community and in the banking world to Rob his own business and pretty much everyone around him including his own daughter thinking that if he handed over just a little bit more money well then they're going to pay him out on his investment and he'd not only be super rich he'd be able to pay everyone else back with interest they're not going to be mad when I tell them what what I did so yeah I mean it really goes to show that the only difference between a dumb guy and a dumb guy with access to a shitload of money is how much a scammer can get out of him it's just it's a another great example of being po committed also a great example of just unchecked greed this guy has had a good SS like he had a pretty good life good enough life to have tens of thousands of dollars in the bank and have a college fund for his daughter and be the president of a local bank and he that wasn't enough yeah he had to be so far beyond that yeah I know that's it's it's pure greed he was doing American Greed um that will probably be an episode of American Greed actually I hope so cuz yeah this story like the NBC news article definitely goes into into more detail than the Arts technical one that we quoted from but there's still like just so many questions I have like about just the step-by-step process of how this all went down is Absolut uh absolutely a mental deficiency I guess you would say once you start losing that much money yeah that you something switches you are not you are a desperate desperate person who will believe anything to fix the problem that they have created in their life yeah yeah like desperate people do really desperate [ __ ] I'm gonna get that money back and he was like maybe four inches away from the diamonds he was chipping away with that pickaxe if I stop now all of my gains yeah so but it's just like how do you get I've sent them $47 million but uh still don't have access to my winnings so maybe a couple million more it was just three million more and I would have gotten the Platinum package I would have gotten a piece of Donald Trump suit would have gotten seven free nfts and a really cool pair of gold sneakers they should have sent him an NFC this is actually worth $50 million so hold on to that buddy put that in the bank vault anyway yeah I hope to see more about this story because that is that is fascinating and uh yeah I guess yeah no one no one is immune from this kind of greed it feel just terrible for everyone else I mean obviously the towns folk I'm sure that the people I'm sure the people that had their money in the bank will be covered by like FDIC Insurance not as like when FDIC comes in they don't just immediately reimburse everyone it takes a long time and a lot of these people are like that's their retirement money so they don't have all the time in the world yeah um but yes also just yeah sucks for the whole town especially the daughter yeah woof yeah that's a hell of a story when you're at Community College next year hey nothing wrong with Community College folks absolutely you should go if nothing else you should do your first two years there and then use that and stay inate makes way more sense to Upstream yourself to a university I've lose so much [ __ ] money on College don't don't be me don't be like him be like me go to Community College yeah anyways that's it for the today's episode we of course have uh you should definitely go watch if you haven't seen it already the RFK whale story because it's a whale of a tale and you need to watch it it's great uh also if you haven't seen the trumpy trout video what are you waiting for it's maybe the funniest product that I've seen in years okay now that I've talked about those even though they're not up there yet like the video click the like button right now I'm watching you it takes two seconds even on your phone yeah I know you're reading the comments One Tap you tap it just one tap everything's great 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