3-11-2022
Trump told followers to donate for a chance to win
a dinner with him — then never picked a winner.
On Friday, Rolling Stone reported that former President Donald Trump appears not to have ever followed through on a promotional prize he was pledging to award one of his supporters in return for political donations.
"Former President Donald Trump in recent weeks asked his supporters for money as part of a promotion to eat dinner with him in New Orleans last Saturday.
The only problem was that no one actually got
to eat dinner with Trump, The Post reported Friday, citing four people familiar with the matter," reported William Vaillancourt.
"A series of email pitches to small-dollar donors offered up what any loyal Trump supporter would undoubtedly appreciate.
'__We’ll cover your flight. We’ll cover your very nice hotel.
We’ll cover your dinner, all you have to do is enter.'"
"It’s unclear how much money the pitches raised
for Save America PAC, the former president’s political action committee, or how many people donated," noted the report.
"But similar contests brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars, people involved with them told the Post."
According to Trump spokesman Tyler Budowich,
due to an administrative error in this individual circumstance, the contest winner was not properly notified for last weekend’s event in New Orleans,” and that a "substitute prize" will be given to the winner instead.
Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich admitted that
no prize was ever awarded.
However, this is not the first time the Trump campaign has found itself at the center of controversy over its fundraising tactics.
Last year, reports revealed that the Trump campaign has had to pay out millions in refunds to donors after deceptively tricking them into a monthly recurring payment by "pre-checking" the option to do so.
He also issued a statement saying, "The story is Fake News about my plane being 'mothballed' in Stewart Airfield in Newburgh it is going through a major scheduled maintenance program, which will be completed in approximately 90 days.
It will then be put back into service."
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/// What’s more amazing: a “billionaire” former president
begging supporters to buy him a new plane, or
his supporters donating to get it built.///
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