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The Trump family and those in the Former Guy orbit (Lindsey Graham, Newt Gingrich, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Matt Gaetz, et al) have been busier than ever flooding email in-boxes with solicitations for money, money, money and, oh, yes, more money.

These parasites are offering anything they can lay their hands on as an inducement to separate supporters from their money – even to the point of surreptitiously setting up recurring “donations” from donors who mistakenly thought they were giving a one-time gift.

Among the keepsakes being offered are “official” BUSINESS CARDS identifying suckers donors as members of some non-existent Trump club, T-shirts, caps, chances to actually meet one of the Donald’s (Former Guy or shyster Junior) at some rally, etc.

I’m not quite sure how I managed to get on the organization’s email list, but I receive, on average, a dozen solicitation per day and I’m also approached at the beginning of the message as “one of (my or dad’s, or Former Guy’s – depending on whom the message is ostensibly from) most loyal supporters.”

Occasionally, the message will note that Former Guy has been going over his list of donors and has noticed that I haven’t kicked in my fair share in quite some time (as in never) before attempting to shame me into emptying my bank account into his campaign coffers.

But now we have a new twist and one of our Livingston Parish Trumpers has apparently coughed up $500 to make it appear that Junior actually has us in his TAPs (thoughts and prayers).

There’s an online outfit called CAMEO that allows you to actually purchase (please remember the word “purchase” here) a personalized message from a celebrity.

It’s a hoot.

If you click on the link above, you will be taken to a page where JUNIOR spews out birthday greetings to Christina from Anna, to Lindsay from Matthew, and to Ira from T.K., John and Sarah, nuptial congratulations to Chris from Amanda, and retirement best wishes to Jessica from Michelle (retirement).

And he looks so genuinely excited as he does so. But hell, at $500 a pop, I could look pretty enthusiastic myself. That’s the going price for a “personal use” message like those above. For business purposes, the price is a tad higher – $5,000.

Other celebs who you will whore lend themselves to personal messages on the Cameo web page can be seen by clicking on this HERE, HERE, and HERE. Even DREW BREES gets into the act but at least he’s doing it as a fundraising effort on behalf of his foundation that helps cancer patients and families in need – not some gimmick to obtain funds for personal use.

Predictably, local advocate for a new civil war (he actually espoused such an idea on his Facebook page a few months back, declaring he was “ready.”) and unsuccessful local office seeker BRANDON BROWNING ponied up his $500 (or $5,000 – we really don’t know which, but it was one of the two options) to have Junior deliver a heartfelt message of encouragement to Livingston Parish residents as they braced for Hurricane Ida a couple of weeks ago.

Of course, Facebook lit up with enthusiastic praise for Junior’s taking time out of his busy schedule to personally express his concern for us in our time of crisis, forgetting for the moment that Junior did it for the money, not out of compassion for the citizens of Livingston Parish.

You’d have thought that he made a personal sojourn to Livingston Parish to break out his personal DT chain saw and to begin the storm cleanup.

Apparently, it never occurred to all those Former Guy faithful here that (a) Junior was paid well for his 40-second effort on behalf of Livingston’s storm victims, (b) after cutting the message, he never gave us another thought, and (c) he’s smiling as he deposits Browning’s payment in the ever-growing Former Guy Sucker Account.