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Donald Trump’s former White House aide is under fire after a video showed him claiming to distribute fake money to homeless people so that they will be arrested when they spend it.
Johnny McEntee, formerly the White House Presidential Personnel Office under the former president, posted a video on TikTok in which he discusses the purported scheme to “clean up the community.”
“So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car, so when a homeless person asks for money, and I give them like a $5 bill, I feel good about myself, they feel good,” said McEntee, also a senior advisor to Project 2025. “And then when they go to use it, they get arrested, so I’m actually helping to clean up the community and get them off the street.”
His intentions are evil, that’s a fact. But prop money isn’t counterfeit money.
Prop money is counterfeit money if you try to pass it as real money.
That’s exactly what he did with it, and then bragged about it stating his criminal intent.
Any money you try to pass off as real money is counterfeit money. Intent matters here.