Twitter Impersonator of Trump Family Members Arrested for Fraud
A cardboard cutout of then-President Donald Trump at a rally in Lexington, Kentucky in 2019.
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The law finally caught up with a 22-year-old who raised thousands of dollars for a phony political organization by impersonating family members of then-President Donald J. Trump on social media sites.
Joshua Hall, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with wire fraud and identity theft for getting hundreds of people to send him money for the political group, supposedly for the purpose of getting Trump re-elected. Federal prosecutors in New York claim Hall used the money for personal expenses.