Former President Trump is urging Republicans to donate directly to him instead of the GOP

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Business Insider

[e-mail] (Julie Gerstein) 1 hr ago

Former President Donald Trump is trying to siphon donations away from the Republican National Committee and into his political action committee fund.

Trump, who recently flirted with starting his own political party, dubbed The Patriot Party, sent a letter warning donors to avoid supporting RINOs, or Republicans In Name Only.

. . .

"No more money for RINOS. They do nothing but hurt the Republican Party and our great voting base - they will never lead us to Greatness," his tweet-length statement said. "Send your donation to Save America PAC at DonaldJTrump.com. We will bring it all back stronger than ever before!"

Fine print on the site clarifies that the Save America joint fundraising committee donates 90% of its funds to Save America PAC, with 10% going to MAGA PAC. Neither PAC is directly affiliated with the Republican party.

Trump's Save America PAC has raised more than $31 million, according to OpenSecrets.com.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-president-trump-is-urging-republicans-to-donate-directly-to-him-instead-of-the-gop/ar-BB1eonfn?li=BBnb7Kz

[Mike Nelson]

1. Well...

... could he be more obvious?

[sheilahi]

37. sad

The sad thing is these fools are probably going to send their stimulus checks to him. "A fool and his money are soon parted".

[Sibelius Fan]

2. The grift never ends.

[BlueMTexpat]

10. Great minds!

That was absolutely my first thought too!

Eta: I LOVE your name! I also had the pleasure of visiting the Sibelius Monument in Helsinki firsthand in 2019 - the last year I could travel easily!

[Judi Lynn]

12. So great seeing two Sibelius fans in this thread. I'm the third. Powerful composer. So well loved. ❤️️

[BlueMTexpat]

40. I've loved his thrilling

music since forever!

[PoliticAverse]

15. There is still something that hasn't been gold plated yet... n/t

[joshdawg]

3. And there will be a number of intellectually challenged

folks who will give their hard-earned money to this slag heap.
Go figure.

[tanyev]

29. Yep. He realized he doesn't even have to mess with cheap wine, steaks or a bogus university.

Just pure unadulterated begging.

[mdbl]

32. Correction: pure unadulterated lying

[Rhiannon12866]

4. He's still in it for the money, always was, has no interest in serving the American people

Having proved that again and again, how he has any supporters totally boggles the mind.

[regnaD kciN]

5. He may not be POTUS anymore, but he's still Grifter-in-Chief...

...in fact, I wouldn't be all that surprised to see him, if he fails to recapture the presidency in 2024, switch gears and become a televangelist. "Visa and Mastercard accepted!"

[UpInArms]

6. Cool

He will bankrupt the GQP ... grifters gotta grift

[ailsagirl]

7. Skip the middleman!!

[Jon King]

8. Meanwhile he golfs, Javanka on a yacht, Don Jr. buying a mansion....

in warm, sunny Florida, while people toiling away send them their hard earned money. The Trump family is now raising the 4th generation of con artists and the mask burning kids of these people will likely send them money.

[xxqqqzme]

9. Legal fees add up fast

Gotta get those letters out so some of that stimulus money finds its way to his pocket.
Melania needs some new stilettos and new porn-folio

[ad121rome]

11. Follow the money

Just follow the money, his only mantra. Mary Trump was completely right, he has zero morals or ethics. Anybody who believes otherwise is a fool.

[UCmeNdc]

13. The real stupid politicians are the GOP leadership. The GOP leaders are really the main idiots.

Someone should let them in on the long con. They seem to be unable to see it for themselves.

[mdbl]

35. Stupid is as stupid does

[KS Toronado]

41. I believe they know & see it alright

They're just really scared of saying anything negative about him because of the gun loving Qrumpers.

[kaotikross]

14. This can only help us though.

The more chaos the powerless buffoon sows among the GQP the better for us. Besides, they explicitly wanted this, they've have numerous chances to be rid of the lodestone yet they cling to it like manna from Heaven. This is a good thing. The more insane they are the more the majority who are reasonable want nothing to do with them.

[machoneman]

31. Yes! I agree! The more money they donate to the SuperGrifter the better I say. Aside from emptying..

...the 401K's, bank accounts, sock drawers of those deplorable snowflakes, giving to him reduces, dollar for dollar, monies the GOP could use to support candidates and incumbents for the next election cycle. Since we already know none of that money would be used prior to the mid-terms to reelect or support the GOP's preferred candidates, we win!

I do hope though that somehow those ill-received gains get forfeited by a ruling in a court of law as Trumpy is sentenced to prison. The schadenfreude will hang heavy over the good old USA as we cheer mightily at his incarceration day! So much winning!

[PatSeg]

34. Yes, in a sense Trump is doing us a favor

He is destroying the republican party and they have helped him do it! The republican party is experiencing the inevitable consequences of supporting a vulgar con artist for four years. Did they honestly believe there would be no price to pay? They should have seen it coming.

[AZ8theist]

16. I LAUGHED MY ASS OFF when I read this headline....

You have to be some kind of stupid to give money to this clown!!!

"Dear Rubes, The money you donate to my Super PAC will end up DIRECTLY in my personal bank account. It will be used, among other things, to pay lawyers to keep me out of prison for the numerous crimes I've committed over the course of my life. It will also be used to pay off the Russian oligarch criminals to whom I owe lotsa money to. Since each and every one of you, along with many, many others know that I am the greatest business man in history, the greatest deal maker, the money will be put to good use making ME GREAT AGAIN!!!"

[twodogsbarking]

17. There was a huge party greeting Trump upon his NY return.

One.
No shit.
Probably someone he owes money to.

[durablend]

18. It's obvious, isn't it?

"SEND ME YOUR STIMULUS MONEY SO YOU CAN STICK IT TO TEH LIBS!"

[Vinca]

19. This must be the first honest thing he's done in his life. Guess he realized his followers are

so bloody stupid he doesn't have to pull off an elaborate grift.

[twodogsbarking]

21. Stupid is the plan

and it works most of the time. Throw poor on top and you have a Republican sundae.

[Botany]

20. Ah yes. Let me tell you about how you can help me to help you.

"Fine print on the site clarifies that the Save America joint fundraising committee
donates 90% of its funds to Save America PAC, with 10% going to MAGA PAC.
Neither PAC is directly affiliated with the Republican party."

[Lonestarblue]

22. All those Republicans who refused to convict Trump (twice) should have known this was coming.

All they had to do was convict him after the January 6 insurrection, and he would not have been able to con people into giving money for his next presidential race. He could still have set up a PAC, but only to support other candidates, and I doubt many of them would have seen much money. But now he can raise all kinds of money for his 2024 presidential run. And whatever he siphons away from the RNC means less money for the very incumbents who allowed him to operate as president, and now as the real head of the Republican Party, with no controls whatsoever on anything he wanted to do. I never thought Republicans in Congress, especially in the Senate, were quite that stupid.

I hope that his legal cases will be enough to convince him not to run again, but I’m not sure they will. I do not see him going to jail (though that’s what I would like) simply because he is a former president. Although, perhaps the former president of France being sentenced to jail might inspire juries here. That needs to be publicized more.

Once his investigations and trials are out of the way, there’s really nothing to stop him from running in 2024. Republican voters obviously do not care that he’s a crook, and they would just claim that the legal system was against him and it was all made up evidence. I’m not sure that anything short of total dementia or death can stop him. Remember when Reagan was called the Teflon President? Trump has gotten away with even more. The press certainly let him slide a lot, but the difference now is that Trump has convinced millions of people that only he tells the truth and “tells it like it is.” That is even harder to overcome because his followers do not believe in facts or reality. These people may not be a majority, but their numbers are enough to make elections a nightmare, especially with the extreme voter suppression Republicans are putting in place.

[Norbert]

23. Who needs Deutsche Bank when you have a slew of gullible MAGAts

rump may help us yet gain a senate seat in Ohio.

[dalton99a]

24. Why not? They gave him $255.4 million in 8 weeks

to file a bunch of meaningless lawsuits

[myohmy2]

25. stop the subsidizing...

...the wall street boys will send their plunder to the RNC while the rubes will send their nickels and dimes to trump...

...we've got the power of the purse...we need to figure out ways to tax and limit benefits to red states while enhancing benefits to the blue...

...let the trumpkins spend their lunch money on healthcare instead of trump...

...it's only fair...

[Maxheader]

26. Little baby gonna cry ...

When nuthin substantial drops in the hat..Maybe start to see

it's all over.....

[Maeve]

27. Y'all do that!

Let him spend your money, see how that turns out!

[irisblue]

28. did apricothellbeast really ask ppl to send the stimulus checks to him?

(not finding solid info on this Spring 2021)

Link to tweet

[malthaussen]

30. When Bob Heinlein received the check for his first short story...

... he said "This is easy, why didn't somebody tell me about this before?"

Mr Trump has apparently discovered that pretending to be a politician is a better cash cow than any scam he has ever run in his life.

Which should give us all pause.

-- Mal

[Bengus81]

33. They coddled that poser CON MAN for four years,did they expect different?

I love it,send ALL your cash to Donnie so he can pay off hundreds of millions of debt he owes!!

[bucolic_frolic]

36. What's he gonna run on - universal amnesty for traitors?

Tax credits for insurrectionists' legal bills?

[JohnnyRingo]

38. Are people that stupid?

Never mind, I just remembered the last four years.

[colsohlibgal]

39. Dumb Fleecing Dumb

They’ll empty their bank accounts for their bulbous orange Con Man.

Doubt that will slow all that much even when he’s thrown into Prison.

[Kid Berwyn]

42. Goldbricker

The man with the Midas Touch in reverse.

[Paladin]

43. Once a con artist, always a con artist.

The idiots who give their money to him deserve to lose it.