Joel Arends, Veterans for a Strong America founder makes comments before introducing Republican presidential hopeful Donald J. Trump aboard the USS Iowa in San Pedro on September 12, 2015. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow exposed the Òveterans groupÓ using an appearance by Donald Trump as a fundraiser as an apparent one-man organization. Besides having only $30 cash in hand and $318 in debts, the organizationÕs only member is founder Joel Arends. ÒDonald Trump was not in the military, but he did use a pretty military backdrop tonight to raise money for a non-existent veteransÕ group, which endorsed him formally as part of his introduction Ñ and he said they have hundreds of thousands of members,Ó she said. ÒAnd they donÕt. And so the whole thing is fake," Maddow said. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI