By the age of 23, what had you accomplished? You probably weren’t as prolific as Jacob Wohl, the Trumpist grifter’s Max Fischer and Inspector Clouseau. He was accused of scamming investors before he turned 20. He was charged with a felony when he was 21, about the same time he was banned from Twitter for attempting — and miserably failing — to defame Kamala Harris, Ilhan Omar, and Robert Mueller. Now he’s on the verge of being the latest Trump supporter to be sued for a large sum of money.
The Federal Communications Commission has suggested charging Wohl and his frequent collaborator John Burkman for making over 1,000 robocalls that made fraudulent claims about voting in the 2020 election, according to NBC News. According to the FCC, the two targeted voters in New York, Ohio, and Michigan between August 26 and September 14, 2020, with state prosecutors alleging that they were attempting to suppress the Black vote.
“If you vote by mail, your personal information will be part of a public database that will be used by police departments to seek down old warrants and by credit card companies to collect outstanding debts?” they stated in their calls. If it passes, it will be the greatest robocall fine in FCC history.
In addition to the FCC punishment, Wohl and Burkman face criminal charges from New York Attorney General Letitia James, who recently headed the investigation into former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, which culminated in his departure.
Wohl first gained national notice for a smaller, failed scam in which he continued making plainly false statements on Twitter about being in “hipster coffee shops” where liberals were professing their admiration for Trump. One of his many gaffes was when he and Burkman claimed to have located a lady who had accused Robert Mueller of sexual assault. It led to a tumultuous press conference, during which the purported accuser failed to appear and later claimed she had been duped into attending. Wohl was asked if he was ready to go to federal jail by a reporter at the event.
That could still happen. But for now, he’ll be joining Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell, Sidney Powell, and more as people who tried to help Trump and may wind up literally paying for it.
