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applegrove

(118,006 posts)
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 03:44 PM Apr 2021

GOP Goes Full Psychopath, Threatens to "Tell Trump" About Supporters Who Won't Pony Up Donations

GOP Goes Full Psychopath, Threatens to “Tell Trump” About Supporters Who Won’t Pony Up Donations


APRIL 7, 2021 6:27 PM

BY Bess Levin at Vanity Fair

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/gop-trump-defector-threat/amp

"SNIP......

Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that over the course of the 2020 election, the Trump campaign ripped off unwitting supporters for tens of millions of dollars. It did so through an extremely simple yet wildly deceitful scheme in which the default option for donations authorized the campaign to transfer the pledged amount from people’s bank accounts not once but every single week. Later, the campaign introduced a second prechecked box that doubled a person’s contribution and was known internally as a “money bomb.” In order for people to have picked up on this before it was too late, they would have had to wade through “lines of text in bold and capital letters that overwhelmed the opt-out language.” Few people did, hence why the two and half months leading up the the election, the Trump campaign, the RNC, and their shared accounts were forced to issue a whopping 530,000 refunds worth $64.3 million to online donors, compared to the 37,000 online refunds of $5.6 million that Joe Biden‘s campaign and his equivalent Democratic committees refunded. “Bandits!” Victor Amelino, a 78-year-old Californian whose $990 donation turned into nearly $8,000, told the Times of the scheme, and you can probably understand why!

Yet apparently, Republicans associated with Donald Trump have not changed their tactics in light of the very bad press; they’ve upped the ante. By which we mean that in addition to continuing to use prechecked boxes to bilk supporters, they’re threatening to rat out anyone who doesn’t agree to recurring donations to the ex-president.

Per the Times:

The political arm of House Republicans is deploying a prechecked box to enroll donors into repeating monthly donations—and using ominous language to warn them of the consequences if they opt out: “If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Trump you’re a DEFECTOR.”

The language appears to be an effort by the National Republican Congressional Committee to increase its volume of recurring donations, which are highly lucrative, while invoking former President Donald J. Trump’s popularity with the conservative base. Those donors who do not proactively uncheck the box will have their credit cards billed or bank accounts deducted for donations every month.


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GOP Goes Full Psychopath, Threatens to "Tell Trump" About Supporters Who Won't Pony Up Donations (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2021 OP
"we will have to tell Trump you're a DEFECTOR." LuckyLib Apr 2021 #1
What is the murdering pig going to do? So ridiculous. onecaliberal Apr 2021 #4
These idiots will most likely leave that box checked! CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2021 #2
Doesn't that qualify as coercion? grumpyduck Apr 2021 #3
Recurring Trump donors DESERVE to be fleeced. ProudMNDemocrat Apr 2021 #5
I hope 90% of Republicans refuse to contribute at all wryter2000 Apr 2021 #6
I hope they do contribute ..he keeps the money and fleeces other qgop candidates out of cash PortTack Apr 2021 #8
"I'm telling Donny!" Blue Owl Apr 2021 #7
Can they get more pathetic? pwb Apr 2021 #9
Don't tempt them wryter2000 Apr 2021 #10
Is this real? EndlessWire Apr 2021 #11
I try to be sympathetic, XanaDUer2 Apr 2021 #12
This is criminal and should be getting way more coverage malaise Apr 2021 #13
Professional Fraud Kid Berwyn Apr 2021 #14

LuckyLib

(6,814 posts)
1. "we will have to tell Trump you're a DEFECTOR."
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 03:48 PM
Apr 2021

This is sick. Symptomatic of the entire right wing Republican cabal.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,296 posts)
2. These idiots will most likely leave that box checked!
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 03:49 PM
Apr 2021

Unchecking it is for sissies!

How stupid can they get? There's no limit, apparently.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,468 posts)
5. Recurring Trump donors DESERVE to be fleeced.
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 04:13 PM
Apr 2021

Drain their Babk accounts and Credit Cards. They probably don't read their statements anyway.

Stupid is as stupid does.

wryter2000

(46,016 posts)
6. I hope 90% of Republicans refuse to contribute at all
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 04:15 PM
Apr 2021

Seems likely a lot of them won't have anything to do with this.

pwb

(11,204 posts)
9. Can they get more pathetic?
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 06:00 PM
Apr 2021

This is suppose to make the scam seem normal. Doubling down on being caught.

EndlessWire

(6,373 posts)
11. Is this real?
Fri Apr 9, 2021, 08:03 PM
Apr 2021

Isn't this illegal?

What's The One Who Can't Be Mentioned gonna do? And, they think he's coming back to get even?

Free yourselves! Uncheck that box! Why are you giving your money to this LOSER?

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