The former president has hailed True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht from his campaign rallies and invited her to Mar-A-Lago, and the former PTA mom-turned-Tea Party activist's efforts to turn up fraud have been the subject of the feature film, "2000 Mules," by right-wing provocateur Dinesh D'Souza, but a new investigation by Reveal turned up evidence of self-dealing by her nonprofit organization.

“This certainly looks really bad,” said Laurie Styron, executive director of CharityWatch, who reviewed the findings.

Reveal's investigation showed True the Vote gave questionable loans to Engelbrecht and awarded contracts to companies run by her and partner Gregg Phillipps, who serves on the organization's board, and within days of receiving a $2.5 million donation to stop the certification of the 2020 election gave much of that money to a company owned by the couple and the law firm owned by conservative heavyweight James Bopp Jr. -- the organization's general counsel.,,,,

However, experts questioned whether the group, whose only recent employee is Engelbrecht, established a proper structure and policies to protect against self-dealing, and its small board of directors has multiple conflicts of interest.

This will not be the first time, or even the third or eighth time, you have read about Cathy Engelbrecht here at the beauty salon. She’s been on our radar for ten years when she was speaking in church basements and VFW halls in the Houston area, pushing the idea that it’s too damn easy to vote. She would get the attendees name and addresses, mostly very old people, and send them requests for money. She didn’t like my questions and quickly named me “that woman” and told people I was a reporter as she rolled her eyes.

She had difficulty giving me any examples of the horror of illegal voting that she claimed was killing America. I could give her a couple of examples that happened right in her neighborhood, but they were both Republicans. She quickly informed me that she wasn’t talking about just two people, she was talking about hundreds, thousands. She just didn’t know any of them.

And then the third example hit. The Republican man she was personally supporting for county commissioner voted in two states for three elections and I had his signature to prove it. I wrote about it in the newspaper and he was defeated soundly.

I once described her as an attractive woman with a dollar sign on her forehead. She always had her hand out. She was far more concerned with raising money than illegal voting.

And now the Washington Post says she’s being sued for taking $2 million from a donor and producing the same thing I saw her produce – diddle squat.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did. If you do read it don’t get excited and skip over the part where she’s mattress thrashing with a member of her board of directors. Look, I don’t want to slut shame another woman, but she rolled her eyes at me and that gives me a free shot. I’m taking it.

This will be fun to watch