Reply With QuoteGuno צְבִי (12-01-2020), Trumpet (12-01-2020)
Racism is a disease
Trump continues to fleece his supporters with Election Defense Fund
'All About the Grift': Trump Reportedly Raises Over $150 Million for Non-Existent 'Election Defense Fund'
"Small donors who give to Trump thinking they are financing an 'official election defense fund' are in fact helping pay down the Trump campaign's debt or funding his post-presidential political operation."
byJake Johnson, staff writer
After bombarding supporters daily with emails blaring lies about the election and soliciting donations to overcome virtually non-existent voter fraud, President Donald Trump's political operation has reportedly raised more than $150 million since November 3, a staggering windfall that is being funneled into a Republican joint fundraising committee and a Trump PAC established to fuel his post-White House activities.
While the Trump team's aggressive emails—sometimes as many as 15 per day—purport to be raising money for an "Official Election Defense Fund" set up to finance the president's flailing legal effort to overturn the election, the fund does not exist.
"The average donor who gives in response to Trump's appeal for funds to 'stop the fraud' likely doesn't realize that their money is actually retiring Trump's debt or funding his leadership PAC."
—Brendan Fischer, Campaign Legal Center
"There is no such account," the Washington Post reported late Monday. "The fundraising requests are being made by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, a joint fundraising committee that raises money for the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee. As of November 18, that committee also shares its funds with Save America, a new leadership PAC that Trump set up in early November and which he can use to fund his post-presidency activities."
Observers said the post-election fundraising initiative has all the markings of a shameless grift, with much of the money likely going toward paying off the Trump campaign's debts, financing events at the president's properties, and other purposes. The Post noted that "there are very few limitations on how money going to" the Trump leadership PAC can be spent.
Brendan Fischer, director of federal reform at the Campaign Legal Center (CLC), told the Post that "small donors who give to Trump thinking they are financing an 'Official Election Defense Fund' are in fact helping pay down the Trump campaign's debt or funding his post-presidential political operation."
"The average donor who gives in response to Trump's appeal for funds to 'stop the fraud' likely doesn't realize that their money is actually retiring Trump's debt or funding his leadership PAC," Fischer said, pointing out that "only bigger donors who've maxed-out to Trump's campaign or the RNC will see any portion of their contribution go to dedicated recount or legal funds."
Buried in the fine print of the early barrage of Trump's post-election fundraising emails, as Common Dreams reported last month, was language informing those who read far enough that a percentage of donations would go toward "general election debt retirement."
"According to the fine print in the latest fundraising appeals," the Post reported, "75% of each contribution to the joint fundraising committee would first go toward the Save America leadership PAC and the rest would be shared with the party committee, to help with the party's operating expenses. This effectively means that the vast majority of low-dollar donations under the current agreement would go toward financing the president’s new leadership PAC, instead of efforts to support the party or to finance voting lawsuits."
News of the Trump operation's massive fundraising haul came shortly after two additional battleground states, Wisconsin and Arizona, certified President-elect Joe Biden's victories there and dealt yet another blow to the president's disastrous court fight.
In a tweet late Monday, Rob Flaherty, digital director for the Biden campaign, called Trump's "election defense" fundraising ploy a "plain and simple grift."
Like they say: "A fool and his money are soon parted".
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
Guno צְבִי (12-01-2020), Trumpet (12-01-2020)
Racism is a disease
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
Guno צְבִי (12-01-2020)
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Trump is going to squeeze every dollar he can preying on their gullibility, even though he was President, he hasn't changed that much since his Trump U days
Guno צְבִי (12-01-2020), Trumpet (12-01-2020)
In Yo Face!
I’m happy they’re giving their money to an individual who STOLE from his OWN Charity
Just goes to show there’s on born every minute and Trump will find them
ONE-N-DONE, YOU GOT PLAYED; Time To Play-On
Remember ... ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES ... So STFU Bitch
Guno צְבִי (12-01-2020), Trumpet (12-01-2020)
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Trump Fundraising Amounts to Political Slush Fund
“But the legal fine print on each shows that a new Trump fundraising arm, Save America, actually will get the first cut of any money that comes in. And because spending rules for leadership PACs are so loose, campaign-finance experts warn that Save America could easily become a political slush fund for Trump and those close to him.”
https://politicalwire.com/2020/11/24...al-slush-fund/
Lock Him Up
Phantasmal (12-01-2020)
Racism is a disease
I heard that donations took a dive after AG Barr made his statement of NO EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD IN THE 2020 ELECTION.Originally Posted by Trumpet
Trump needs to keep the Voter Fraud Hoax alive so his stupid minions will keep donating.
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
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That's very true, but also, you know that this is just another Trump scam; this money is headed for Trump's pocket.I heard that donations took a dive after AG Barr made his statement of NO EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD IN THE 2020 ELECTION.
Trump needs to keep the Voter Fraud Hoax alive so his stupid minions will keep donating.
Lock Him Up
Racism is a disease
Of course. Trump never met a fleecing scam he didn't like.
And it's sweet justice that he's fleecing his own base out of millions. Less money for them to spend on meth and Bud Light.
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
Trumpet (12-02-2020)
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