This is how a sleazy organization tries to prey on the unsuspecting and the elderly...

[Nevilledog]

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Lisa Senecal
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This is how a sleazy organization tries to prey on the unsuspecting and the elderly - present an email fundraising ask as a bill that's due. Shameful and 100% on brand for the Trumps.

Oh - Bill Stepien, who tried to play hero before the J6 Committee, has this PAC as a client.
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6:58 AM · Jun 19, 2022

[calimary]

1. Highway robbery.

Very sneaky highway robbery. I bet it gets results too. Exploiting the unsuspecting. That ought to be a crime.

[Martin68]

8. No. it's not highway robbery. It is robbery of the cultist by the cult. A very different phenomenon.

And much easier. You don't have to get up at 5:AM, dress up in a weird outfit with a mask, load your two one-shot pistols, ride hard to a junction, and wait for a wealthy-looking coach to come by.

[Journeyman]

2. Weren't his online fundraising efforts defaulting to recurring payments, not one time only? . . .

I remember that being the case in late summer, 2020. The PAC or his campaign or where ever the grift was coming from had to make right and repay the marks. Hopefully, there'll be a repeat with this grift.

[Ziggysmom]

3. Not feeling sorry for any repubes. They signed up for this voluntarily. The sad truth is people

are stupid and gullible. tRumpy preyed on that weakness and continues to do so.
Worse than the dummies that send televangelists their money.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

5. Some are old & addled, ie: my 93 yr old dad. Herman Cain almost had my (now deceased)

Dad leaving him his property, etc. Holy shit, the pressure techniques his "campaign" was using. This was evangelism on steroids - they were after whatever he had. Luckily we, as a family, realized what was happening and stepped in.

[Ziggysmom]

11. Agree, sorry I did not consider the vulnerable, innocent folks out there. I let my disgust

and intense dislike of repugs take over my central processing unit. Please forgive my post.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

14. No apologies needed. My Dad was a right wing racist, always was.

He must have been falling for increasingly high pressure "donation" pitches, until Herman Cain's campaign figured they had hooked a fish, and I'm sure they knew all about him. GOP stands for Grifting Old People, because that's how they roll.

[calimary]

13. OMG! Fucking pirates!

Glad you stopped them, AnotherMother4Peace!

[DET]

4. Who falls for this crap?

Yup, I got this or a similar scam email recently. I don’t know how I got on this grifter’s email list, but I haven’t unsubscribed because 1. In my experience, it doesn’t work, and 2. I find it interesting to see what his latest scam is.

[Skittles]

6. honestly

I cannot feel sympathy for anyone afraid of losing their status in "Trump Membership"

fuck them

[2naSalit]

7. Wire fraud?

[DFW]

9. This was very frequent here in Germany about 20 years ago

Fictitious "companies" posing as Telekom clones used to send "bills" for inclusion/listing in an official-sounding phone book directory, or a similar-sounding fax directory. When called out, they called it "free speech," and pointed out that no one was at all required to pay. Never mind that to people who didn't read the fine print, it sure as hell looked like they were required to pay. The German govenment went along with the "free speech" argument for a while, but then shut the scammers down when the outcry got loud enough, and the elderly parents of too many prominent people got scammed.

[FakeNoose]

10. Thanks, I've just renewed MY membership in Keep America Trumpless

[Delphinus]

12. Oh,

I like this!