As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.
I think his sorry ass should be arrested for possession of counterfeit money and his assets divided up among the people he has pulled this shit against. Fucking asshole!!!
If he has publicly said that he passed counterfeit money to others, he should be arrested... but no doubt SCOTUS would rule that he did so in his official, political capacity and is therefore immune.
He's likely using prop money, if at all, which anyone can buy, and often what you'll see in some youtube/tiktok video where the person is waving around "fat stacks".
It will say clearly that it's not legal tender, but is a desperate and grateful person going to notice? Probably not until too late.
Yeah, I'd agree.
In all likelihood it's illegal, but he's not going to get the Treasury Department jumping up and down on his skull like if he was using actual counterfeit bills.
(someone should still jump on his skull)
How so? In the screenshot posted here it looks like he's explaining what he's doing. If he states anywhere in the video(I'm not watching it) that he wants people to believe the money is real, isn't that outspoken intent to defraud?
i think this still pretty clearly shows intent to defraud, which in most cases means either intent to cheat or intent to deceive. justice should look into him
There ARE laws about that, which means if you get stuck with a counterfeit bill, you're out the money.
Unless you put them back in your wallet when a cashier points out they're fake (and wow, they were really bad fakes) and forget to discard them and accidentally spend them later.
He's making them, or someone's making them for him.
If he's photocopying bills he may not rrealize people can tell. I'd like to see the other part of this story; has anyone been arrestd for passing his fake bills?
"I'm just here playing a game pretending that these heavy-duty nuts and bolts are quarters. These rocks? Those are commemorative dollar coins. It's just a game, all in good fun!"