🧩 BND Motif Index · M765
The grift
A leader sells his followers a scheme, coins, dinners, merchandise, that makes him rich while they lose their money.
📜 Plots🗂️ Money and power🗂️ Corruption
- 4claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 3claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 The family business
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-15 “A man is a dishonest con artist who lies and exploits people for money.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-10 “Trump will put the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan on pay-per-view or a Trump media platform so he and his family can cash in.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-09 “Donald Trump's crypto assets have caused investors to suffer billions of dollars in losses.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show - 2026-10-09 “Posters predict the livestreamed military execution will be sold as pay-per-view, since 'they monetize everything.'” 🧶 people online
M765 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-22 · what this is · how the index works