Now, just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses of 2024, a podcast is investigating the people on Donald Trump’s list of religious leaders. The podcast is a project of IowaFaithLeaderCoalition.com, and is named simply On the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.

The list is not what it at first appears to be, the podcast reports.

The following is from the first episode of the podcast, out today, Empty Chairs in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.

“Back in the day when Twitter was still Twitter, and Twitter still mattered, Donald Trump claimed to have a huge number of Twitter followers. An investigation discovered, however, that at least half of Donald Trump’s supposed followers on Twitter were nothing more than fake accounts that had been purchased from scammers who make money by helping pretenders to make a social media footprint look bigger than it actually is. With so many untraceable names on Donald Trump’s list of supposed faith leaders, it looks as if Trump may be pulling the same dishonest scheme with his Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.”