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President Donald Trump has sought to demonize immigrants \u2014 particularly people who aren\u2019t white \u2014 by calling many of them crooks.<\/p>\n

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But when it comes to deceitfulness, a new report from ProPublica suggests that may<\/em> actually describe the MAGA influencer Trump tapped as his \u201cspecial presidential envoy for American tourism, exceptionalism and values.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Nick Adams, the self-described \u201calpha male\u201d and naturalized citizen from Australia who has fashioned himself into a cringeworthy caricature of MAGA masculinity.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Adams launched the Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness, an organization supposedly intent on teaching civics, in 2016. The important context here is that Trump and MAGA world have condemned historically accurate teachings about things like racial inequality and touted the need to teach civics instead \u2014 as if it\u2019s impossible to do both.<\/p>\n

And despite being boosted by Trump and other MAGA figures, FLAG doesn\u2019t seem to have thus far done the work it has promised.\u00a0Per ProPublica:<\/p>\n

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There is little evidence that the nonprofit has provided the civics education it claims. And Adams and his nonprofit have engaged in a pattern of questionable financial arrangements, including paying Adams and his mother more than half its recent annual revenue, while raising much of its money through a sweepstakes operation that has promised donors a chance to win $1,000,000 \u2014 a prize FLAG\u2019s records show no evidence of ever paying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

ProPublica said Adams didn\u2019t respond to its list of questions and that the White House declined to comment.<\/p>\n

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The outlet noted that FLAG is part of the Education Department\u2019s America 250 Civics Education Coalition, which includes more than 40 conservative groups. In other words, a nonprofit that\u2019s under scrutiny for possibly deceiving donors was involved in the federal government\u2019s taxpayer-funded 250th anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n

ProPublica also reported:<\/p>\n

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Since 2016, as FLAG\u2019s annual revenues grew from $68,000 to $1.1 million in 2024, there is almost no indication in the organization\u2019s annual federal tax filings that it was spending money on its stated mission. No line item in FLAG\u2019s federal tax filing identifies a payment to a school, a teacher or an educational distributor. Only two lines, in a 2017 federal filing, indicate $26,925 for \u201cStudent\u2019s Constitutions, Printing\u201d and $5,670 for \u201cBook Donations, Shipping & Supplies.\u201d In the last six years, while FLAG operated under Adams, the only documented instance of FLAG activity that appears to fit the definition of \u201ceducational\u201d is a 2020 video showing Adams speaking at what is described as a teachers\u2019 conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s noteworthy here that Trump\u2019s administration has brought bogus charges against the anti-racist Southern Poverty Law Center over baseless claims that the group deceived its donors.<\/p>\n

I urge you to remember all of this the next time Trump, Vice President JD Vance or other Republicans spew vile racism about fraud and deception among immigrant communities \u2014 or, as Rep. James Comer of Kentucky put it in June, \u201cin the minority communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a mystery why anyone would take conservatives seriously on such matters when the Republican president himself has a history of fraudulence (to a criminal degree, at that) and has pardoned numerous convicted fraudsters \u2014 and his tourism envoy is Nick Adams.<\/p>\n

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ProPublica reported that self-described \u201calpha male\u201d Nick Adams\u2019 charity has sold donors on teaching civics, but doesn\u2019t appear to have done much work on that front. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us"],"yoast_head":"\nTrump\u2019s tourism envoy reportedly got heaps of cash from his civics-based nonprofit - Long Distance Movers USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/longdistancemoversusas.com\/?p=531\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s tourism envoy reportedly got heaps of cash from his civics-based nonprofit - 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