Former State GOP Chair Accused of Stealing $280,000 From Pro Trump Super PAC

A former state Chairman of the Colorado Republican Party has been accused stealing $280,000 from a pro-Trump PAC. The former chair, Ryan Call, served as treasurer of the PAC for three years, and that is when the alleged theft took place. While official charges have not yet been filed, this is just another instance of a corrupted political insider trying to get a larger piece of the pie. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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A man by the name of, Ryan Call, who served two terms as the state chairman of the Colorado Republican party has now been accused of embezzling roughly $280,000 from a pro Trump political action committee, where he served as the treasurer for three years, $280,000 from this pro-Trump group that he was a part of for three years. That's a hell of a lot of money, man. This story, by the way, the reason I'm even talking about this, not that it has national importance here or that we want to mock poor Mr. Ryan Call here, but no, the point is, this is what's happening here in the United States today. This is what this unlimited flood of political money does. It does it with the super PACs. It does it with the candidates because we've also seen, by the way, Alex Mooney, Republican Congressman from West Virginia is now under investigation for possible misuse of campaign funds.

He's Republican, if I didn't mention that already. Yeah. You know, Duncan Hunter, a couple years ago doing the same thing. And that's what happens when you have all of this money, hundreds of thousands of dollars every couple months flowing in and out, going all of these places with very little oversight, you know, every opportunity the courts have had, they have struck down, you know, any kind of clamping down on the, on the unlimited political money. So of course, it's going to attract people who may think, you know what, nobody's paying attention. Nobody's really watching what's going on. What if I, uh, let me just slip a couple here. I'm just going to put this in my pocket. Uh, yeah, I mean, that's what it does though.

When you have people who may already be a little, a little loose on the whole morals thing and you leave them unattended with hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they're convinced nobody's looking over their shoulders, things like this are bound to happen. And I'm not saying that people are inherently untrustworthy or are all thieves, but I gotta tell you within the Republican party, man, we're starting to see a lot more of this creep up every, you know, couple months here. Because again, Mr. Call's not the first one. Hell, Mr. Call's not even the first Republican this month to get, you know, get himself slapped on the wrist and face an investigation for potentially misusing campaign funds or stealing money or embezzling or whatever it is. This is kind of what Republicans have become now. Not saying the Democrats are perfect, but if you look back at all the stories covering this over the last few years, it's pretty much a Republican thing now.