Is Donald Trump ever going to be president again?

 TRUMP HAS REPORTEDLY BEEN TELLING PEOPLE HE’S GOING TO BE PRESIDENT AGAIN BY AUGUST, WHICH WOULD SUGGEST HE’S PLANNING A COUP (OR HAS FULLY DESCENDED INTO MADNESS)

In theory, should he set aside the fact that he actually hated being president, and decide to run again in 2024, and should tens of millions of Americans lose their minds and cast their votes for a wannabe dictator who is probably at this moment ranting to a garden hose about how he beat Joe Biden, he could make his way back to the White House in January 2025. Is he going to be president as early as this August? No! Obviously! Why? Well, there’s the minor matter of the fact that Biden‘s first term doesn’t expire for another 1,329 days, making it impossible for Trump to take over any time before then, unless he is planning a coup. Which it sounds like he might be, insomuch as one can plan a coup from the omelet station at Mar-a-Lago.

The 1/6 investigation NEEDS to move forward. Two key answers need to be resolved; firstly, why was the National Guard not called in sooner and what was Trump’s knowledge or involvement in that. This is major, because in The Presidential oath of office they are sworn to protect the country and turning his back on an invasion of the Capital is a high crime. Secondly, was Trump in communication with any of the Militia groups that organized the insurrection? To what degree did he know before hand and how much was he involved in and in contact with militia leaders that tried to overthrow the government??

If there is plans for a future coup attempt and Trump has knowledge of it, it should be added to the other mountain of charges he will be facing and not only should he not be allowed to run for a second term but he should also be charged immediately.

This is the most severe crime a President has ever committed against the Country and it must be addressed. He called down insurrection on Congress, while they were in session, resolving the election.

Frankly what he did or didn't know doesn't really matter. He held a rally and ended that rally calling for them to "correct the mistake" Congress was making. Then 20 minutes layer the people invited to that rally sacked Congress while he stood in the White House and did nothing to defend the Congress. He needs convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for insurrection and sedition... then put in the darkest solitary hole the Federal prisons have.

Democrats need to hold the budget hostage and threaten to shut the entire country down to make that happen and get another impeachment thru the Senate with UNANIMOUS conviction. It's that serious.

Delusional Former President Is Telling People He Will Be ‘Reinstated’ as President by August, New York Times Journalist Reports

Business Insider notes that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and other anti-democratic conspiracy theorists have been pushing this wacky Hail Mary “in fringe conservative media for several months. It has no basis under the Constitution or any legitimate legal framework.”

First it was Jan 6th, then Jan 20, then early March, and so on and so on. The never-ending grift.

This is Trump’s call to arms. When the indictments fall around that time, he’ll claim the deep state is stopping him from being reinstated (they won’t care that its not possible no matter if fraud is found or not). From now until August, Trump’s whistles to his base will grow louder and they will in turn become louder themselves and more active.

He’s been relatively silent up until now because there wasn’t anything to gain. Now, with charges looming, a full overthrow of the government is all that will keep him out of prison. This is why this August “deadline” is different than the nonsense dates already past. August will be the GQP’s “Big Show”.

Trump is telling people he thinks he'll be 'reinstated' as president in August, according to a report

Haberman, who broke some of the biggest stories of the Trump administration and has been covering him for decades, added that Trump had been "laser focused" on election audits in states whose results he is still trying to overturn.

The anti-democratic conspiracy theory has been bubbling up in fringe conservative media for several months. It has no basis under the Constitution or any legitimate legal framework.

Expect arbitrary timeline announcements like this for the next few years at a minimum. It helps with fundraising and offers just enough emotional validation for the Q nutjobs that he’ll never risk letting them realize it’s never going to happen.

Once August comes and goes, it’ll shift to January or something. And then May. Then it’ll be, “vote Republican so we can regain control of Congress to impeach Biden and replace him with Trump.”

Then we’ll see what real autocratic demagoguery looks like first-hand. It hasn’t even gotten as spicy as it will yet.

January 6th: Congress was going to magically declare Trump President. Failing that, Pence would use non-existent powers to declare Trump the winner. Then there was that insurrection they had which was totally going to result in Trump remaining in office.

January 20th: Inauguration Day was going to see Biden arrested for crimes and Trump ascending to be sworn in.

March 4th: This time the explanation was a convoluted tale about how the US was "incorporated" and all amendments past the 15th were null and void. Since March 4th was the date some past presidents were sworn in, that was when Trump would be sworn in, breaking up the "illegal US corporation."

March 20th: As March 4th approached and it became clear that it wasn't going to pay off, they quickly switched to March 20th as the date that Trump was definitely, absolutely going to become President again.

And now we're on to August as the "it's real this time" date. It would be laughable if the events of January 6th didn't show how dangerous these groups can be.

Lauren Boebert claims no deaths on Covid-19

 Lauren Boebert stated there hadn't been a single COVID-19 death in Texas since mask restrictions ended in March. Data shows thousands had, in fact, died.

“Texas removed their mask mandate two months ago, and Sleepy Joe called it ‘Neanderthal thinking,'” she continued. “No, sir. Republicans are just following the science, and since removing the mask mandate two months ago, Texas has not reported a single COVID death. Not one.”

Every time I see an article about her, I have to tell everyone what a piece of shit she is. A lot of you probably already know, but for those who don’t, here we go:

She tweeted “Save the date: Jan 6, 2021” on December 18, 2020

She gave guided tours the day before the Jan. 6th insurrection***

She live-tweeted Nancy Pelosi’s location during the insurrection***

She tried to use the recent Boulder, CO mass shooting to push her pro-gun agenda

She was cited for reckless driving and driving an unsafe vehicle but never showed up for her court dates***

She has been arrested and screamed at the police that she “knew people at FOX News”

She only finished her GED on the campaign trail, meaning she is uneducated but still in a position that makes legislative decisions for the whole fucking country

She makes her whole personality about guns, even had a restaurant in Rifle, CO called Shooter’s Grill where employees and patrons are encouraged to open-carry

She spreads rampant misinformation on everything every time she opens her mouth or tweets anything, as you can see in the article

Her husband exposed himself to minors at a bowling alley and faced zero consequences (sure, not really her being a piece of shit, but it speaks volumes about what she considers okay and the people she associates with.)

Fuck Lauren Boebert. She is an absolute shitsmear on the state of Colorado and the U.S. House of Representatives.

Edit:

I went through the list again to make sure everything was fact-checked, and there are a few changes and specifications I need to make so I’m not the one spreading rampant misinformation.

House Democrats alleged that a GOP colleague gave guided tours the day before the insurrection, and despite nobody having even pointed fingers at her, she denied it by saying she did not “guide any outside groups of ‘insurrectionists’” So... she admitted to giving guided tours the day before the insurrection. Rep. Steve Cohen later gave an eyewitness statement seeing Boebert give guided tours.

In regards to tweeting Pelosi’s location, she specifically said “The Speaker has been removed from the chambers.” This is still horribly inappropriate as any information to Pelosi’s location during the insurrection could have put her life in danger with the amount of people that were there with violent intentions.

She did not have a DUI, which was my misunderstanding, I’m sorry for not checking this one beforehand. She was cited for reckless driving and driving an unsafe vehicle. She didn’t show up for her court date, was arrested for it, and plead guilty.

Rafael "Ted" Cruz 2024

 Ted Cruz under fire for using anti-gay slur as he continues attacks on US military advert

A spokeswoman for Cruz responded to Stars and Stripes. “Sen. Cruz passionately supports the brave men and women of the United States military and has repeatedly expressed concerns that Democrat politicians, left wing bureaucrats, and the media are politicizing our armed forces to promote a fringe woke agenda based on identity politics,” Erin Perrine wrote in an emailed statement. “Our military should be focused on winning wars, and we endanger our national security and our servicemembers when they focus on anything else.”

He has a plan and that is to cause divide within the ranks of the military. This is getting people ready to use the military in elections. These "Patriots" will turn on their unsuspecting fellow Americans including other soldiers. Divide and Conquer is a strategy as old as war. Let's hope Biden gets these assholes out of our military before it's too late.

Ted Cruz roasted for saying military full of “pansies.” This guy wouldn’t defend his own wife.

"Trump made derogatory comments about Cruz's wife, Heidi, but the senator still cozied up to the former president and became one of his staunchest supporters."

This is getting truly weird. Obviously Cruz cares about how he's perceived, that's why he publicly stuck his tongue all the way up Trump's ass. Still, I honestly don't understand these recent publicity exercises. Then again, I have no idea what goes on in the heads of the MAGA crowd. Cruz looks like he's testing them to see just how much assholery and how many insults to conventional Republican values he can get away with. Apparently there's no limit.

Army leaders praise ‘superstar’ soldier after Sen. Ted Cruz criticizes her recruitment video

Yes, Ted Cruz owes this girl a personal apology. This is a real young woman, who graduated at the top of her class in HS, and chose to raise her hand and enlist in the US Army -- kids like her, "Gen Z-ers" like her, they are part of our military's solution, not the problem.

Ted Cruz roundly criticized after sharing Russian propaganda

"GOP Sen. Ted Cruz received a lot of criticism after sharing a Russian propaganda video on Twitter in an apparent attempt to criticize the idea of a 'woke, emasculated' U.S. military."

And Texas is a huge military state. Ft. Hood, Ft. Bliss, Fort Sam Houston, a shit ton of Air Force bases. And also one of the country's largest National Guard organizations.

I don't get how he keeps getting elected. He shits on our military, kisses the ass of the guy that called his wife ugly and his father a killer, skips out of the state during an ice storm, etc.

How can any self respecting Texan say, this guy really represent what we stand for.

Why it matters that Ted Cruz endorsed Russian propaganda (again)

"In 2019, Ted Cruz faced some pushback after endorsing Russian propaganda for partisan purposes. In 2021, he's done it again."

"A couple of years ago, U.S. officials invested a fair amount of time reminding American elected officials about the dangers of promoting Russian disinformation. In fact, the New York Times reported in November 2019 that U.S. intelligence professionals specifically informed senators and their aides that Russia was engaged in a lengthy campaign "to essentially frame" Ukraine for Moscow's attack against our 2016 elections."

While Ted being a smug troll wouldn't exactly be an unusual event, I think the answer to all this Russia love conservatives have been doing the last few years has a simpler and more straightforward answer: They actually like Russia.

The days of Communism are long gone, and now Russia is basically famous for its entrenched business oligarchy and its government-enforced socially conservative political landscape. All things American conservatives are well-known fans of.

That plus the fact its also well-known that Republican patriotism has always only been skin-deep, it kinda starts to makes sense that they'd warm up to Russia. Its pretty good example of the kind of place they think they'd want to live/rule over.

Russia is to conservatives what the Nordic countries are to progressives. And they are starting to express that in the fashion typical of them: culture war nonsense. Except nows its Russian and American right wing culture vs American liberal culture.

He’s trying to set himself up a presidential campaign in 2024 by mimicking Trump. 

January 6th insurrection

Insurrectionist members have received $2.6 million from corporate interests since January 6th

"In just the first few months since the insurrection, corporate and industry PACs have contributed more than $2.6 million to campaigns, leadership PACs, and party committees allied with the 147 members of Congress who fed the Big Lie that led to the deadly attack on the Capitol. In all, 170 business PACs—some of which had previously committed to stop giving—have donated to political committees that support and defend the members who voted not to certify the election results. 

Corporate political giving has long been a corrupting force in Washington—with lawmakers  depending on it for their political survival, while businesses use the donations to gain access to the officials who make decisions that will impact their bottom line. In the wake of the attack on the Capitol, the situation is worse: Corporate contributions are now increasingly an obstacle to holding elected officials accountable—not only for pushing the baseless conspiracy theories that caused the attack, but also for continuing to make excuses for it. "

The article mentions 228 companies, but does not list them.

How does one boycott the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers (Nationwide and Liberty Mutual, etc) , National Association of Realtors, Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, Mortgage Bankers Associations, American Council of Engineering Companies, Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., or National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies? Ductile Iron Pipe Research Association?

Others to boycott: Koch Industries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries)

PNC? (pnc.com?)

Toyota

AT&T

Pfizer

Jetblue

Cigna

Intel

T-mobile

CVS

US Sugar Corporation, FL Sugar Cane League, American Crystal Sugar

I fully support people individually boycotting these companies. I cannot condone some kind of criminal/terrorist bogeyman/witch-hunt for any entity that wants to fund someone's legal defense for ANY CHARGE, no matter how heinous.

If you strip away people's right to a legal defense you are undermining the entire concept of justice in the US. Restricting access to/causing a chilling effect on ANYONE's ability to pay for legal defense counts as stripping away their right to legal defense entirely.

The more politically charged the crime the more important it is they have access to swap counsel at any time, which outside funding enables. Because are we really to believe a public defender won't face political pressure on something this controversial?

Rep. Tim Ryan Unleashes Fury On GOP Lawmakers Opposed To Jan. 6 Commission

"Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) has had it with the Republican members of the House who attacked a proposed bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that was carried out by pro-Trump insurrectionists. 

After thanking those in the GOP who supported the measure ― 35 Republicans ultimately broke ranks and voted in favor of the commission ― Ryan lit into those who voted against it. 

“Holy cow! Incoherence! No idea what you’re talking about,” Ryan said, his voice rising in anger as he pointed to the most obvious and glaring hypocrisy: the endless Republican-led investigations into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 

“Benghazi!” he said. “You guys chased the former secretary of state all over the country, spent millions of dollars.”"

Bad publicity beats spending time in jail any day.

The only reason they won't cooperate is because they know it will uncover a bunch of Republican politicians were in contact with those inside.

We all watched it. If there isn't repercussions for these politicians for instigating a coup attempt then this country is over. It's going to keep happening.

Make Republicans Talk About the Capitol Riot

"Thirty-five Republicans joined the Democrats who voted unanimously in the House of Representatives on Wednesday to establish a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Now the legislation goes to the Senate, where Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose support would almost certainly have been enough to defeat a filibuster by Republicans hostile to scrutinizing the deadly pro-Trump riot, has decided to oppose it.

I’ve often said that it would usually be counterproductive to force lawmakers to perform filibusters by giving marathon speeches on the Senate floor, the way they do it in the movies but not in real life. But this might be one time where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Democrats might defeat a filibuster by insisting that Republicans hold the floor, or by threatening to do so."

They’re always going to deflect so you have to constantly bring back the conversation to the original subject. I had a run in with a trump dolt a little while back that ended in his self deletion. He said he supported trump and What he says so I held him to that. I told him he should go to his workplace and tell someone who’s not white to go back to their own country. He tried to wiggle out of it with “well they should come here illegally”. Nope. Not what I said. The squad was told to go back to their own country even those most of them were born here. So either you support it and follow through on it, which just makes you a raging shithead racist, or you don’t follow through on it which makes you a coward and hypocrite. Moron stopped responding and deleted his account 20 minutes later.

These people are cowards and losers.

Trump's legacies

 Thanks to Republican Anti-Vaxxers, the U.S. may never reach COVID-19 herd immunity.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given Donald Trump’s refusal to get his own shot in public, and to do the absolute bare minimum when it comes to convincing his base of the importance of getting vaccinated, “vaccine hesitancy“ among Republicans is raging. According to a Monmouth University poll conducted between April 8 and April 12, 43% of GOP respondents said they’ll never get the coronavirus vaccine (versus just 5% of Democrats). In a Quinnipiac University poll, 45% of Republicans said they “don’t plan” on getting the shot. Overall, states that voted for Trump in 2020 are lagging behind those that went for Biden when it comes to vaccinations.

Disturbingly, the focus group revealed that many people refusing to get vaccinated would use a fake vaccination card claiming they had received their shots. “One-thousand percent,” one woman said. “If I have a fake vaccine card, yeah, I can go anywhere,” said one man. Other participants said they‘d use a fake vaccination card to go on trips and attend concerts. Federal officials have warned that they will prosecute Americans who make, sell, or use falsified cards, and noted that the use of such documents could prolong the pandemic by letting unvaccinated people continue to spread the highly contagious virus.

What did everything that Trump did during the last few years have in common? Division. He was divisive on purpose.

What do Russia and China want? Disunion in the US.

He did more damage than 50 years of Cold War with Russia, and 20 years of economic war with China.

It's like a religion with those people. Seriously, between Trumpism, antivaxxers, climate deniers, etc, we might be witnessing the birth of a new and crazier sect of Christianity.

They can't be persuaded with facts, because it isn't about that. It's about belief.

Dan Olson of Folding Ideas infiltrated the Flat Earth movement and detailed to them an experiment he'd personally done to measure the curve of the earth (under the guise of being a true believer). They tried to counter all his points, but he had controlled for all their explanations. Eventually they told him, "Well, you must have done SOMETHING wrong, you need to go home and pray about it."

They literally told him to pray the curve away.

Trump-Appointed Watchdog Finds His Admin. Cheated Puerto Rico on Hurricane Relief, Tried To Hide It

Trump committed genocide on his own people. Twice, at least.

Let the wildfires in California on federal land burn. Refused to let Bahamanians shelter in the US after Hurricane Dorian sat on the islands as a Cat 4 for 24 hours. Tried to withhold Michigan federal disaster relief in exchange for the governor taking a stance against mail-in ballots. Deported sanctuary seekers and other imigrants to places where they were murdered, deported unaccompanied African/Jamaican children to Mexico without Mexico knowing about it. Stop count of ICE deaths. Stopped count of drone deaths. Killed Iranian general (war crime.) Abandoned the Kurds. The coal ash pollution. The delay of medications sent by mail. The VA overseen by three Mar-a-Lago cronies. Stole PPE and ventilators. Sent unusable ventilators to hospitals. Brazilian president visited Mar-a-Lago and his entourage started testing positive for covid after their return. The Capital Gazette mass shooting after all his condemnation of journalists. The coal ash water pollution. The FDA changing the legal level of PFAS allowed in tap water (legal does not mean safe.) The FDA regulation rollbacks that led to multiple recalls of leafy greens infected by e.coli which can cause kidney failure and death. Etc. and etc.

The list is pretty damn long, spanning a wide range of different levels.

Many Trump employees got away with power abuses. Mike Pompeo shouldn't be one of them.

Trump DOES have multiple countries with warrants out for his arrest. Iran and Iraq issued one when he authorized an illegal drone strike on an Iranian military official (Soleimani) who was in the Baghdad International Airport, which is the largest airport in Iraq. Iran responded by launching missiles at US bases in Iraq and wounding 110 US soldiers.

Solemani was designated as a terrorist by the US (and nobody else) because he was working for the Iranian government. He was close to the Supreme Leader of Iran, and trained/helped many Iraq and Syrian backed militias that fought groups like the Taliban, ISIS, and occasionally the US and other foreign invaders. A month prior to Trump's attack, a US general was killed by Kata'ib Hezbollah which is an Iranian backed militia that operates in Iraq. They helped the US overthrow Hussein, but are now labeled a terrorist group after the US attacked one of their bases in 2019.

The only reason Biden is now 'pulling out' of Iraq is because of the terroristic actions committed by the Trump admin, which caused the Iraqi government to kick out US troops. Iran passed a unanimous decision to declare the US government a terroristic organization. It is clear these governments were working together and the US was just interfering in that. Trump turned the volume up to 10 though. That's why he has two warrants out for his arrest.

GOP Bullying the base in to donating monthly

 This is what GOP has become, high school bully in the Capitol.

GOP Threatens to Out Donors as “Defectors” to Trump If They Don’t Give Monthly

This is honestly way more insane than the title suggests. They are literally labelling people as "defectors" for not activating monthly donations. Imagine that. You're trying to give 50$ to the GOP and they hit you with "Oh that's cool, but unless you make that a MONTHLY donation, we'll have to tell daddy Trump you're a DEFECTOR and sided with the dems".

There's so many things to unpack:

• The GOP are totally OK using authoritarian language.
• The GOP have studied the data and decided that making their supporters fear the "wrath of Trump" is the best strategy going forward. This is worrying because that means this strategy is way more effective than we realize. We're joking about it being ridiculous and crazy, but they paid statisticians and marketers to study their demographic and this is their best plan.
• The implication is obviously that something bad would happen to "defectors" if Trump was to be elected in 2024 and you basically have to give monthly bribes donations to the GOP unless you want your name on some list or end up in a deathcamp or stripped of your right to vote.

This has to be illegal in some way? With the violence of language that has been used by Trump and the GOP in the last few years, they're practically insinuating that they will round up everyone who didn't give monthly donations and put them in some death camp once Trump gets elected. Not saying it would actually happen, but that's what they've been telling their supporters they want to do with democrats, and now they're telling them "unless you pay, you're our enemy from now on". And the paradox is that the more people that actually give money, the better chance they have of actually winning in 2024 and there is a good chance they enact even more voter restrictions and find new ways to prevent democrats and "undesirables" from voting.

We really live in a world where people in middle America are living a step above poverty while giving half their discretionary income to some megachurch so the pastor can fly on a private jet when he travels, and half to the GOP so Trump can keep his gold toilet.

I'm amused at the notion of telling people you'll rat them out, but only if they actually pay up first.

If the person chooses not to pay, their info doesn't go to Trump, and he doesn't find out they're "traitors" or whatever.

But of course that'd require critical thinking skills, so I fully expect that box will remain checked, and people will just donate less per month to continue to appease the Manchurian Mango.

Its all about projection. The conservative strategy is to get ahead of criticism by projecting exactly what they're doing onto their opponents with baseless accusations. Then when people say "wait you're doing that!" they claim that their opponents are pulling a "you too!"

The reason for all the Hunter Biden conspiracy nonsense was because Trump's own children were worse than all the accusations against Biden. Trump literally appointed his family to positions of influence in the government, which was what conservatives were claiming Biden was going to do.

The same thing happened in Germany... Germany in the 1920s was a democratic republic, but didn't have any built-in defense mechanism like the current FRG.

So the Nazi's could fairly openly show their disdain for democracy, and for many people that simply meant a return to the time of the Kaiser, return to a time when the German empire was a serious player on the world stage.

Little did they know they'd be getting a PTSD-addled mass murdering dictator who'd bring terror and ruin to the country.

Similarly, a lot of Republican voters just want a return to the glory days of the 50's, when (in their mind) everything was better, and they are willing to sacrifice democracy for it, because (in their mind) only the Republicans can bring back that golden era, so they have to rule.

Grifter Trump grifted campaign donors

 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.

The Trump campaign reportedly cheated donors who thought they were making a one-time contribution, collecting recurring donations

"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.