Guo and his companies also paid or employed other prominent MAGA figures, including Trump adviser Jason Miller, Rudy Giuliani, former White House aide Peter Navarro, Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, Turning Point USA chief Charlie Kirk, and Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt. Guo supporters are surely hoping those relationships, should Trump return to the White House next year, could help Guo secure a pardon or commutation.

All grifters, all at the top of the party, all fleecing supporters who don’t bother to investigate the people telling them what to think.

“If anyone loses money, please come to me,” Guo said in a video played repeatedly during the trial. “I will be responsible.” That was not true.

If anybody ever guarantees an investment by telling you they’ll promise to pay you back if it doesn’t work out, they’re almost certainly lying - when it comes to money, if it isn’t in a contract, it ain’t happening