Great Grifters in American History

Alas, Noon seems to be confining his online content to the Twitter dot com website, but don’t miss this classic thread about prolific evangelical grifter Oral Roberts:

Goals met, Roberts lived. His medical program, however, sank like a poorly-built ark. Within a year, Roberts announced the closure of his City of Faith Medical Center in Tulsa; by early 1989, Roberts had terminated his university's free medical tuition and scholarship programs.

— David Noon (@davenoon1970) January 4, 2019

I wonder how Donald Trump was able to become the presidential nominee of the Republican Party.