Carrick Ryan On Trump

This past June 23, Carrick Ryan, a former federal agent turned blogger -- and not to be confused with Irish comedian Ryan Carrick -- wrote this on Facebook:

I must admit, there's a part of Trump that's kind of impressive.

He convinced the party of Reagan to advocate for tariffs and market intervention.

He convinced the party of law and order to celebrate the first convicted felon President, and the pardoning of violent insurrectionists.

He convinced the party of family values that it didn't matter if he cheated on his pregnant wife with a pornstar.

He convinced millions of women to vote for him even when they've heard him brag about sexually assaulting them.

He's convinced Epstein conspiracy theorists to somehow accuse anybody but him, despite mounting circumstantial evidence of his complicity.

He's convinced evangelical Christians to vote in the least religious President in U.S. history.

And now, he's convinced isolationists, who called Obama a "neocon" and cheered the "end of foreign wars," to now openly support yet another foreign war.

But he's not a salesman. A salesman actually gives you what he's selling. Trump is a con man, someone who promises big but never comes through with the goods.

What has Trump promised that he's actually delivered?

Did he build the wall? And did Mexico pay for it?

Did he "lock her up"?

Did he enact a "Muslim Ban"?

Did he repeal Obamacare?

Did he eliminate national debt? Or add to it?

Did he end the war in Ukraine or Gaza?

Did he decrease the cost of groceries?

Did he keep the U.S. out of foreign wars?

Did he make America great again? Or a global pariah?

I've done a lot of fraud investigations in my time, and there's almost always a devastating moment when someone realizes with horror they've been conned. But there's also always a few that just don't want to believe it... no matter how much evidence you show them. And the con man usually just continues to con them, until they've fleeced them of everything that they've got.

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So when do those he's fooled -- some once, some twice, some three times -- accept that they were fooled?

In two weeks?