Donald Trump and a poor soul who cannot be saved. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
John Lambert, the co-founder of “Students for Trump,” pleaded guilty yesterday to a $46,000 scam where he posed as a lawyer and gave legal advice.
From the New York Daily News:
John Lambert, 23, created a website for a fake law firm called Pope & Dunn and claimed to be Eric Pope, a graduate of NYU Law School with a finance degree from the University of Pennsylvania and 15 years of experience in corporate and patent law, prosecutors said…
“John Lambert represented himself to clients as a prominent New York attorney with a law degree from an elite law school. But Lambert’s de facto career was one of a grifter: he had never been to law school and certainly wasn’t an attorney. Today, Lambert admitted to his crimes and faces time in prison for his misdeeds,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said.
Lambert achieved notoriety during the presidential campaign for the group he founded with classmate classmate Ryan Fournier at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C., in 2015. They made frequent media appearances and ran a Students For Trump Twitter account featuring photos of bikini-clad women and pics of themselves at political events.
As Freddie Mercury says in Bohemian Rhapsody: “You know when you know you’ve gone rotten, really rotten? Fruit flies. Dirty little fruit flies, coming to feast on what’s left.” Trump attracts the very worst people this society has to offer. And those people feed on the very dumb people who like Trump.
Predictably, “Students for Trump” has distanced itself from Lambert. But, just as predictably, the fact that the whole thing started as a scam has not dissuaded them. The Daily News reports that Students for Trump has been acquired by Turning Point Action. Because dupes are always useful to the right-wing movement in this country.
Students for Trump founder pleads guilty to posing as lawyer in $46K scam [New York Daily News]
Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and a contributor at The Nation. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at elie@abovethelaw.com. He will resist.