swindle

He invoked a past prosperity, but his actual plans are to make a fortune by swindling the rest of us.

Bannon's populism is as fake as Trump's, as evidenced by the way he makes money by swindling the working-class Republican voters he claims to champion.

Trump thinks it’s a scam devised by foreigners to swindle Americans into defending them.

If he can’t take out his rage on Se-mi, maybe the pregnant girlfriend of the man who swindled him will suffice.

By the time he was arrested at his Manhattan penthouse in 2008, he had been swindling customers for decades through his wealth management firm.