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GOP Goes Full Psychopath, Threatens to Tell Trump About Supporters Who Wont 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 peoples bank accounts not once but every single week. Later, the campaign introduced a second prechecked box that doubled a persons 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 Bidens 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; theyve upped the ante. By which we mean that in addition to continuing to use prechecked boxes to bilk supporters, theyre threatening to rat out anyone who doesnt 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 donationsand using ominous language to warn them of the consequences if they opt out: If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Trump youre 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. Trumps 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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LuckyLib
(6,814 posts)This is sick. Symptomatic of the entire right wing Republican cabal.
onecaliberal
(32,471 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)Unchecking it is for sissies!
How stupid can they get? There's no limit, apparently.
grumpyduck
(6,197 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,468 posts)Drain their Babk accounts and Credit Cards. They probably don't read their statements anyway.
Stupid is as stupid does.
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)Seems likely a lot of them won't have anything to do with this.
PortTack
(32,605 posts)Blue Owl
(49,902 posts)pwb
(11,204 posts)This is suppose to make the scam seem normal. Doubling down on being caught.
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)They can find a way.
EndlessWire
(6,373 posts)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?
XanaDUer2
(10,327 posts)but it's difficult at times
malaise
(267,787 posts)ReTHUGs are now a criminal enterprise
Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)Thanks, Putin!