Trump Scammed His Supporters Out Of Money.

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4-3-2021

'That's cold blooded': Trump critics stunned by depths president went to as he scammed supporters out of money.

On Saturday, a bombshell report from The New York Times revealed that former President Donald Trump's campaign was deceiving its donors, turning one-time payments into recurring monthly donations without their knowledge by automatically checking the box to do so and making it hard to see on the page confirming the contribution.

This deception led to more than one in ten Trump donors demanding refunds for the money they never agreed for the campaign to take out of their bank accounts.

Stunned commenters on social media blasted the Trump campaign for the sleazy tactic, accusing him of perpetrating a financial scam on the very people who tried to keep him in office.

Trump made widespread use of prechecked boxes to automatically enroll donors into repeating donations — unless they opted out.

In Sept., as Trump faced a cash crunch, those recurring donations began withdrawing *every week*.

___Stacy Blatt was in hospice care last September listening to Rush Limbaugh’s dire warnings about how badly Trump’s campaign needed money. He went online and chipped in $500.

Another $500 was withdrawn the next day then $500 every week through mid-October, without his knowledge.”

____Victor Amelino, a 78-year-old Californian, made a $990 online donation to Mr. Trump in early September via
@WinRed
. It recurred 7 more times, adding up to almost $8,000.

“I’m retired. I can’t afford to pay all that damn money.”

______ An investigation by The New York Times found that Trump supporters who thought they were donating just once were charged over and over by his campaign. Late last year, $64 million was refunded in contributions.

(((BAHAA you vote for a Known con man you get/were conned))

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4-3-2021

Jill Wine-Banks, the former organized crime prosecutor
who was an assistant Watergate special prosecutor.

Donald Trump could face "legal consequences"
for fundraising scams.
The Times reports Trump's campaign made recurring donations the default, then doubled them in an operation nicknamed the 'money bomb,'
unbeknownst to many unsuspecting donors,"

"In this case, what was happening was people would sign up thinking they were donating one time and there would be a little button they didn't see that said to make this monthly, make this weekly, and sometimes it changed from monthly to weekly after they had hit it or had entered the one-time donation amount,"

"Trump is facing so many civil and criminal charges right now that he's going crazy trying to defend himself. He needs full-time law firm, not a full-time lawyer, but he needs a full-time firm to handle all of the cases from the varying --
from Georgia, from the Manhattan D.A., from the New York attorney general, from the District of Columbia, from the policemen who have sued, and civil lawsuits." she explained.
"The New York courts ruled the defamation case can proceed, which means, by the way, that there will be under oath depositions, the president is going to have to testify, the former president, he has absolutely no way to evade any longer."

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4-6-2021

Campaign finance experts tear into Trump's 'complete ripoff' of donors:
'It started to look like fraud'.

On Tuesday, Business Insider profiled a number of campaign finance experts weighing in on the scandal surrounding former President Donald Trump's
"pre-checked" option bilking supporters of far more money than they ever intended to donate.

"I've never seen anyone do what the Trump campaign just did,"
"This is a complete ripoff, they knew exactly what they were doing. They knew they were tricking people into signing up for what they thought was one contribution, when they were really signing up for multiple contributions.

Then when they got caught, they sent the money back. It's like if a bank robber got caught and said, 'Oh, well, I gave the money back.'"
He suggested that the arrangement amounted to elder abuse, given the number of retirees who fell for the scheme after not reading the fine print closely.

"Groups do this all the time in a non-toxic way, and of course Trump, being Trump, did this 72 million times in the wrong direction, and it started to look like fraud,"
Common Cause' National Director of Money and Politics Beth Rotman.

The report added that experts were less clear on whether any crime was committed, as the law allows these setups because Trump technically disclosed what he was doing — he just tried to divert the eye from the details on his website. The former president denies any wrongdoing.

"Elderly donors who gave a few hundred dollars to former President Donald Donald Trump's reelection campaign were shocked to see thousands drained from their accounts," noted the report.

"Refund requests spiked in the final months of the campaign. The ensuing surges in credit card fraud claims associated with Trump even got on the radar of the US' biggest banks."

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