How (the other guy) Fleeced His Own Supporters
How Trump Fleeced His Own Supporters
April 3, 2021 at 1:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 230 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2021/04/03/how-trump-fleeced-his-own-supporters/
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New York Times: Facing a cash crunch and getting badly outspent by the Democrats, the campaign had begun last September to set up recurring donations by default for online donors, for every week until the election. Contributors had to wade through a fine-print disclaimer and manually uncheck a box to opt out.
As the election neared, the Trump team made that disclaimer increasingly opaque, an investigation by The New York Times showed. It introduced a second prechecked box, known internally as a money bomb, that doubled a persons contribution. Eventually its solicitations featured lines of text in bold and capital letters that overwhelmed the opt-out language.
The tactic ensnared scores of unsuspecting Trump loyalists retirees, military veterans, nurses and even experienced political operatives. Soon, banks and credit card companies were inundated with fraud complaints from the presidents own supporters about donations they had not intended to make, sometimes for thousands of dollars.
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