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She pulled a fast one on MAGA — and paid off her medical debt
A Blank Book Exposed a Very Full Political MachineA tiny prank, a real diagnosisRihanna Teixeria self-published a Trump-praising Christian book that turned out to be blank pages. Some MAGA buyers felt duped and vented online. The book sold about 1,000 copies in two months, enough for Teixeria to clear roughly $4,000 in medical debt. That is the whole surface story. The deeper story is uglier: a political movement built on performative faith, cheap grievance, and purchasable loyalty got tricked by its own appetite.Power was never with the buyersThe people holding actual institutional power…
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