Einstein They’re Not: City’s Officials Conned Into Signing Agreement With Fake Country

By Selwyn Duke

As in the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, in which a con man poses as a fake prince hailing from a presumably fake country, it’s the stuff of movies:

City officials in Newark, New Jersey, got scammed into signing a sister-city agreement with a country that doesn’t exist by a self-proclaimed “god-man” who’s on the run from the law.

The fellow who oversaw this stroke of genius is Newark mayor Ras Baraka, the “son of the infamous anti-Semitic playwright and poet Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones),” informs American Thinker’s Thomas Lifson. He also has...ahem...a Master of Arts degree in “Education Supervision.”

But Baraka didn’t demonstrate much education or proper supervision in the embarrassing incident in question.

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[Robert Berger]

So ? Between 2016 and 2020 , Donald Trump conned millions of gullible Americans into voting for him for president , even though he had zero qualifications for the most difficult job in world history , no record of public service , no experience in politics , was nothing but a large scale con man and grifter , had never had a single successful business , opened up a bogus "Trump University " , lied about being a billionaire even though he has never been that wealthy , is a shameless serial adulterer who boasts of cheating on his wives , is a notorious womanizer and sexual predator , lost a staggering amount of money as a businessman through his incompetence, stupidity and recklessness , lied about being a devout Christian in order to win support and votes from conservative Christians and. prominent religious leaders , claimed to be "pro-life" even though he has paid his mistresses to have abortions in the past , is very poorly educated , can barely read and never reads books , knows nothing about economics, US and world. history , foreign policy and foreign affairs , has dementia and babbles idiotically and incoherently , is a. malignant narcissistic sociopath and a pathological liar , was the most corrupt and incompetent president in US history and. mad. made himself the laughing stock of the world with his grotesquely boorish speech and behavior , his utter lack of dignity , tact and discretion and so on .
Trump. is the greatest con man in US history .