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Internet Fraud, Trump

President Trump, We Need Your Help

Here’s an idea to do something to help Americans

John Dean
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3 min readMar 9, 2025

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I did not vote for Donald Trump or Elon Musk, but if I had, it would not have been to support dismantling the Federal Government. But what if Trump had promised to end the unpaid traffic toll scam now spreading across America on Day One of his second term (or, even better, before taking the Oath of Office), I may have thought about voting for him. (Probably not, but I hate getting fraud texts on my iPhone).

Switching sides in the Ukraine War, inflicting retribution on dozens of career prosecutors, alienating Canada and Mexico, and firing hundreds of thousands of federal employees are all higher priorities for Trump 2.0. Why hasn’t Trump issued at least one Executive Order to combat fake traffic toll text messages?

As I consider why Trump is ignoring fake traffic toll notices, I wonder if he might be part of the scam. Is Trump Media and Technology involved? There is no evidence of this, but Trump issuing his own cryptocurrency while also creating a national crypto reserve also seemed implausible—until it happened.

Here is one of the texts I have received since January 20, 2025, which was supposed to be the start of “America’s Golden Age.” This one appears to reference…

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