Lawrence O’Donnell Exposes Trump’s Faux Tesla Buy

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Donald Trump purchased a Tesla, or that’s what lazy headline after lazy headline within the mainstream media advised the American individuals. It was as if the mainstream press was too afraid to look under the hood or name out a con that has an extended custom in American historical past.

The time period snake oil salesman goes again to the 19 Century and was used to explain an individual who gross sales fraudulent or ineffective merchandise. The snake oil salesman would typically have a plant who would act as a keen buyer, somebody who was in on the con to assist spur gross sales alongside.

Donald Trump was Elon Musk’s plant at this time because the snake oil Musk tried to hawk was the inflation of his firm’s inventory worth.

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MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell wasn’t shopping for the con and stated:

 Donald Trump stood with Elon Musk within the White Home driveway with some Teslas in entrance of them. And Donald Trump pretended to purchase a Tesla. It has been reported by official information organizations in every single place that Donald Trump purchased a Tesla from Elon Musk at this time, as if that is a reality, there isn’t a proof of that.

In any way. No invoice of sale. No test was handed. Nothing was signed. The 2 most awkward individuals in America stood there like statues making an attempt to avoid wasting Elon Musk’s wealth with the utterly faux stunt of Donald Trump pretending to purchase a automotive from the richest individual on the planet with no cash or paperwork altering palms.