| 单词 | grifter |
| 例句 | Chaos had followed the fall of the South, just as war-ravaged societies always attract thieves and grifters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Low Key, who was a grifter from Minnesota, smiled his scarred smile. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I hated that anyone would think Martin was a grifter—especially people with big hearts. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Scammers, grifters and con artists are always in season. 7 Podcasts About the Art of the Scam 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Wait for the moment when the jury reconvenes for one last time, like retired grifters meeting up for a final job, to render a private verdict with profound moral repercussions. Need a Distraction? These Thrillers Will Have You on the Edge of Your Seat 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z But rarely do grifters act alone, or purely in self-interest. Bunkmates Turned Scam Artists Take Silicon Valley for a Ride 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Luckily, our army of masterminds, hackers, hitters, grifters and thieves fully mobilised and Leverage became the first cancelled programme to win a People's Choice award – favourite cable TV drama. Gina Bellman on Leverage: 'Fandom is a world with no prejudice' 2013-02-02T17:00:00Z At first glance, “Kajillionaire” seems more of the same as we watch the Dyne family, three low-rent grifters in Los Angeles, ply their trade. ‘Kajillionaire’ Review: California Scheming 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z We are held rapt by tales of big-time millennial grifters, entrepreneurs whose dizzy rises are rivaled only by their disastrous ends. Our Never-Ending ‘Scam Season’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z By the 1990s, he’d fallen in with grifters and companies whose business models percolated between accidental and overt fraud. Review | ‘True Believer’ tries to capture Stan Lee. It isn’t easy. 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z This year, the last week in May marked the beginning of grifter season: the wind changed, the pressure dropped, and the scent of scamming was suddenly everywhere in the air. The Fiends and the Folk Heroes of Grifter Season 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z He is hired to be the bodyguard of an old grifter named Mr. Wednesday, the disguise of the Norse god Odin. 'American Gods' reflects real world issues in modern mythology saga 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z They were defeated, captured, bound and imprisoned in Tartarus by the gods we all learned about in grade school: Zeus and his rapacious clan of divine grifters. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z The terms grifter and scam have their beginnings in the carnival circuit of the early 20th century, and scam is the root of the term scamp — as in, lovable rogue. Our Never-Ending ‘Scam Season’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z For though this Erie still remembers the oleaginous, Damon Runyonesque patter of the small-time grifter he is, he can no longer deliver it with his customary all-American cheer and assurance. Review: In ‘Hughie,’ With Forest Whitaker, Two Desolate Lost Souls 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Christian Bale gained 50 pounds to play a 1970s grifter in “American Hustle.” The Carpetbagger: For This Audition, Acting Not Required 2013-12-10T15:40:42Z Parker was Presley’s manager for most of his career, and Hanks portrays him as part small-time grifter, part full-blown Mephistopheles. ‘Elvis’ Review: Shocking the King Back to Life 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z As Foley, the weary grifter at the heart of the Canadian import "The Samaritan," Samuel L. Jackson can't catch a break. 'The Samaritan': Cons of this grim caper outweigh the pros 2012-05-31T20:15:06Z When Ethel is lured away by promises of stardom, Duke bombs out of show business and begins peddling a cure-all elixir for a grifter. Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Cleese's stance has caught the attention of none other than Piers Morgan, the conservative social media grifter and British broadcaster best known for harassing Meghan Markle after she shared her former struggles with suicidal ideation. John Cleese backs out of Cambridge appearance over “woke rules,” is praised by Piers Morgan 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Who conceived Diet Coke Plus, the grifter soda that purported to be rich with vitamins and minerals? The Decline and Fall of Diet Coke and the Power Generation That Loved It 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z He has the smarm but not the charm of a compulsive grifter, even a hapless one. ‘The Nest’ Review: New Home, Old Wounds 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z When he claims the press made up some of the crazier findings about him, like the circumstances of his drag appearance when he was a younger and more natural-faced grifter, she doesn’t question it. Why Meghan McCain continues to flail 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z The public never gets tired of gawking over how grifters spend money unlawfully. Perspective | Why was Duncan Hunter’s wife better than him at creatively explaining that $250,000 in allegedly misused money? 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z In Kennedy’s informal sequel, the 1972 Support Your Local Gunfighter, Garner amiably inhabits one of the oldest Western plots, of a grifter mistaken for a famous gunfighter, and sells it like the Brooklyn Bridge. James Garner: Tribute to a Marvelous Maverick 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Set amid a plague in 17th-century France, this chilling novel features a mother who succumbs to witchcraft and a grifter with a gift for the tarot. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Reason is in short supply here, and grifters and con men peddling conspiracy thinking and fake news abound; families are often fragmented or nonexistent; and primal, Darwinian urges have replaced the rule of law. Denis Johnson’s Poetic Visions of a Fallen World 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Aping Mr. Russell’s devil-may-care high jinks, it takes for granted the grifter’s faith in the lawlessness, disorder and potential for larcenous self-invention in an easy-money society that allows brilliant sociopaths to fly high. | 'I Love You Phillip Morris': A Winning Smile Makes the Scamming a Breeze 2010-12-03T00:00:00Z This modern-day take on the Oedipus myth follows Seattle's evolution from sleepy seaport to software capital, as a modern "King of Search" meets his match in one of the most memorable grifters in contemporary literature. 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z The truth on the frozen ground is different, of course: grifters, perverts and punks slouching and grouching through life in a rules-bound nanny state. Television Review: Steven Van Zandt in Norwegian Netflix Series ?Lilyhammer? 2012-02-05T17:43:53Z All this represents a natural progression from our captivation with grifters, which has had audiences in its thrall since the hugest huckster of our time conned his way into the Oval Office in 2016. From "You" to "Barry," we're fascinated by audacious grifters: The man who deceives us and himself 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z It is the story of a pair of grifters who pretend to be a mother and son. Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Harold, you see, is a perfect sucker, an innocent whose trusting good nature makes him an easy target for grifters, scammers and liars. Review: The Caper-Comedy ‘Gringo’ Is Staler Than Yesterday’s Tortillas 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z As purported fraudsters, hustlers and scammers continue to captivate the collective consciousness, it may be a perfect time to revisit an infamous literary grifter — Tom Ripley. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Austin City Limits’ and ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z “I kinda like it when you forget to get me a present,” Miss Adelaide tells her commitment-phobic fiance, the small-time grifter Nathan Detroit, on their 14th anniversary. 'Guys and Dolls' at the Wallis: Pared down but still full of punch 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Like any good grifter, she looks down on anyone who falls for her shtick. Gillian Flynn isn’t writing “the next ‘Gone Girl'”: “I feel like I need a break from their voices in my head” 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z In contrast, Jhabvala’s stories about Westerners, many of them blank young women who fall prey to burning-eyed gurus or other spiritual grifters, tend to blur. The Unsentimental, Darkly Elegant Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z "The Samaritan": Samuel L. Jackson plays a grifter and ex-con in this new drama. Weekend Preview: Festivals in Edmonds and Beacon Hill 2012-05-30T21:42:08Z The grifter just stretches the concept a little further. Our Never-Ending ‘Scam Season’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z One amusing tale involved an encounter with a grifter named Tony Bennett who helped him paint his car, then stole $65 from him as they hugged farewell. Music Review | Todd Snider: A Bit Wry and Rough at the Edges 2010-03-08T06:37:00Z We have a wretched grifter in the Oval Office, who has utter contempt for the rule of law and it tries to manipulate the political process to his own ends, very much like Richard Nixon. MC5’s Wayne Kramer on why Trump is “very much so like Richard Nixon” 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Like other professional grifters, Laplante regularly hopscotched from one town to the next, clearing out whenever exposure threatened, sometimes changing his name. Review | The most shameless con artist of the Jazz Age knew that the biggest lies work best 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z This filled in a key piece of Jimmy’s back story, answering the question: Precisely what trouble led a colorful grifter to move to the Sunbelt for a job in a mail room? 'Better Call Saul' Season 1 Finale Recap: It's Never Stopping Me Again 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z They are the fictional forbears of Anna Delvey and every other libertine upper-class grifter one can conceive of. The enduring seduction of “Dangerous Liaisons” on stage, film and now TV 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z At one point, Jessica confronts her grifter father as he languishes in a coma: The Idealized, Introverted Wives of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fiction 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The book’s grifters, oddballs, protagonists and Tom Clancy-esque tech backdrop are capably and invitingly handled by the author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short.” ‘Flash Boys’: skimming fortunes on a rigged Wall Street 2014-04-04T20:58:57Z When “American Buffalo” first hit the stage, in Chicago in 1975, its portrait of lowlifes like Teach — two-bit grifters aping the realpolitik of American business — was a game changer. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z And the world is full of grifters, and the music business attracts grifters. Van Morrison: 'Singing is my profession – there is no plan B' 2012-10-01T13:58:00Z The town was transfixed; everyone, it seemed, wanted in on the unflappable grifter’s sordid saga. True Life: I Got Conned by Anna Delvey 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Steven is not a con man in the sense of a cool, rational grifter who knows exactly what he is doing and why. Film review: I Love You, Phillip Morris 2010-03-18T22:00:00Z Trump supporters called the founders grifters and “self-serving RINOS” — charges they called ridiculous in light of Trump’s fundraising. Analysis | Seven bleak takeaways from Showtime’s ‘The Lincoln Project’ miniseries 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Emma is a brat, a leech, a shameless climber, an aimless grifter, a pathological liar, a probable narcissistic sociopath, a fantasy figure of immoral self-indulgence, and a lot of fun at parties. “Sally4Ever” and “The Bisexual,” Reviewed: Women in Crisis, In and Out of the Bedroom 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z But a grifter's pull is eternal owing to their association with panache and cleverness. From "You" to "Barry," we're fascinated by audacious grifters: The man who deceives us and himself 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z The book dived deeply into the hierarchies and language among grifters and served as a source for the 1973 film “The Sting.” ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 6: Promises 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Rarely does she resemble the soulless grifter of the book. Amazon’s New “Vanity Fair” Turns Becky Sharp Into an Endearing, Plucky Go-Getter 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Daumier made dozens of clay caricature busts of some of the worst ghouls and grifters of his age, using these painted, unfired figures as the basis for masterful, widely circulated lithographs. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z As for Bannon, when Green first met him in 2011 he came across as a “political grifter seeking to profit from the latest trend.” How Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Rode the Honey Badger Into the White House 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Guidry is a cheerfully amoral grifter who treats women as disposable conveniences and casually betrays a friend to certain death for a momentary advantage. Review | John F. Kennedy’s assassination sets a thriller in motion in ‘November Road’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Timed for the 25th anniversary of “The Pugilist at Rest,” this posthumous collection brings together Jones’s most recent published work, peopled by his usual cast of American grifters and drifters. New & Noteworthy 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z What do you get when you toss together a brassy grifter, an Elvish-speaking anagrammist, a show choir and, oh yes, a teenager with a life-threatening genetic condition? Tony Predictions: Expect Wins for ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ and ‘Leopoldstadt’ 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z He makes an explosive appearance, tearing down an alley after the slick grifter played by Robert Redford, and repeatedly lurches out of the shadows throughout the rest of the film. Charles Durning obituary 2012-12-25T15:24:51Z The whole show takes place on the drag performance circuit, as Robert, played by Charles, evades the wrath of his grifter ex-boyfriend. RuPaul made his sitcom-starring debut with "AJ and the Queen," and we are not amused 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z But we also made hits out of grifter fables like "The Dropout," "Inventing Anna" and documentaries like "The Tinder Swindler." "Bullsh*t: The Game Show" and our love of liars and lying 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Some critics say that the relationship between the couple is portrayed as too loving but Scorsese never pretends to hide the motivations that drive a deadbeat, grifter like Ernest. “Killers of the Flower Moon’s” central love story illustrates the pitfalls of interracial dating 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Then the riots of the ’60s scarred Detroit more deeply than most cities, followed by an endless parade of self-proclaimed reformers turned municipal grifters who bled the city dry. ‘Low Winter Sun’ Gives Detroit a Leading Role 2013-08-02T12:00:19Z In Freeform's "The Watchful Eye," a grifter takes a position as a nanny for a rich family that resides in a grand old apartment building that may require an exorcism. Between "Ghosts" to "Not Dead Yet," it's starting to look like TV is having a season full of spirits 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z PRO It’s good on Southern atmosphere, and Ms. Dockery, free of her role as Lady Mary on “Downton Abbey,” is terrific as a cynical, hard-pressed American grifter. Five Long TV Cons Worth a Short Binge 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z She also has a touch of the grifter, up to a point. ‘Better Call Saul’ Is Great TV. Well, Part of It Is. 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z There are two playful outsiders, lighthearted grifters, who are unknown to each other. Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Trading Places stars Eddie Murphy as a poor, black grifter who is given a snooty, rich white man’s house. Drama-free Thanksgiving: alternative movie marathons for every taste 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The focus in question isn’t that of the perpetrator but of the sucker, who is lured in by the grifter’s seductive distraction. The Weird Problem with “Focus” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z His character, a veteran grifter named Nicky, is a smooth and confident operator, but with a Bogartian undertow of weary melancholy. Review: In ‘Focus,’ a Grifter (Will Smith) as Life Coach 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z “But everyone here sits somewhere on the grifter spectrum.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z His fiction, largely set in his hometown of Chicago, blends grit and sensitivity to portray the grifters and the scammers, the addicts and the down-and-outers, whose humanity we often overlook. Nelson Algren: Unappreciated genius of American literature 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z When you're famous, then you automatically become what they call a "mark", a target for grifters. Van Morrison: 'Singing is my profession – there is no plan B' 2012-10-01T13:58:00Z To work the streets as grifters, shoplifters and pickpockets, the five members of this family must be extraordinarily observant and disciplined. Review | Ishmael Beah’s memoir revealed the realities of child soldiers. His fiction shows the humanity of homeless kids. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z On his journey home to bury her, he meets Mr. Wednesday, once known as the powerful Norse god Odin, but now a grifter hustling on the strength of his charm. 'American Gods' reflects country's immigrant past and present 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z “Harlem Shuffle” is largely the story of piling up more and more weight against that precarious wall that Carney imagines separates him from the city’s grifters and thieves. Review | With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Shteir shares, on a certain level, Kerouac’s abiding fondness for grifters and scammers and bandits, at least those of the stylish and relatively harmless kind. Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z With two episodes left in the series, it is tough to picture Odenkirk's lonesome grifter turning over a new leaf or emerging without a dent. "Better Call Saul" connects with the inevitability of Gene breaking bad 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z There have been so many other grifters and impostors to keep track of in the intervening years. ‘My Old School’ Review: An Impostor Makes the Honor Roll 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z “He was a grifter who clung on like a parasite, like a barnacle on a ship.” Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston! 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Sunset Baby,” a contemporary play about a father jailed for activities in the black power movement and his grifter daughter, was produced by the Labyrinth Theater Company in 2013. Playwright Dominique Morisseau Can’t Forget the Motor City 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z A grifter blows into town and another buys the film rights. Art Gallery Shows to See in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z This is Leonard writing about splashy 1970s Detroit, full of big cars, bloated egos and its share – at least in fiction – of grifters and criminals. An exclusive lost scene from Elmore Leonard's 'Swag' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z In the book’s first paragraph, Maurer recognizes the con man as the “aristocrat” of grifters: he must use the full extent of his talent and ingenuity, and he plays for extremely high stakes. Anne Hathaway Wins “Ocean’s 8” 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The moment is right for a new wave of entrepreneurs, ideologues, grifters and rabble-rousers to take over the empty spaces and try new things. New York, It’s Time to Shop! (Masks on, Please) 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z It’s about a family cobbled together by liars, cons, grifters, impersonators, and protagonists whose family loyalty and personal integrity is matched—and sometimes beaten to a pulp—by their extreme flexibility with the truth. Inspiration Information: Lucky Us 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Having left behind a life of privilege, Suttree spends his days fishing, trawling Knoxville’s seedy underbelly and mingling with drunks, grifters and misfits. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z After ripping down Parcells’ “tricked-out death hutch”, which the host also called a “grifters’ back-alley autopsy shanty”, Oliver then pivoted to a possible solution of the problem. John Oliver: 'A death certificate isn’t like a degree from USC. It means something' 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Was it a splendidly flashy romp through the life of a genial grifter, or a wasted opportunity to get under the skin of a persona infinitely more complex than that depicted on film? You review: I Love You Phillip Morris 2010-03-22T13:14:00Z The rest are comically arch, like “American Hustle,” about grifters trying to get by, or “Inside Llewyn Davis,” about a folk singer who just can’t win. The Carpetbagger: What to Look for in the Golden Globe Nominations 2013-12-12T11:00:24Z The war was rife with charlatans, grifters and opportunists. Huntington Library sets out to decode thousands of Civil War telegrams hidden for a century: 'It's mind-boggling' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z All of this points to a looming companion animal crisis, with grifters and high-volume breeders — cue the impending moral panic over "puppy mills" — stepping up to fill the void. The changing face of “America’s dog” — and what it says about us 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z In The Wire, no one got the better of Stringer Bell until he came up against state senate grifter Clay Davis and his magical money faucet. El Chapo: Netflix's gruesome, gripping answer to The Wire 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z He took special pride in the technical skills these working-class gun dealers, loan sharks, bookies, thieves, grifters and mob enforcers brought to their trade. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z Trump is a lifelong con artist and this is how grifters manipulate their victims, by preying on their less-than-honorable traits. Jenna Ellis and Michael Cohen: The struggle is real, when Trump co-conspirators are also his victims 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z But Cornwell also knows what being a grifter’s son gave him, quoting Graham Greene’s observation that childhood is any author’s “credit balance.” Review: 'The Pigeon Tunnel' is spy versus spy, as clever documentarian meets cagey novelist 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z “There remain many grifters out there who remain free to continue propagating the ‘great lie’ that Trump won the election, Donald Trump being among the most prominent,” Boyle wrote. Man who attacked Capitol with tomahawk and now promotes Jan. 6 merchandise gets 7 years in prison 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Kemp denounced the call as “some grifter scam” to raise campaign contributions for Moore, in a news conference that was unusually impassioned for the buttoned-up Kemp. Georgia Republicans suspend state senator who wants to impeach DA for indicting Trump 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z That Donald Trump, a lifelong narcissistic sociopath and psychopath, a grifter and serial liar, would threaten judges, prosecutors and all his political opponents with violence and retribution, is no surprise. How Trump weaponizes his own fears 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z “Elizabeth Warren actually called me a freeloading grifter who doesn’t pay taxes, when I’m literally paying the most tax of any individual in history,” he says. What drove Elon Musk — onetime Democratic 'fanboy' — to troll progressive politics 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Racist memes depicting First Nations Australians as "grifters", "wife beaters" and "primitives" flash across his phone. Voice referendum: Lies fuel racism ahead of Australia's Indigenous vote 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z We are led by aging and frail men and women who should step aside, or by grifters who con their constituents because they don't know or don't care about anything better. How did we get here? The dumbing of America, from Reagan to Trump and beyond 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z It's been over two years since the coup, and while Lindell's fellow conspirators are facing the prospect of jail, he's mostly coasting along, still hyping the Big Lie and still being exploited by grifters. Requiem for Mike Lindell: He wasn't important enough to get his own indictment 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z The grifters that make up the troll-industrial complex are not okay. "They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z This month’s crop includes books about dynamic ghosts, a privileged woman reckoning with the environment, an under-appreciated tennis great and a jolly grifter’s comeuppance. 10 books to add to your reading list in August 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z The documents said Farage was “seen as xenophobic and racist” and “considered by many to be a disingenuous grifter.” NatWest Bank CEO ousted after furor over politician Nigel Farage’s bank account 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z How do you respond to the claim, which is absurd, that you are some type of "grifter" who is speaking out against Trump for the money? Mile Taylor on why his "Anonymous" plan failed against Donald Trump 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z The alleged bank documents said Farage was “seen as xenophobic and racist” and “considered by many to be a disingenuous grifter.” UK banking boss apologizes to populist politician Farage over the closure of his account 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Perry retorted, “They’re grifters, like you are, sir,” eliciting gasps from both sides of the aisle. Republicans Assail Kerry’s Climate Strategy as He Prepares for China Talks 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus Scott Perry referred to Mr. Kerry as a “grifter” while questioning the science behind human-caused climate change. John Kerry brawls with GOP over China’s broken climate pledges, private jet use, office secrecy 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Even the editorially conservative National Review has acknowledged "the right's grifter problem." Trump lawyer linked to scam websites 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z I always laugh when the grifter label is leveled at me. Mile Taylor on why his "Anonymous" plan failed against Donald Trump 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z A 2021 profile from Los Angeles Magazine painted him as a grifter who used rich people to gain influence in political circles. Journalist Yashar Ali must pay over $230,000 to oil heiress 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Longtime observers of the right will note that they view each other with total contempt, which is why the GOP is stuffed full of grifters and con artists who are always hustling their fellow travelers. Fake "liberal" Twitter account exposed: We should worry less about AI, more about human stupidity 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Yet they are often, in practice, easy marks for grifters and con men. Biden vs. the Bad News Bros | Paul Krugman 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z “The point is that we’re only going to incentivize these grifters.” Battle over Wisconsin’s top elections official could have ripple effects for 2024 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z But, as the verdict in the Carroll trial showed, his usual grifter tactics tend to fall apart in a courtroom setting. For the GOP frontrunner, Trump seems awfully low energy lately 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z He's a grifter with no soul, a black spot on America's lungs that only metastasizes further each time he draws breath. Hunter Biden and Donald Trump: Not remotely equivalent — but still a problem for Joe Biden 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Most political grifters, such as Donald Trump, know well enough to launder the ill-gotten money through PACs and other deregulated campaign systems. RFK Jr. and the con men candidates 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z It’s based on the Republican image of low-income Americans as layabouts and grifters — the “undeserving poor.” Column: With debt ceiling deal, GOP reveals its only real goal was cruelty to the poor 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z The GOP has attracted to its base the hitherto apolitical and disregarded: rednecks living off the grid, armed-to-the-teeth survivalists, psychopathic grifters and con artists, violent criminals, borderline psychotics, incels in their mothers' basements. The GOP's heart of darkness: Why Ron DeSantis can never beat Donald Trump 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z The word “easy” is repeated often in the first chapters of what becomes a quixotic new entry in the millennial grifter canon. 'The Girls' novelist Emma Cline takes on the millennial grifter tale 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z But what these fascist grifters are doing is even uglier than that. Why Steve Bannon and Alex Jones love RFK Jr. 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z But, I'm sure Fox will find someone just as awful pretty quickly: hateful grifters are a dime a dozen. "The monster cannot be killed": What comes next for Tucker Carlson? 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Unlike Cline’s attention-getting debut, “The Girls,” her new novel focuses on a single grifter. 10 books to add to your reading list this May 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z The rise and downfall of a predatory grifter who was responsible for the Ku Klux Klan’s ascent to power in the 1920s. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z “There remain many grifters out there who remain free to continue propagating the ‘great lie’ that Trump won the election, Donald Trump being among the most prominent. Capitol rioter who crushed officer with shield gets 7 years 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z His coverage of pump-and-dump grifters proves he can tell a complicated story simply and well, milking every beat. Review | Can guest hosts save ‘The Daily Show’? 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “We are going to see who are the politicians, who are the grifters and who are the America First patriots,” Gorka said. Republicans erupt in outrage and circle around Trump 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z “It seems like we’re raising a generation of adolescent grifters who will grow up having a totally skewed relationship of how to be ethical and make a living at the same time,” she said. Instagram users are being served gory videos of killing and torture 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z There were fatal leaps from windows, grifters scamming suckers, proposals accepted and vows broken — possibly all in the same night. Once the World’s Largest, a Hotel Goes ‘Poof!’ Before Our Eyes 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z “We are releasing the J6 tapes and not one single lying grifter on social media had anything to do with it,” Greene tweeted. ‘Civil war’ trends after Marjorie Taylor Greene tweets asks for national ‘divorce’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z "These grifters happily peddled known conspiracies that planted the seeds for January 6th — and cashed in the first chance they got," said Derek Martin, an Accountable.US spokesperson. "Quick buck": New report shows how MAGA election grifters "cashed in the first chance they got" 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z The state, an emergent presidential battleground, has become a political fun house, a carnival of continuing election denialism where clownish politicians and grifters proudly parade. Column: In Arizona, a crackpot gets promoted and underscores the danger to democracy 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z It funded alleged domestic grifters and foreign crime syndicates. $5.4 billion in covid aid may have gone to firms using suspect Social Security numbers 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Deranged grifters profit from what the writer Kurt Andersen has called the "fantasy-industrial complex," in which media provocateurs, including Infowars and Fox News, have cashed in on political messaging defined by a conspiratorial mindset. A 3-step plan to deprogram American idiocracy 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Right-wing grifters don't want their audiences to experience personal growth and improved lives. The fight over Big Con: Ben Shapiro's beef with Stephen Crowder, explained 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z In other words, grifters work with the grain of popular culture, or its component subcultures. Opinion | Like all good con artists, George Santos knew his marks 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z After all, what is the modern GOP, if not a holding station for every two-bit criminal and grifter who wants the job security that can only come with exploiting the endlessly credulous Republican base? George Santos is the Republican Party's future: A shameless con man 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Trump always was, in essence, a grifter — and always will be. Opinion | ‘Conspiracy to defraud’ is the perfect charge against the grifter Trump 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z "For years, cynical politicians and greedy grifters have joined forces with right-wing extremists to pour gasoline on anti-LGBTQ hysteria and terrorize our community," said Brandon Wolf, who survived the 2016 shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub. GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson's "pedophilia" attack on Katie Porter blows up in his face 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z As that last example shows, there's one important thing to understand about these masculinity grifters: Their "advice" makes the problems bedeviling their audiences worse. The fight over Big Con: Ben Shapiro's beef with Stephen Crowder, explained 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Santos might, however, be the first grifter to pose as both simultaneously — a stolen victimhood twofer. Opinion | Like all good con artists, George Santos knew his marks 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z He also argues that the latest scandals are "a chance to purge the scammers and grifters" out of crypto. After the FTX chaos, is crypto down and out after a torrid 2022? 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z So here's hoping that Bankman-Fried's arrest at least leads to some real movement toward regulating these shameless grifters out of existence. Cryptocurrency was always a scam — powered by white male privilege 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z “If you live here, you see that Miami has a lot of problems, so it is just stupid and disappointing to see our mayor palling around with grifters at these tech conferences.” As bitcoin plummets, Miami vows to hold onto its crypto dreams 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Right-wing grifters don't want their audiences to experience personal growth and improved lives. The fight over Big Con: Ben Shapiro's beef with Stephen Crowder, explained 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z He’s been married four times because he’s a grifter! Who lives, who dies, who commits murder? Our 7 best 'White Lotus' finale theories 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z In truth, however, it is West’s voice that is being “owned” and used by far-right grifters seeking to profit by stoking White populist anger against both Jews and African Americans. Opinion | Kanye West’s antisemitism has no deeper meaning. Stop looking. 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z And then the ecosystem of grifters that surround him are also getting rich; they're lining their pockets with small donations from people who are sincerely disappointed about the outcome of the election. Election administrators are under attack — here’s what that means for the upcoming midterms 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Insecure young men are not being taught how to be better persons in their relationships with young women; they are being taught to hate by misogynistic grifters. Republicans and the crisis of "manhood": Who are the real sex-obsessed pervs in America? 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z As for Horowitz, a colleague of his said, in a 2007 profile in the New York Times, that Horowitz describes himself as a “terrific combination of a scholar and a grifter.” Welcome to the 'Hotel California' saga: Missing lyric sheets, rare book dealers and a relentless Don Henley 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The new British thriller “Rogue Agent” takes a somewhat different approach, getting more into the ways the grifter manipulated his victims. Review: Patton Oswalt powers through 'I Love My Dad,' 'plus more movies to watch at home 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Doubters called him a grifter and a fraud, while many skeptics sympathetic to his cause reasoned that he was more a master storyteller and a salesman. Journey to the center of the sea moss universe. You'll see Dr. Sebi is alive in L.A. 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z He is also a con artist and grifter who has defrauded his followers of at least $250 million with his Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen." Trump 2024 is almost here: King of the long con looks to play his final trick 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z “As Glenn himself says, he’s a terrific combination of a scholar and a grifter,” Rick Gekoski, a book dealer in London who regularly did business with Horowitz, told The New York Times in 2007. Rare-Book Dealer Charged After Pilfered Eagles Lyrics Come to Light 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Falwell was an inveterate grifter, hustling Jesus to build a multimillion-dollar empire while ignoring Jesus' teachings about humility, poverty and the need to care for others. So where did all this right-wing religious nuttery come from? 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The committee intends to politically kneecap him and then deliver indictments, once he has been humiliated and exposed to his supporters for the grifter that the rest of the world knows him to be. Jan. 6 miniseries unfolds plot: Barr calls bulls**t, Rudy was drunk and Trump's in trouble 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Instead of being wrapped in the accoutrements of patriotism, they were surrounded by all the trappings of grifters, cheats and con-men stuck in an interrogation room. Perspective | The president’s men and women, under interrogation 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z While the Justice Department has brought hundreds of criminal cases, including some high-profile prosecutions of grifters, it has struggled to get at the big chunks of money that are believed to have flowed overseas. GOP challenges Biden’s new pandemic prosecutor 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z “To my mind, they are a vulnerable audience that is targeted for manipulation by a pretty small number of grifters,” Broniatowski says. The Anti-Vaccine Movement’s New Frontier 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Wade, however, people are waking up to this unholy alliance between religious grifters in the white evangelical movement, the Supreme Court and the GOP. So where did all this right-wing religious nuttery come from? 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z In other cases, it can be the work of grifters looking to start fake fundraisers or draw attention to their website or organization. ‘Horrifying’ conspiracy theories swirl around Texas shooting 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z As long as grifters can cash in on phony claims, and dishonest partisans can activate their supporters by corrupting faith in democracy itself, it will hardly be the last. Dinesh D'Souza's new film drives the Big Lie: Here's the truth about "ballot harvesting" 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z There are times when the show still manages to pull off that blessed trick, especially when taking satirical jabs at Black grifters who’ve figured out how to siphon White money into their own bank accounts. Perspective | Why ‘Atlanta’ Season 3 was such a letdown 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z The replacement-theory grifters know that they are stoking the anxieties some White people feel about the nation’s increasing diversity. Opinion | The Black victims of the Buffalo shooting were killed by white supremacy 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z For years, the crypto industry was dominated by political ideologues, shameless grifters and rich guys with yachts. A Crypto Emperor’s Vision: No Pants, His Rules 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z A month earlier, Crenshaw suggested that the House Freedom Caucus, of which Greene is a member, is full of "grifters" and "performance artists" “Still going after that slot on Russia Today huh?”: MTG and Dan Crenshaw exchange blows over Ukraine 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Throughout this period, various conspiracy nuts, hucksters, crackpots and grifters were running in and out of the White House with ludicrous schemes, pushing conspiracy theories. Keep the leaks coming: The case against Donald Trump is being built up by Republicans' big mouths 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Those are just a few of the celebrity gadflies, sycophants, grifters and weirdos he is backing. Does Trump still have the juice? His spotty endorsement record suggests decline 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z All the grifters, hangers-on and grasping operatives will carry on regardless, bilking the true believers out of their money and pretending they can alter reality simply with repetition and lies. Trump's lies are getting dumber — because he's locked in a power battle with Mitch McConnell 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z This produced a chaotic flood of free market ideologues, incompetents and grifters, all woefully disconnected from the reality of life in Iraq and the broader Middle East. Putin's massive miscalculation: Echoes of George W. Bush — and a lesson for America's elites 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z "We have grifters in our midst," Crenshaw said at the time. “Still going after that slot on Russia Today huh?”: MTG and Dan Crenshaw exchange blows over Ukraine 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z We even see this nostalgia for the bad old days in the rote response of grifter right-wing figures like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk to modern pop culture. Republicans aren't content to just "stop" history — they want to erase decades of progress entirely 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z But in the Trump era, this ugly grifter streak on the right has become more pronounced. The "People's Convoy," like Trump's new social media platform, is another right-wing grift gone bust 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Query athletes, coaches, trainers and doctors about the real state of affairs in their national organizations, who needs to go and what rules might deter the users, predators and grifters. Perspective | The Kamila Valieva ordeal proved a need for Olympic reform. Here are three places to start. 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z But now, spurred by hate groups tied to Trump’s border wall, deranged people have attacked the center and our employees, and more recently, grifters have live-streamed these groups’ absurd sex-trafficking lies. Dangerous Lies Threaten the National Butterfly Center 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Marcano thought the guy was either a lunatic or a grifter. A few months ago, he had never pushed a bobsled. This week, he pushed one in the Olympics. 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Critics have balked at the spectacle of the rich and famous encouraging viewers to gamble on a risky and speculative market that has been plagued by grifters. Et tu, Larry? Why so many celebrities are shilling for crypto 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z In any case, how much smarter could our social betters be if they fell for such an obvious grifter? Review | ‘Inventing Anna’ is about a scammer. So why does the show itself feel like a bait and switch? 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z What’s more, it turns out that the story of an 18th-century grifter inflated by Messianic delusions is surprisingly relevant to our own era. Review | Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘The Books of Jacob’ is finally here. Now we know why the Nobel judges were so awestruck. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z During a December campaign event, in a scathing critique of his own party, Crenshaw labeled several unnamed members of the GOP as "grifters" and "performance artists." GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw gets booed at Tea Party meeting: "Let's go Brandon!" 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z We had a chance to repudiate the immoral grifter who led our country for four years, and weaponized people’s worst fears and anxieties to the point of violence against our capitol. Op-Ed: A year after the Capitol attack, democracy itself is on every ballot 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z It isn't that we don't know he's a grifter, a con man or a thief. Donald Trump may finally face prosecution in the New Year: But the trauma won't end there 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z His follow-up, “Nightmare Alley,” is a bleak tale of carnies, grifters and a dishonest society that creates a far more despairing portrait of the world. How newly married Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan found the dark heart of 'Nightmare Alley' 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z But away from the carnival, you start to miss the almost pitiable charlatans, grifters and liars of that demimonde, replaced by villains of a more conventional — and hence more familiar — bent. Review | ‘Nightmare Alley’: The rise and fall of a con man, told in luscious, lurid detail 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z "We have grifters in our midst," Crenshaw apparently said of the Freedom Caucus, which includes Reps. GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw gets booed at Tea Party meeting: "Let's go Brandon!" 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z He has previously written for the magazine about the film “The Irishman,” devil’s advocates, “grifters” and the musician Richard Dawson. The Genius Behind the Weirdest Show on TV 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Mace, who publicly feuded with Greene last week, said the Georgia lawmaker was a “grifter of the first order” who takes advantage of “vulnerable conservatives.” Turning outrage into power: How far right is changing GOP 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Of course Trump was further hampered by his administration, which was an undisciplined mess of unprofessional liars, grifters and louts. Joe Biden's Christmas reboot: A tightly wound presidency badly needs some holiday cheer 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Instead, it ended up in the hands of criminals, from low-level grifters to sophisticated government-backed syndicates. ‘Makes me mad’: COVID-19 jobless aid flowed to enemy nations 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z But their tools, she wrote, have been adopted by “foreign operatives, partisan pundits, white supremacists, violent misogynists, grifters and scammers.” Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Seventy-one percent of Americans want Trump to leave our politics alone and go back to being a billionaire grifter. Is the new GOP "Southern Strategy" civil war & bloodshed...and a return to "Leave It To Beaver"? 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z They chanted the common taunt toward grifters Texas and Oklahoma: “SEC! SEC!” Analysis | Say you wandered into Kansas vs. Texas not long after halftime. Man, did you luck out. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Critics on social media have branded him a gold digger or a grifter. At Last, a Royal Wedding. But No Trumpets, Just a News Conference. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z “If true, this was not the dignified exit of a benevolent head of state, but that of a coward and grifter,” the lawmakers wrote in August. U.S. to probe allegations former Afghan president Ghani fled Taliban with millions in cash 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z “Parasite,” the 2019 film that won best picture at the Oscars, paired a desperate family of grifters with the oblivious members of a rich Seoul household. Behind the global appeal of ‘Squid Game,’ a country’s economic unease 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Which is why it only makes sense that the Republican Party would put up a lifelong grifter as its nominee for president in 2016. When will America break free from the clutches of political grifters? 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z To others, he’s a couch-surfing grifter — and the most shocking thing about the involvement of his Oath Keepers group in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was that some members actually showed up. Oath Keepers founder draws scrutiny from federal officials and followers 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z They said the Senate’s vote review funded by pro-Trump donors is being run by incompetent grifters hired by the Senate. County cuts deal to end fight over Arizona Senate subpoena 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z That same spirit has also allowed grifters and unethical hustlers to flourish, often with little consequence, raising questions about Silicon Valley’s tightening grip on society. Schemer or Naïf? Elizabeth Holmes Is Going to Trial. 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z There are other ideas worthy of consideration, but the standard should be writing rules that target wealthy freeloaders and corporate grifters and then enforcing those rules. Opinion | How to fix our rigged tax system 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Trump and a handful of his grifter buddies who were up for full-out treason thought they could pull off the ultimate grift and seize the trillions in assets of the entire country. When will America break free from the clutches of political grifters? 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z What we know about Mr. Cuomo speaks to problems we face with other Democrat grifters and monsters who choose politics as their mechanism to control and abuse people. Cuomo has more to account for than sexual harassment 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z They say the review is being run by incompetent grifters, and they’ve already provided everything needed to review the 2020 vote count. Arizona Senate issues new subpoena for 2020 election audit 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Guess which one is bound to become a magnet for conspiracy theorists, hoaxsters, propagandists, disinformation operatives, grifters and peddlers of false cures? Analysis | Facebook and YouTube’s vaccine misinformation problem is simpler than it seems 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z “Britney’s been abused by the media, she’s been abused by a grifter father, and she has been abused by the American justice system,” he said. Outside Britney Spears' hearing, Rep. Matt Gaetz slams Jamie Spears as 'a grifter' 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z He was the first professional grifter president of the modern era. When will America break free from the clutches of political grifters? 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Like all good grifters, Trump's talent is not in convincing people that he's an honest dealer, which is impossible. Another Trump henchman takes a fall: Why Trump fans still won't admit that loyalty to him is foolish 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z What they found was a mostly well-run exercise in civic duty, slightly smirched by honest mistakes quickly rectified — and then buried in an avalanche of fantasy, fever dreams, grifter fiction and “blatherskite.” Opinion | No, the election wasn’t stolen in Antrim County, Mich., either 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Abusers and grifters come from the same lot. Democrats replace city life with hellscapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Bravo realized that no matter how harrowing the story or how gruesome, some people would walk away from the movie believing that Zola was somehow at fault, a grifter even in her own story. How She Transformed a Viral Twitter Thread About Sex Work Into a Sinister Comedy 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z He believed he could follow in the footsteps of grifters before him who've taken control of and then drained dry countries from Hungary to Russia, Brazil to Turkey to the Philippines. When will America break free from the clutches of political grifters? 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, all but one of whom are Republicans, this week accused Republicans in the Senate of having “rented out the once-good name of the Arizona Senate” to “grifters.” Experts or ‘grifters’? Little-known firm runs Arizona audit 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z And many are going to look at hypocritical, power-hungry ministers praying over an obvious grifter like Trump and be too turned off to even consider getting involved. Church membership is in a freefall, and the Christian right has only themselves to blame 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Mercedes Schlapp, host of the Conservative Political Action Conference, became angry on Tuesday after a Fox News guest called her a "grifter." Fox News guest calls Tucker Carlson a conspiracy theorist while appearing on network 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z For right-wing grifters and politicians alike, being "in trouble" — i.e. getting liberal criticism — is the best possible thing. Republicans have perfected the troll two-step: The art of being a jerk and then playing the victim 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps the 2022 election will bring Democrats a large enough progressive majority that they can work around their own grifters. When will America break free from the clutches of political grifters? 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z And no doubt, there are a large number of grifters in the media — and their gullible followers — who brand themselves "leftists" but mostly just exist to undermine Democrats at every turn. Biden's stimulus bill gives progressives a big win. Now they must celebrate it 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z But, in truth, these grifters shouldn't worry too much. March 4 was a dud — but QAnon will persist because it is fueled by white entitlement 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z We certainly knew that nobody in the Trump administration was going to undertake anything of the sort, because they are all grifters. Financial author William Cohan on how Trump can make billions — and save himself one more time 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z It was the dawn of what was becoming known as the "summer of scam" or "grifter season". Netflix and Anna Delvey: The race to secure the story of New York's 'fake heiress' 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z “The left – and some grifters on the right – are consumed by partisan anger and rage,” his office said in a written statement earlier in the month. AP source: Cruz on vacation in Mexico as storm slams Texas 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Scammers, grifters and con artists: These seven podcasts delve into well-known and lesser-known stories. Three Million Shots a Day 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z The evidence does point to the long-standing truth grifters like Trump understand: The best marks are people who think they're part of the conspiracy. House Democrats make their case to Senate Republicans: Trump duped his rioters — and he'll dump you 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Using the right to privacy to hide one’s history as a grifter seems like a protection we can no longer afford. Opinion | If the Senate doesn’t convict Trump, here’s how to discourage him from running again 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The Republican National Committee must be purged of Trump supporters and Trumpian grifters. Opinion | Four good things that emerged from our nation’s horrifying week 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z He cast himself instead as a wide-ranging storyteller whose characters, he once told Ebony, included “engineers, ex-cons, comedians, artists, newscasters, writers, grifters, flight attendants, housewives, journalists, strippers, actors and attorneys.” Eric Jerome Dickey, best-selling African American novelist, dies at 59 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Harding, although surrounded by grifters who would stain his time in office with scandal, helped put an end to them. So we finally made it through 2020. Um … now what? 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z First, I do believe he is a con man and a grifter. Dr. Seth Norrholm: How to survive the physical, financial and emotional abuse of the Trump era 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z As businesses stayed shuttered and life moved permanently online, grifters hawked fake COVID-19 cures on all the big tech platforms. Fake masks, fake cures, fake money—2020 was a great year for scammers 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z That, my friends, is a skilled con man, an accomplished grifter, an unabashed criminal. Forty-one days of pure hell: How do we survive the end of the Trump presidency? 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z An enormous relief effort like the $523 billion Paycheck Protection Program is bound to attract grifters. How pandemic aid attracted hordes of gleeful and gutsy scammers 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z He and the various grifters who make up most of the right-wing media are eager to drain those suckers dry. Trump and his allies won't drop claims of stolen election — because they're cashing in 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z They include a transgender pilot, a charismatic grifter, a beloved uncle and a supposed copycat criminal. 49 years ago, D.B. Cooper became an ideal hero for cynical times. He still is. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z That it is a literary character who has come to embody the grifter archetype seems right; self-authorship is, of course, all about creating a convincing character within the narrative structure of one’s own aspirational thinking. How ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ Foretold Our Era of Grifting 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z He won’t appoint grifters and misfits to high office, and he will pay attention to his intelligence briefings. Opinion | I’m not just voting against Trump — I’m voting for Biden. Here are eight reasons. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The security officer said online grifters regularly shift tactics to fit current events, whether they are natural disasters, a pandemic or an election. Editorial Roundup: Louisiana 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z As Media Matters documented last week, a hive of right-wing grifters are blitzing their followers by email, demanding they turn over their grandkids' college fund to this effort to overturn the election results. Trump and his allies won't drop claims of stolen election — because they're cashing in 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Miller also on Monday mentioned Joe Biden's brothers, Frank and James, accusing them of being "grifters" and "making a lot of money off the system for years." Jim Jordan: Joe Biden must answer questions about Hunter's emails 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Online grifters regularly shift tactics to fit current events, whether they are natural disasters, a pandemic or an election, according to Small. Scammers seize on US election, but it’s not votes they want 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z In a sense there is a secret movie nestled inside the movie in “Kajillionaire,” as the comedy about a family of grifters transforms into a romantic story of self-discovery. Let Miranda July decode the 'love language' of 'Kajillionaire' for you 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Prosecutors need to show that the grifter meant to pass off a fake piece as legitimate The situation is far from unique. How fraudsters dupe the art world 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z There is mounting evidence of foreign operatives, partisan pundits, white supremacists, violent misogynists, grifters and scammers using impersonation on social media as a way to make money, gain status and direct media attention. Trolling for Truth on Social Media 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z He would bring competence and expertise back to federal agencies hollowed out by the grifters and bunglers Trump installed. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z George Takei stated: "An impeached criminal grifter shouldn’t be permitted to appoint a lifetime justice to the Supreme Court. Period." Hollywood continues to speak out about Trump selecting Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The script in question was “ Kajillionaire,” a story about a family of grifters in Los Angeles. Miranda July dreams up a con family in ‘Kajillionaire’ 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Prosecutors need to show that the grifter meant to pass off a fake piece as legitimate. How fraudsters dupe the art world 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z So even though Trump as squandered all the other money they've given him, there's still an incentive to try to push this grifter over the finish line with one last cash infusion. Death Star blows itself up: Trump ran his campaign finances like his businesses — into the ground 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z “In my view they were most likely a collection of grifters pursuing individual personal interests.” Review | He investigated Clinton and Trump. Then the Justice Department turned on him. 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z The entire anti-choice movement is rife with liars, grifters and religious fanatics, and whoever they could have swapped in for Johnson would have been just as bad. Of course the RNC featured anti-choice radical Abby Johnson, who thinks women shouldn't vote 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z New York artist Aruna D'Souza, accusing the museum of being grifters, tweeted: “The Whitney has made clear that museums are the ambulance chasers of the art world.” NYC museum cancels BLM, coronavirus exhibit this fall after being accused of financially taking advantage of artists 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The answer to this "what about," of course, is simple: Planned Parenthood is not a fraudulent organization run by grifters who redirect millions in donor contributions into their own pockets. N.Y. attorney general is doing conservatives a favor by going after NRA: They're its victims 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z After many years in prison, a former grifter tries to go straight, but the son of his former partner insists on learning the game and relieving a feared gangster of $8 million. Movies on TV this week: 'Gandhi' on Showtime; 'Giant' on TCM 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z "Stop this corrupt grifter ruining America. Donate to these savvy grifters who ruined it before and hope you don't look into them," the ad told viewers about Trump and The Lincoln Project. Rick Wilson, The Lincoln Project portrayed as 'grifters' during interview on Colbert animated news show 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Indeed, a lot of the responsibility rests with Trump and his hapless and corrupt collection of grifters, buffoons, sycophants, lobbyists and relatives. Robert Reich: America is exceptional in all the wrong ways 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Still, no judge allowed a change in venue to child abuser Joel Steinberg or grifter Sante Kimes, two defendants with tremendously bad pretrial publicity. "Bad apples" are not the problem: America's police have a long legacy of brutal misconduct 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z It's no exaggeration to say that the anti-choice movement, from tip to toe, is stuffed with liars and grifters. Jane Roe's deathbed confession: The anti-abortion movement paid her to lie 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Some of it is due to Trump and his hapless and corrupt collection of grifters, buffoons, sycophants, lobbyists and relatives. Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death | Robert Reich 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z But with the rise of social media, the world’s propagandists, con artists and grifters find their search for suckers easier than ever. Opinion | Why people believe in a ‘plandemic’ 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Only grifters who spent years going “Trump will surprise people” are surprised by this. Donald Trump's prescription for coronavirus: quite literally toxic | Marina Hyde 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, as the Chapo/Turks/Idiots crowd are a bunch of grifters speaking to a bunch of marks, they were going to do this to any Democratic nominee who wasn't Sanders. Trump trolls Bernie supporters, urging them to turn against Joe Biden 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The pro-choice movement stand with science and medical facts, while the anti-choice movement is rife with liars and grifters, and spews a dizzying amount of propaganda based on nothing but misogyny and lurid fantasy. Jane Roe's deathbed confession: The anti-abortion movement paid her to lie 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z That means Trump’s band of grifters can do far more damage than they could in, say, France or Germany. Opinion | The coronavirus shows how backward the United States has become 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The president has consistently surrounded himself with con men, grifters and enforcers. Opinion | Republicans owe Vindman a public apology 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The collaborators include not only small-time mafiosos and career grifters but also a struggling single mom and a wayward Mormon — regular folks in decidedly over their heads. 'McMillions' isn't your usual true crime docuseries. Here's how they made it 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Faced with so many profiles in courage, our reality TV star of a commander-in-chief will carry on regardless, seeking out fellow grifters, foreign strongmen and domestic weaklings. Republicans march over the impeachment cliff – taking their self-respect with them | Richard Wolffe 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Experts warn that this ad-targeting system is still vulnerable to manipulation by foreign governments and domestic grifters trying to influence the election, just as they did in 2016. Online ads still vulnerable to manipulation in US election 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The impeachment process has produced granular details about what the president did regarding Ukraine, and about his manner of doing things, and about the grifters he attracts just as magnets attract iron filings. Opinion | There is more utility than futility in the impeachment trial 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z To accomplish this, they enlist a groundbreaking top-secret military A.I. project that has been stolen by military-industrial grifters who hope to spin it off into a Silicon Valley startup. Review: William Gibson's time-twisting 'Agency' imagines a Trump-less present 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z It’s astounding how thoroughly Trump has managed to do the polar opposite, surrounding himself with incompetents, mediocrities, sycophants and grifters. Opinion | Trump doesn’t want aides with values. He wants servile minions. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z With startling regularity, new names emerge on what seems a bottomless list of scoundrels and grifters. Opinion | Thanks to Trump, we are living in a world of sleaze 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z His book is not about ideology, he emphasized, It's about how to defeat the racist, sexist, grifter who threatens the future of our nation. Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson: "F**king hating" Trump is the key to winning in 2020 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z As in every elaborate house-of-games thriller, the actors playing the grifters and the griftees alike are all in professional cahoots, merrily engaged in their own deeper charade. 'Parasite' was one of the best-acted movies of 2019. Why didn't the Oscars recognize that? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z As always, there are grifters who extort impressionable followers for clout and money. My journey into the dark, hypnotic world of a millennial guru 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Rather it should propel both administrations to establish rigorous checks and balances to ensure money does not go into grifters’ pockets. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The anti-wind efforts are a story largely told by two parties: local groups and travelling anti-wind grifters funded by nonrenewable energy interests. Fossil fuel knocks the wind out of renewable energy movement in Ohio 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z It ended up being a face-off between two very different stories about family: a black comedy about a clan of grifters in Seoul and a stirring tale of four sisters in Civil War-era Massachusetts. Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite' wins best picture at National Society of Film Critics awards 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z All of Lindelof’s shows are full of grifters and shills, and in “Watchmen” that situation is racialized, through stories about the vulnerability of black people in white institutions, trusting white allies only to be betrayed. The Incendiary Aims of HBO’s “Watchmen” 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z He is the kind of guy who likes to embellish his own bad rep: political consultant as Times Square grifter. Opinion | Roger Stone should be a footnote in history. Instead, his life shows our descent to shamelessness. 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z But sure, it might be enough to bamboozle some Americans who don't follow politics closely and somehow missed hearing that their president is a grifter. Marie Yovanovitch testifies — and kneecaps a central Trump defense 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Every blonde in San Francisco dressed up as the Theranos grifter for Halloween apparently – Bay Area Uniqlos completely sold out of black turtlenecks. If the government tracks women’s periods, why not track male ejaculation, too? | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Schembri has been a private eye for more than 30 years, tracking down grifters, liars and cads from her Brooklyn base. This Investigator Used to Stake Out Women. Now, She Tails Men Online. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z You’d think the maternal abandonment or grifter drum friend would be the part of that story that stuck with me, but no, it was the inexplicable wooden tail — baby’s first visit to the uncanny valley. What the Pacific Northwest is reading: For screaming meemies, turn to ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z But if the media is to tell the whole story of the rise and demise of America’s Mayor, they need to confess to their role in this grifter’s ascension. Giuliani was always a fraud. Just ask the FDNY 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z It asks us to identify with the Kims, a family of resourceful grifters who insinuate themselves into a wealthy family. Newsletter: The year's best movie opens today 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Ki-jung, the most intuitive grifter in a family full of them, shows up with a coolly professional demeanor and a mouth full of therapeutic gobbledygook. Review: Thrilling and devastating, 'Parasite' is one of the year's very best movies 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z In this, America is perhaps the rightful home of grifters, for where else in the world is so deeply identified with the possibility of transcending humble origins and becoming someone powerful and new? The Distinctly American Ethos of the Grifter 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z It asks us to identify with the Kims, a family of resourceful grifters who infiltrate themselves into a wealthy family. Best of the 2019 Toronto Film Festival: There was 'Parasite' and there was everything else 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z In other words, under Trump it’s springtime for grifters. Why Trump is bad for American business — but good for scams 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z As the number of grifter, lost-cause and/or vanity campaigns shrinks, volatility will increase. Presenting your 2020 Democratic Power Ranking 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z But the leaks have taken a toll: Even Fox News, a reliable sanctuary, attacked him this week, with a host describing him as “an odious little grifter.” How Wayne LaPierre Survived a Revolt at the N.R.A. 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z It’s the shortest route that calls to the grifter, who recognizes that for someone starting from a position of disadvantage, the American dream sometimes requires cutting corners. The Distinctly American Ethos of the Grifter 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z The U.S.-educated Zarif, he said, “is not a diplomat. He’s a con man. He’s a shill. He’s a grifter. This is the sort of step by the United States that shows he’s illegitimate.” Sanctioning of Iran’s foreign minister adds to confusion over administration policy 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z “They saw Mr. Moradi for exactly what he is: a grifter and a confidence man.” NFL QB Drew Brees awarded $6M in diamond fraud lawsuit 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z Not since the sordid administration of Warren G Harding have as many grifters, crooks and cronies occupied high positions in Washington. Welcome to Trump's Corrupt State – the Mos Eisley cantina of world politics | Robert Reich 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z There's a long and ugly history of right-wing grifters exploiting the paranoid, reactionary impulses of their followers to bamboozle them out of their hard-earned money. In the Trump era, the NRA has finally been revealed as a pathetic fraud 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Politicians and financiers may be perennially conniving, but they aren’t grifters because they’re part of the system — true practitioners of the art thrive in the margins. The Distinctly American Ethos of the Grifter 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z Then again, we will get rid of Trump and his band of grifters in due course — next year, one hopes, but in a worst-case scenario in 2024. Opinion | Trump poses a test for the Brits’ stiff upper lip 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Turns out he’s just another grifter in the Trump orbit, one more operator moving money around for Trump. Go ahead. Impeach Trump 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z There is a seemingly endless supply of suckers online — and just as many grifters and cranks eager to dupe them. Opinion | Are we becoming too stupid to govern ourselves? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z More than that, the plot of “Parasite,” involving a family of grifters, echoed that of last year’s Japanese winner, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s warm and empathetic “Shoplifters.” Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’ and Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantics’ make history at Cannes Film Festival 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z In this turbulent era, there’s almost a nostalgic appeal to the grifter, who so glibly shakes off the shackles of identity and rejects the raw deal of birth. The Distinctly American Ethos of the Grifter 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z Graham has long ago transmogrified himself from a military lawyer and McCain Republican into an apologist for the pro-Russian grifters who run this White House. Barr's inquiry into the Trump-Russia inquiry is corruption eating itself | Richard Wolffe 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z But beyond the usual #Resistance grifters on Twitter, there's been very little uproar about this latest move by the Trump administration. Bill Barr goes scapegoat-hunting to boost Donald Trump's conspiracy theories 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z And from Elizabeth Holmes to Lori Loughlin, white women are having a cultural heyday as alleged scammers, grifters and con artists. Review: Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson click as madcap scammers in ‘The Hustle’ 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Just as so many male entrepreneurs have turned out to be grifters, except they weren’t young women with big unblinking eyes, so it wasn’t quite as delicious. Women hold power in 'Long Shot' and 'Veep' — a fantasy that feels less and less inspiring 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z This makes us easy prey for — perhaps even complicit with — grifters who play off our communal, mimetic desires. The Distinctly American Ethos of the Grifter 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z She began with a simple question of an attorney general who was supposed to apply some establishment lacquer to the grifters and jokers who are the best and brightest on Planet Trump. It's painfully clear: today's Congress wouldn't have impeached Richard Nixon | Richard Wolffe 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z But she also feels like something more modern, a scam artist with hints of Elizabeth Holmes or Anna Delvey, the grifter who hires a stylist for her court appearances. Chick Magnets on “Gentleman Jack” and “Killing Eve” 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z But it was easy to sort the grifters from the men of substance: a person without a coat and a scarf—a precursor to the necktie—wasn’t to be taken seriously. The Mail 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z In the real world, no story has obsessed so many for so long as that of Elizabeth Holmes, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who turned out to be a grifter. Women hold power in 'Long Shot' and 'Veep' — a fantasy that feels less and less inspiring 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Nowadays, there's no visible light between the raving crazies of the far right and the mainstream Republican Party, and that's not all due to Trump surrounding himself with his fellow charlatans and grifters. Shed a tear for WorldNetDaily — or maybe don't. But the downfall of a far-right site is instructive 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Instead, he revealed himself to the biggest grifter of them all: a fake attorney general defending a fraudulent administration. It's painfully clear: today's Congress wouldn't have impeached Richard Nixon | Richard Wolffe 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z David Karpf, a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University, viewed Mr. Avenatti as part of a larger phenomenon of “resistance grifters,” or people harnessing anti-Trump outrage for financial gain. Michael Avenatti’s Biggest Case Yet: His Own 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z But this, too, is probably of negligible political importance, given what already is known about the grifter in chief. Opinion | Thanks to Mueller, 2020 won’t be about 2016 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z When Wall Street grifters tanked the economy that was not broadly attributed to a "culture of affluence." Anti-racism activist Tim Wise: How white privilege shaped the college admissions scandal 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The jury is still out, but most of the evidence points to Sendler being a world-class grifter. How a fake sex doctor conned the media 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z I now see that I should have reassured my father: the director was coming, the grifters would be exposed. Family Medicine 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z It was a period saturated with robber barons, professional grifters, and incomprehensibly wealthy banking magnates. Survival of the richest: All are equal, except those who aren’t 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Incredibly, none of the Republicans on the panel even tried to refute the claim that the president of the United States is, in his essence, an unscrupulous grifter. Opinion | Michael Cohen’s revelations advance Trump’s inevitable reckoning 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z In a series of linked episodes, the filmmakers explore the thoughtless cruelty of the European grifters. Review: ‘This Magnificent Cake!’ explores Belgian colonialism through animation 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z He discovered New York columnist Jimmy Breslin, whose grit and sparse vernacular brought grifters and working stiffs to life. 'The Border' is Don Winslow's final chapter in a chilling, timely and seminal drug war trilogy 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Christie’s “Let Me Finish” laments Trump’s choice of “amateurs, grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons … hustled into jobs they were never suited for.” Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Today’s equivalent crew of the mega-wealthy build remarkably intangible things like tech and electronic platforms, while a grifter of a president opts for the only new infrastructure in sight, a great wall to nowhere. Survival of the richest: All are equal, except those who aren’t 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z “We get all kinds in this office—crusaders, people who are just really upset, people who are just crooks themselves, frankly. It’s not uncommon at all for complete grifters to come in and pitch cases.” The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z What started out with an accusation that the sex worker was some kind of grifter or crackpot ended up with the initial reporting from the WSJ being borne out and then some. Everybody do the Giuliani shuffle 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Warren also slammed Trump as a "grifter and a scammer" who gives "giant tax giveaways to the billionaires, to the big corporations and a harder and harder squeeze for working families." Warren: Trump is a "grifter and a scammer" who gives "giant tax giveaways to the billionaires" 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Lots of people are rejoicing at the prospect of President Donald Trump being exposed as a con man and a grifter. Removing Trump from office would come at a steep price 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z His tone-deaf comportment oddly reminds me of another grifter, former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. Opinion | Trump doesn’t seem to value anything — except himself 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Those details, however, may well show whether Trump staffed his campaign, like his business, with disorganized, corrupt grifters or with willing participants in a foreign conspiracy against the United States. Michael Flynn’s Dramatic Day in Court 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z He runs a criminal mob full of grifters and crooks. Former Michael Flynn Business Associates Indicted in Turkey Lobbying Case 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z “Grift” and “grifter” are old-fashioned words, but ever more useful ones. Why Are We Suddenly Surrounded by ‘Grift’? 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Hopefully the CIA is monitoring the situation and protecting America from these grifters in the Trump White House. The Wooing of Jared Kushner: How the Saudis Got a Friend in the White House 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z He’s bad but they’re all like that, the whole elite class is rotten, so why not send a grifter to catch a bunch of grifters? Opinion | Under Trump, the Swamp Is Draining 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Donald Trump is a grifter and he surrounds himself with grifters. Donald Trump’s band of losers: Getting desperate as Mueller closes in 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z And, cherry on the gilded cake, we put white-collar criminals in charge of the country — elevating epic grifters to the presidency and powerful cabinet posts. Opinion | Too Rich to Jail 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z This year, Salon labeled the president the “grifter in chief,” and the late-night host Seth Meyers called him “a grifter who surrounds himself with other grifters.” Why Are We Suddenly Surrounded by ‘Grift’? 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z It only holds press briefings when facing unflattering news stories that might make some wobblier Trump voters start to nurse doubts about supporting a flagrant woman-hating grifter. Time to walk away: Real journalists should boycott the farcical White House press briefings 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z That hasn’t worked out; it turns out that when you send a businessman-grifter into the world of political grifters he hires some of the worst of them to help him with the fleecing. Opinion | Under Trump, the Swamp Is Draining 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z He described Trump as “a grifter who surrounds himself with other grifters” while discussing the latest set of allegations aimed at his cabinet. Seth Meyers: Trump is 'a grifter who surrounds himself with other grifters' 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Melissa McCarthy plays Israel and Richard E. Grant co-stars as Jack Hock, a charismatic grifter who ends up helping Lee. Q&A: McCarthy and Grant on New York, forgery and friendship 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Trump has been a greasy, grubby, grasping, greedy grifter all his life, and he’s running scared. Hurricane Manafort makes landfall in Washington D.C. 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z With News Corp providing an increasingly receptive platform for touring alt-right grifters, it’s important for the ABC to get it right. The consequences of Steve Bannon's ideas need to be interrogated, not just his words | Jason Wilson 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Not a grifter; just an exemplar of the American elite. Opinion | Under Trump, the Swamp Is Draining 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Trump is a criminal, he said, surrounded by “fifth-tier grifters” who, under normal circumstances, would be “generating PowerPoints to defraud pensioners.” Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z And it is absolutely satisfying on its own terms to watch as the rogue’s gallery of grifters and confidence men that surround the president are tossed into the clink, one by one. Don’t kid yourselves, Democrats. Trump’s final hour is not upon us | Ian Samuel 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In the past, the grifter would have a lot of misses. Maria Konnikova Shows Her Cards 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Proving to their target audience they were legit and not another group of grifters looking to make a dollar off of hungry fans was just the beginning of their expectation management campaign. How the first Wakandacon escaped the fan convention curse 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z In my mind, treating those who would protect themselves with the legally available form of Obamacare as grifters is obnoxious. Trump White House steps up its attack on legal immigrants 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z This comes the day after Forbes published a rather brutal piece that raised the allegation that Donald Trump’s Commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, “could rank among the biggest grifters in American history.” 'Culture of corruption' case against the GOP gets a little easier 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z It’s unclear whether the GOP corporate tax-rate cuts will change the grifter mentality. Another bite of the Apple: Beyond that trillion-dollar valuation 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z With marks so willing, and so fueled by unswerving belief, it's easy for grifters to convince themselves they're in the right. Remember Kris Kobach? Trump’s “voter fraud” hunter is just part of the big right-wing grift 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z In addition to the show about the grifter, Ms. Rhimes has seven other series in the works at Netflix, ranging from period dramas to a documentary. Shonda Rhimes Describes Her Grand Netflix Ambitions 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z A lesser grifter wouldn’t have spent $1,560 of the taxpayers’ money on a dozen pens from a fancy Washington jewelry store. Scott Pruitt: The fall of the king of the grifters 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump is a charlatan and a grifter, or at best a sketchy Prospero. Did an Ancient Greek Anticipate Trump? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z We knew Trump was a skinflint and a grifter. Opinion | Psychos on the Potomac 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z It lacked the kind of vetting procedures that might have excluded political grifters like Paul Manafort or Carter Page. Did the FBI save Trump’s presidency? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z This year, Kore-Eda's story of a family of small-time grifters whose decision to shelter an abused child causes unforseen complications clearly touched the jury. 'Shoplifters' wins Palme d'Or as Spike Lee takes second place at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z A lesser grifter wouldn’t have floated the idea of a $100,000-a-month charter aircraft membership so that he could use private jets for government business. Scott Pruitt: The fall of the king of the grifters 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Shielding officials from public scrutiny, rolling back campaign finance law, and kneecapping enforcement of existing laws and regulations designed to protect the public are precisely the conditions that help grifters and swamp monsters thrive. Opinion | The GOP is no longer the party of Reagan. It’s the party of Michael Cohen. 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Because the critics focus too much on the man and not enough on the message, their basic complaint about Trump voters has been: “You sold your principles to back a grifter for short-term political gain.” Opinion | The conservative renaissance has begun 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z If only he were just a grifter skimming a bit here and a bit there. In Letter to E.P.A., Top Ethics Officer Questions Pruitt’s Actions 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z But perhaps with a more competent group of autocrats and grifters next time. For Mueller, a Feared Weakness Becomes a Strength 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z No wonder Trump loves him--in Putin he sees a fellow avaricious grifter, and a more effective one at that. Opinion | The Poison Putin Spreads 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, said, “Taxpayer dollars don’t grow on trees, but Mr. Zinke and his fellow grifters in the Trump administration repeatedly raid the federal treasury like it does.” Interior Department pays $139,000 to fix doors in Zinke's office 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Image: Tor.com No roach ain’t never gonna run ’cross a flimflam man’s plate, excepting the grifter in question’s already got himself around the best part of his supper. Read an excerpt from Elizabeth Bear’s next steampunk adventure Stone Mad 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z A Herald review of fraud cases last year found grifters were submitting heaps of phony claims on behalf of relatives, unwitting friends and even the dead. Metro wants to refund fares for late trips. Here’s how that idea worked out in other cities 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Adapted by Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky from the 2009 documentary "The Man Who Would Be Polka King," "The Polka King" doesn't have the dazzling ambition or energy of a great grifter classic. Jack Black cons his way into the audience's heart in 'The Polka King' – LA Times 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z They are a sign voters are being played, probably by a grifter. Alabama Teaches America a Lesson 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, said, “Taxpayer dollars don’t grow on trees, but Mr. Zinke and his fellow grifters in the Trump administration repeatedly raid the federal treasury like it does.” Interior Department pays $139,000 to fix doors in Zinke's office 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The world is being taken over by narcissistic billionaires, thugs, grifters, criminals and dictators! Mystery Buyer of $450 Million ‘Salvator Mundi’ Was a Saudi Prince 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Trump and his grifter family, and of course all those super-wealthy Republican donors will take millions out of the federal treasury using tax "reform" as a cover. Tax Plan Crowns a Big Winner: Trump’s Industry 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z When he strongly attacks grifters like Coates, it's because they so richly deserve it. Cornel West Doesn’t Want to Be a Neoliberal Darling 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z As grifters go, Trump is inept; after all these years, he's still performs like a rookie. Trump in Asia: A ‘Very Epic’ Charm Offensive 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z That leaves the field open for the hucksters, grifters, and snake oil salesmen who will get elected. Departures Promise to Reshape the House, Whether or Not Election Does 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z A grifter who'd spent most of his adult life in jail, he orchestrated a killing spree with the intention of sparking a race war. Manson's music was a macabre sidenote 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z But that is what we get from this greedy grifter. Tax Plan Crowns a Big Winner: Trump’s Industry 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Maybe grifters and fixers gravitated to the Trump campaign because they saw an opportunity for personal enrichment. Think Paul Manafort is about to tank the White House? Hold your horses | Walter Shapiro 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z Despite consensus among all branches of government, the President is struggling to get rid of known grifters, abusers, and harassers. Editorials from around New England 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Tawdry personal alliances and shady back-scratching among grifters is how you get an ungovernable leviathan federal government that stinks worse than a swamp at low tide in August. Donald Trump’s attacks on Jeff Sessions’ recusal don’t help drain the swamp 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z You have been taken in by a grifter. What Trump Gets Right on Trade 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z A potential grifter in the making, the shoplifting teen is, like everyone else, in the dark about Pete’s real identity. The delicious 'Sneaky Pete' has cheats, liars and a familiar thug 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Actually making a living is a privilege reserved for government grifters and the urban elite. Though Awash in Fakes, China Rethinks Counterfeit Hunters 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z He’s a clickbait grifter who has made a name for himself by spewing hate speech. Simon & Schuster is rewarding alt-right hate speech. We cannot stay silent | Adam Morgan 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z So please remember: you are important, every day, much more so than any of the grifters headed to the White House. A year-end plea: don't let politics overshadow life's splendor | Steven W Thrasher 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Taking its inspiration from films such as, The Sting, Vaughn played an elderly con man responsible for setting up potential targets for a younger generation of grifters. Obituary: Robert Vaughn - BBC News 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Hourhands, sunspots, railroad timetables, farmers' fields or the propellers on the hats of city council grifters have nothing to do with dark dangers on NYC streets. As Evening Commute Gets Darker, It Also Gets More Dangerous, Officials Warn 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z It's a well documented fact that Madonna was a street urchin/hustler/grifter in her early NYC days. New York Today: Madonna’s Metropolis 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z And as we’ve seen with the Clintons, is now a game for grifters, selling access and influence, with the highest bidder rewarded with the most influence. Obama will likely become the first ex-president billionaire 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Hillary Clinton, in Bannon’s telling, is a “grifter” who would take the country to the “last days of Sodom.” Donald Trump’s new loose cannon 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Having the games in only one place would not fly because there would be far less chance for contractors, grifters, politicians and all the rest get rich building all those worthless locations. An Olympic Event Where 1st Prize Is the Chance to Lose Billions 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Government, after all, has become a chimera all its own — part skunk, part vulture and part grifter. Federal dollars shouldn’t go for unethical embryo research 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z I wonder if the mess they made helped them blur over the truth: In place of a leader, Republicans have a grifter with no policies, plans or issues. Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins: GOP Caveman's Manifesto 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Trump is the essence of a grifter: everybody is a sucker, to be taken. Hillary Clinton’s Convention: Day 4 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The expanse glinted with ochre, bronze and gold; of leather chairs and inlaid wood ceilings, a mix of Mission Revival and Art Deco that conjured grifters, Mad Men and doomed affairs. Caleb Duffy has an eye for turning L.A.'s hidden gems into myriad cinematic worlds 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Fort McMurray is more than an environmental hotspot, more than a metonymy for oil sands, more than a grail for jobseekers and grifters. There’s more to Fort McMurray than oil sands – it’s a real community | Aritha van Herk 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z It was Brown’s contention — vouched first in her 1962 bestseller “Sex and the Single Girl” and then in the pages of Cosmo, which she reinvented — that the ideal single woman was part courtesan, part grifter. The woman who encouraged women to be girly on the path to equality 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z A grifter takes advantage of a person’s confidence for his own specific ends—ends that are often unknowable to the victim and unrelated to the business at hand. Donald Trump, Con Artist? 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z New York Times columnist Paul Krugman lit into the hopefuls in the GOP’s latest debate for embracing what he considers a “grifter ethos.” Paul Krugman: Brazen lies are now “the driving force behind GOP politics” 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Three grifters, a wannabe prophet, and one candidate for president. The grifters captured the GOP: How Trump, Carson and the con artists hijacked the presidency 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z As Paul Newman advised Robert Redford in “The Sting”: “No sense being a grifter if it’s the same as being a citizen.” A Football Gambler Gives Up the Game 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z She is often referred to as Jemima’s sibling by the press, particularly because her only film role so far — as a trailer park grifter in last year’s “Gone Girl” — was small but tasty. Lola Kirke steps out of sister Jemima's shadow in Noah Baumbach's 'Mistress America' 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Too many grifters in hard metal chairs looking for scraps. The mystery of Dodgers' offense? He's on the case 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z But over the years, the Caucasian grifter somehow became a black ghetto mom in a Cadillac who pumped out babies for money. California Editorial Roundup 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z There’s the seed of a funny, mean idea inside that portrait: that being a lawyer and being a grifter are not, in truth, different jobs. Better Watch Saul? 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z If a sport could blush, it wouldn't be horse racing, stronghold of gamblers, grifters, cheats, liars, high-rollers, lowlifes, bag men, drummers, drunks and debutantes — the kind of real folks who fill jury pools and saloons. Santa Anita barkeep recalls when sport of kings drew Hollywood greats 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z In it, Carrasco — globally famous for being duped by “Cherokees” asking for precious-metal handouts — is offering tips to avoid being duped, by grifters, in a scam. Handy tips on scam avoidance by chief City Light scam-ee 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z A few months back, a day after the Republican Leadership Conference kicked off in New Orleans, Jamelle Bouie wondered in Slate “Why the Republican Party attracts provocateurs, faux martyrs, and grifters in droves?” GOP’s moronic inferno: The real reason cranks and shills rule the party 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z So what four ethical tips can we take away from a study of the scams and cons of grifters? 4 Powerful Things Con Men Can Teach You About Persuasion 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z For instance, he worked in South America for several years in the 1850s as a stagecoach driver, a fact hard to square with his being a psychopathic grifter. Opinion: Beyond the Damaged Brain 2014-05-03T18:33:28Z "As all of you know, when you have an old and a cold case, it's sometimes human nature to blame the drifter or the grifter or the con artist, isn't it?" Rockefeller imposter tried to hide 1985 California murder: prosecutor 2013-03-19T00:10:13Z None of the grifters or poseurs at FreedomWorks is entitled to read Powell out of it. The right’s Colin Powell freakout 2013-01-16T00:04:00Z His character, Lieutenant Snyder relentlessly pursues two grifters, played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford, before himself becoming one of the victims of their elaborate con. Been and Gone: War veteran actor and other losses 2013-01-02T04:05:00Z In Rangoon, the streets and hotels are jammed with representatives of foreign companies, foreign-government officials, entrepreneurs—and grifters looking to cash in on the economic opening. Obama’s Delicate Burma Dance 2012-11-19T14:42:00Z Robert Kelly was simply an old-fashioned grifter touting a new technology opportunity in order to pick people’s pockets. What Can Stop You From Getting Rich On Tech Stocks 2012-10-05T10:16:43Z “I almost want to call them grifters,” says Flacks. The Talented M. Despallières 2012-06-28T22:58:48Z Seems that the ancient world was not without its grifters. Smithsonian adds mummies to display of spiritual life in ancient Egypt 2012-03-05T19:55:33Z So coincidence or not, it's galling to people who care about civil rights that grifters like Beck and Palin will desecrate the site of one of King's greatest speeches this weekend. Beck has a scheme 2010-08-25T22:26:00Z You, Wally Wilson," she said around the cigar, "get these grifters out of here. The Big Fix At the same time, Litchfield was getting a steady influx of job-seekers, and a secondary swarm of thugs, grifters and gangsters who followed them. The Cosmic Computer I've known some entertaining grifters, beggars, and bums; a few of them chose their way of life for their own, just as I became a mechanical engineer. Highways in Hiding Quite a few are crooks and grifters who don't have much in the way of technical sophistication; just some rule-of-thumb rip-off techniques. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier Number Three includes grifters, beggars, bums, and guys out for the soft touch and here I begin to wonder. Highways in Hiding Even the young hackers were crafty and suspicious, and as for the professional grifters, they tended to split for the nearest state-line at the first sign of trouble. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier They wanted to make dire examples of the worst offenders, to seize the ringleaders and intimidate the small fry, to discourage and frighten the wacky hobbyists, and send the professional grifters to jail. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier |
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