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edbermac

(15,919 posts)
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 11:16 PM Aug 2019

Jacob AssWohl up to his old tricks.

Far-right troll Jacob Wohl scammed a Trump fan out of $25,000 (updated)
‘We got cheated by some 20-year-old kid.’

Jacob Wohl scarcely goes a month without being implicated in a scam. And his latest is a doozy.

Two men say that his latest target was the Telugu Association of North America (TANA), an Indo-American organization that works on behalf of the North American Telugu community, an Indian ethnic group.

Entrepreneur Deelip Mhaske told the Daily Dot that Wohl promised to get President Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. to speak at TANA’s biennial conference. The conference consistently attracts thousands and has featured high-profile people such as former President Bill Clinton, who spoke at the 2007 event.

For this year’s event, which 18,000 were set to attend, Mhaske set his sights on getting the Trumps there. An early Trump supporter himself, Mhaske hoped to foster a dialogue about immigration reform between the president and the tech millionaires and billionaires of TANA who rely on Indian immigrants for staffing.

“This is such a hot topic nowadays that everybody wants to contribute,” said Mhaske, who is from India.

Several weeks before the conference, he reached out to the 2020 reelection campaign, which he says told him that the president would attend if they could raise $3 million for Trump’s reelection. (Mhaske’s point of contact with the campaign did not respond to requests for confirmation sent via Facebook messenger or a White House email address Wednesday afternoon.)

Mhaske raised several hundred thousand dollars, certainly no small feat, but nowhere near enough money to secure the president’s attendance. With time running out for the July 4-6, 2019 event, he reached out Shane Bouvet, whom he’d become friends with on Facebook.

Bouvet formerly was a social media coordinator for the Trump campaign. His profile and header pictures on Facebook feature him with the president at an event and in the Oval Office, respectively. “I thought he must know somebody who can do it directly,” Mhaske said.

Bouvet quickly got him on a conference call with someone he thought would be able to help: Jacob Wohl.

Bouvet told the Dot he knew of Jacob Wohl through his father David Wohl. He also apparently knew Jacob Wohl’s reputation on Twitter before he was banned earlier this year. In December 2018, Bouvet chatted with him about it during a now-deleted Facebook Livestream.

“I always had [Jacob] in my phone as somebody who knows somebody,” Bouvet said. “Last year he said he was really good friends with the Trumps.”

Wohl, Mhaske said, was happy to help. He’d personally never heard of the 21-year-old, but says that Wohl talked a great game, dropping the right names and claiming that he’d also get Charlie Kirk to attend. (Kirk did not respond to a request for comment.) Wohl also bragged that he “was going to Ukraine to pull some stuff on Joe Biden.”

“He was really convincing,” Mhaske said.

For his services, Wohl asked for $100,000, half up front, half upon performance. Mhaske agreed.

The three-day event at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. was just a day away, but Wohl was confident.

“He said, ‘Oh no worries, I know Don Jr. I’m calling him. I’m calling right now to the scheduler, the president’s scheduler, and Don Jr. … but first you gotta wire money,’” Mhaske said.

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wohl-scam-trump-event/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

And you all can guess what happened...or didn’t happen.

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Takket

(21,425 posts)
2. "Wohl promised to get President Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. to speak at TANA's conference"
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 11:30 PM
Aug 2019

...............and you............... believed him

Wohl is a scumbag of the highest order who should be in prison........ but i can't shed any tears for a MAGAt who looks at how Wohl lives his life and thinks "there is someone can trust and that i want to associate with".

DangerousRhythm

(2,916 posts)
3. WTF is this about?
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 11:40 PM
Aug 2019

“Wohl also bragged that he ‘was going to Ukraine to pull some stuff on Joe Biden.’”

🙄

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
5. We've got way more evidence than we need to put a lot of people in jail
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 12:08 AM
Aug 2019

and impeach the rest. Can we do it NOW?

A HERETIC I AM

(24,321 posts)
6. The fact that this little shit hasn't had his ass kicked from one end to the other.....
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 01:39 AM
Aug 2019


is a testament to the restraint of rational people everywhere.
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