Trump Donors Fume Over Fine Print Which Allowed Campaign to Charge Their Accounts Over and Over
"In the final weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump’s campaign was in dire need of a cash influx to combat the Biden campaign’s ad buys. The solution, according to a bombshell Saturday report from Shane Goldmacher of The New York Times, was to insert language into donor agreements that set up increasingly opaque recurring charges to donors’ accounts.
Described as an “intentional scheme to boost revenues,” donors had to read through the donation disclaimer’s fine print in order to understand precisely how much money they would be giving to Trump’s campaign. The disclaimer contained several pre-checked provisions which granted the Trump campaign permission to take additional funds from donors’ accounts as time went on. That meant potential donors had to actively scroll through the disclaimer and actively uncheck specific boxes in order to make a simple one-time donation."
From the original NY Times report:
"But for some Trump supporters like Ron Wilson, WinRed is a scam artist. Mr. Wilson, an 87-year-old retiree in Illinois, made a series of small contributions last fall that he thought would add up to about $200; by December, federal records show, WinRed and Mr. Trump’s committees had withdrawn more than 70 separate donations from Mr. Wilson worth roughly $2,300.
“Predatory!” Mr. Wilson said of WinRed. Like multiple other donors interviewed, though, he held Mr. Trump himself blameless, telling The Times, “I’m 100 percent loyal to Donald Trump.”
These people are so deep in this cult that even after Trump has cleaned out their bank accounts, they STILL support him.
All these people probably should have watched fake news CNN because they literally showed the fine print while it was happening.
They also showed a fine print stating the money could be used for whatever the PAC chooses. AKA legal fees that Trump filed challenging election results or even legal fees regarding legal issues against him.
So theoretically the money they donated could be going to Trump's defense against his sexual assault accusers.
"In what seemed to be an effort to bolster political contributions in the heat of the 2020 election against now President Joe Biden, the Trump 2020 campaign reportedly duped supporters into making recurring donations without their explicit or known consent.
An investigation of Federal Election Commission records done by the New York Times found that the Trump campaign, in the last two months of 2020, was forced to give hundreds of thousands of refunds in the amount of about $64 million. In total the campaign refunded $122 million, the newspaper said.
Many of these accidental repeat donors believed they were signing up to give a one-time contribution, the New York Times reported. Some of the victims of this scheme, like 63-year-old Stacy Blatt, were cancer patients who found themselves unable to pay bills and rent because of the repeated donations to the Trump campaign, the newspaper reported."
Trump's emails were unbelieveable. An email from Jr. would say "I was just in the oval office talking with my father about his best supporters and he brought up your name" or "We were just going over the list of top supporters and my father noticed your name was missing. I told him I would reach out to you for him". It was funny to me but can you imagine how many elderly or simple minded people sent donations because they thought the POTUS knew who they were.
Trump’s Campaign Bilked His Fans Out of Millions Because of Course It Did
"Donald Trump may be a man with a very limited set of talents, but he has learned to apply those talents to masterful effect. His talent is to employ shameless lies to create an image of himself in the media, and then use that media to bilk people.
Typically, a grifter runs up against the limits of public knowledge: Once he is exposed, it becomes progressively more difficult to find new marks. But here is where Trump’s particular genius exceeds all who came before him, and allowed him to operate his scam on a world-historical scale. Trump has always attracted so much media that any particular exposé of his crooked deeds is overwhelmed by the cacophony."
I wouldn't call it "genius" like the author does, but this just, encapsulates my reaction to the story. It's basically watching an abusive relationship these people are in, no matter what he does, no matter how much he scams, ignore those who devoted their careers to him (Pence and Gaetz for example), etc., they still worship him and think he's done nothing to hurt.
If you frame Trump as a mega-church, televangelist it makes a lot more sense. It's not an accident that Trump was associated with God and divine intervention. It also explains why far right Christians disproportionately supported Trump.
Trump campaign ‘repeatedly charged donors without their knowledge’
The man ran a fake University, a fake charity, and he made the RNC buy all the copies of stupid kids book. Cheating you out of money is a feature not a bug.
On the one hand to me it feels like nothing situation where a group of people who were ready and willing to be conned got conned, but in reality his supporters are poor and frankly can't afford any type of monetary loss. Also the children of Trump supporters are innocent and probably living in a worse state because mom and dad gave the rent money to Trump.
Man is it hard to trying to help people who refuse to be helped and go along with Trump.
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