I cannot fathom the thinking of any party investing in the new company of a convicted fraudster.
Exactly! Any knowledgeable observer would have expected him to run for elected office instead.
Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying
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Re: Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect the person you replied to was being subtly sarcastic. edit: but honestly, I'm not sure.
It's hard for me to tell because I've seen this multiple times in my career (in tech). People wasting investors' money getting funding over and over while those actually building stuff get suppressed. I swear there are some people who control a lot of money who are just having fun ruining people's lives for laughs. There are people who spend years working for some company, betting their career on it but it turns out…
Thanks for the reply.
The only thing I can add (regarding the motivations of people willing to invest with a fraudster) is that many people invest with the belief that they'll make money because they are just part of the scam and they assume there's a greater fool somewhere down the line.
But that's probably obvious.
Re: Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying
#83> Trevor Milton’s conviction for defrauding investors in truck company Nikola was wiped away Best justice money can buy. > He’s now raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying With his history building the "truck that can roll unpowered down a hill" I shudder to think just how his jet would transform flying.
One insight might be that airlines and aircraft manufacturers get bailed out often.
Re: Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying
#84Says a lot about whether you can trust the WSJ.
Why would you say that? The article was basically a hit piece on the guy. "We can trust you" was a quote from an associate, as you surely remember from when you read the whole article.
Messaging is attention-weighted. It always has been, but the exploitation of this fact has been on the rise and in 2026 everyone should know it and internalize the consequences: if you signal boost statement A and bury nuance B, you are promoting statement A, flat out, completely independent of what B brings to the table.
Re: Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
'We Can Trust You Now' is a quote in the story from the subject. The subject himself claims: “I walk into meetings now, and I’ll get high-fives from the most wealthy people in the world,” he said. “They’re like, ‘Welcome to the club. You can withstand the fire. We can trust you now.’” The WSJ interviewed him and is reporting information about his past. I think the article portrays him as extremely shady and untrustwo…
There's a school of thought that reporting on a bad person without coming out and saying "this is a bad person" is akin to endorsing that person. Myself, I think people are mature enough to be able to read past a headline and come away from this with a clear eyed view of this fraudster.
> I think people are mature enough to be able to read past a headline
What trainwreck of misconceptions could possibly compel an otherwise reasonable person to believe something so ridiculous?
Re: Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying
#86Just for once I want "CEO convicted of fraud making their comeback" to come back with some really boring business. Like, I want Elizabeth Holmes to serve out her sentence then come out swinging to raise funds to vertically integrate pallet construction.
I feel like part of the secret to being that type of CEO is that whatever your business is, you can spin it into something "oh my god, much wow". Like it won't be just "vertically integrating pallet construction", it'll be "a heartwarming revolution in the construction of pallets, now with AI and blockchain". Kind of like how TFA mentions that Milton's new SyberJet will "pioneer AI flight".
This could make a funny bit as well now that I think of it, advertise your new enterprise as an AI NFT Blockchain Distributed Pallet Revolution but under the hood it's just a sensible Harvard Business School rollup.
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#87Re: Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you say that? The article was basically a hit piece on the guy. "We can trust you" was a quote from an associate, as you surely remember from when you read the whole article.
Messaging is attention-weighted. It always has been, but the exploitation of this fact has been on the rise and in 2026 everyone should know it and internalize the consequences: if you signal boost statement A and bury nuance B, you are promoting statement A, flat out, completely independent of what B brings to the table.
"We can trust you now" has quotations marks in the title. That means a verbatim quote from a source. Sure, messaging should be clear, but we must expect basic reading comprehension and jornalistic literacy from people that participate in a place like a Computer Science forum, while reading The Wall Street Journal.
Re: Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
This guy is a crook. Every adjective you could use to describe this guy goes against my core values.
I suspect the person you replied to was being subtly sarcastic. edit: but honestly, I'm not sure.
I thought I was laying on the sarcasm pretty thick. But I guess it’s harder and harder to tell these days!
Re: Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying
#90On top of the fraud convictions, Trevor Milton was credibly accused of sexual assault by his own cousin and a girl he employed. Both victims were minors at the time. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/two-women-file-sexual-abuse-...
I guess we know how he managed to get the funding.