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Trump Busted Getting a Boost From Dead People
The Daily Beast • • business
Key Points:
- An investigation revealed that over 12,000 comments supporting a Trump-backed Department of Labor plan to expand retirement investments into private equity and crypto were likely fabricated, including submissions from deceased individuals.
- The comments, which lacked personal details and showed minimal variation, followed five nearly identical templates and were submitted in daily batches between April 29 and May 5.
- Families of deceased individuals, such as Danna Oderman and Lyngrid Rawlings, expressed distress over their loved ones' names being misused to support the plan, which they never endorsed.
- The scheme also involved using names of living individuals, like retired professor Karl Giberson, who denied supporting the measure.
- The discovery casts doubt on the grassroots support for the proposal, which private equity firms have promoted to access a larger share of 401(k) investments, while Trump himself has previously alleged fraudulent voting by deceased people in elections.
