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[ZiprHead]

How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations

Stacy Blatt was in hospice care last September listening to Rush Limbaugh’s dire warnings about how badly Donald J. Trump’s campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could: $500.

It was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in Kansas City on less than $1,000 per month. But that single contribution — federal records show it was his first ever — quickly multiplied. Another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 the next week and every week through mid-October, without his knowledge — until Mr. Blatt’s bank account had been depleted and frozen. When his utility and rent payments bounced, he called his brother, Russell, for help.

What the Blatts soon discovered was $3,000 in withdrawals by the Trump campaign in less than 30 days. They called their bank and said they thought they were victims of fraud.

“It felt,” Russell said, “like it was a scam.”

Contributors had to wade through a fine-print disclaimer and manually uncheck a box to opt out.

As the election neared, the Trump team made that disclaimer increasingly opaque, an investigation by The New York Times showed. It introduced a second prechecked box, known internally as a “money bomb,” that doubled a person’s contribution. Eventually its solicitations featured lines of text in bold and capital letters that overwhelmed the opt-out language.

The tactic ensnared scores of unsuspecting Trump loyalists — retirees, military veterans, nurses and even experienced political operatives. Soon, banks and credit card companies were inundated with fraud complaints from the president’s own supporters about donations they had not intended to make, sometimes for thousands of dollars.

“Bandits!” said Victor Amelino, a 78-year-old Californian, who made a $990 online donation to Mr. Trump in early September via WinRed. It recurred seven more times — adding up to almost $8,000. “I’m retired. I can’t afford to pay all that damn money.”

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Jebus! Scamming your own supporters.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Jebus! Scamming your own supporters.

At least its in keeping with his character

 

[Ford]

Jebus! Scamming your own supporters.

At least its in keeping with his character

Trump: "I don't need campaign contributions, because I'm really, really rich."

Also Trump: "You don't need your life savings, because I'm really, really broke."

 

[TomC]

Jebus! Scamming your own supporters.

At least its in keeping with his character

Trump: "I don't need campaign contributions, because I'm really, really rich."

Also Trump: "You don't need your life savings, because I'm really, really broke."

Does anybody else remember Trump's big claims about being so rich he didn't need donations? I sure do. Just another hu-u-ge Trump lie, obviously.
Tom

 

[DrZoidberg]

Trump: "I don't need campaign contributions, because I'm really, really rich."

Also Trump: "You don't need your life savings, because I'm really, really broke."

Does anybody else remember Trump's big claims about being so rich he didn't need donations? I sure do. Just another hu-u-ge Trump lie, obviously.
Tom

But he's the greatest liar. Nobody is as good liar as him. He's got the best people

 

[Elixir]

Trump: "I don't need campaign contributions, because I'm really, really rich."

Also Trump: "You don't need your life savings, because I'm really, really broke."

Does anybody else remember Trump's big claims about being so rich he didn't need donations? I sure do. Just another hu-u-ge Trump lie, obviously.
Tom

But he's the greatest liar. Nobody is as good liar as him. He's got the best people

And the biggest brain. A very stable genius who doesn't "do" virtue signaling.

 

[Patooka]

And the biggest brain. A very stable genius who doesn't "do" virtue signaling.

A-brain. He has a very big a-brain.

 

[DrZoidberg]

But he's the greatest liar. Nobody is as good liar as him. He's got the best people

And the biggest brain. A very stable genius who doesn't "do" virtue signaling.

Sounds about right. Can't think of anything virtuous that man has done,

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

But he's the greatest liar. Nobody is as good liar as him. He's got the best people

And the biggest brain. A very stable genius who doesn't "do" virtue signaling.

Sounds about right. Can't think of anything virtuous that man has done,

Does not pardoning the protestors count? My fear was that would be his last parting shot, pardoning the protestors as he left the White House.

 

[LoAmmo]

Does not pardoning the protestors count? My fear was that would be his last parting shot, pardoning the protestors as he left the White House.

Can't count that, because most insurrectionists hadn't been indicted on specific charges yet--certainly not convicted. Charges against many were still pending when Trump's term burned out at noon on Jan.20. Which may very well have been intentional, to thwart specific pardons from the Idiot-In-Chief.

He wouldn't have been able to issue pre-loaded blanket pardons setting aside future rulings that hadn't yet been made.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Does not pardoning the protestors count? My fear was that would be his last parting shot, pardoning the protestors as he left the White House.

Can't count that, because most insurrectionists hadn't been indicted on specific charges yet--certainly not convicted. Charges against many were still pending when Trump's term burned out at noon on Jan.20. Which may very well have been intentional, to thwart specific pardons from the Idiot-In-Chief.

He wouldn't have been able to issue pre-loaded blanket pardons setting aside future rulings that hadn't yet been made.

Why would he pardon them? They didn’t succeed in overturning the election. He owes them nothing.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Does not pardoning the protestors count? My fear was that would be his last parting shot, pardoning the protestors as he left the White House.

Can't count that, because most insurrectionists hadn't been indicted on specific charges yet--certainly not convicted. Charges against many were still pending when Trump's term burned out at noon on Jan.20. Which may very well have been intentional, to thwart specific pardons from the Idiot-In-Chief.

He wouldn't have been able to issue pre-loaded blanket pardons setting aside future rulings that hadn't yet been made.

Why would he pardon them? They didn’t succeed in overturning the election. He owes them nothing.

It would have pissed the Libs off... and that is all it takes for a win these days for the right-wing. But your point is definitely noted. Trump wouldn't do it for them, he'd do it for himself.

 

[jab]

Jebus! Scamming your own supporters.

that's what scammers and grifters do

 

[Patooka]

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Oh Mitch, every hooker knows you don't talk back to your pimp.

 

[ZiprHead]

‘I’m not talking about political contributions, he adds.

Well, of course not.

Wutta cunt.

 

[blastula]

One of the all time moments in stupid man babies.

White House Wanted USS John McCain ‘Out of Sight’ During Trump Japan Visit - WSJ

More details on this 2019 story has come out.

Emails show Trump White House's effort to hide U.S.S. John S. McCain during Trump visit - The Washington Post.

t fake news, as a batch of newly released emails reinforces and details.
The emails, obtained by Bloomberg News reporter Jason Leopold and by the Wall Street Journal through Freedom of Information Act requests, fill out the story of military officials responding to a request from the White House Military Office. Among the discoveries:

• They show military officials saying repeatedly that this was a White House request, but also that officials didn’t want to put it in writing.
• At one point, a military official was apparently so taken aback by the request that the person asked that it be confirmed. “I could see that becoming a Tweet,” the official added.
• Another military official responded the next morning by saying, “This just makes me sad.”

The released emails stretch back to more than a month before Trump’s late-May 2019 visit. And while they redact virtually everything said by White House officials, the context makes clear that the request to hide the USS McCain did come from the White House.

Trump should mind declassify those emails.

 

[blastula]

Stupid and sociopathic.

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[Jarhyn]

Stupid and sociopathic.

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Truth Social

Truth Social is America's "Big Tent" social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.

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I guess the Angry Orange is issuing Fatwas now.

Against Republicans.

 

[ZiprHead]

Seen elsewhere:

Stop the presses! It's Tan Suit 2.0! Worse than Dijon Mustardgate!

Quote:
Jesse Watters on Monday harped on President Joe Biden’s choice to eat an ice cream cone at a Baskin Robbins in Portland, Oregon over the weekend, complaining that his methods of doing so were “too casual a look for the country.”

Quote:
The Fox host also made a bizarre list and do’s and don’ts for ice cream eating — his commentary resembling the hubbub largely in right-wing media after then-President Barack Obama wore a tan suit during a 2014 press conference and was promptly called “unpresidential” on Fox News. The move was indicative of a “lack of seriousness,” then-Representative Peter King (R-NY) also huffed.
“A man should never lick an ice cream cone in public,” Watters declared. “A man can only eat ice cream on vacation. I guess Biden is always on vacation, so it makes sense. But if a man needs to eat ice cream in public, he should scoop it out of a bowl with a spoon.”

Quote:
But Watters couldn’t leave the ice cream issue alone. “The president of the United States licking things, especially ice cream, is childish, it’s frivolous, and it’s too casual a look for the country,” he griped. “Biden’s brain freeze will live in infamy. And just like [George W.] Bush gave up golf after 9/11, Biden should give up ice cream after the recession. You’re not at a birthday party, Joe.”

Clutch those pearls and get out the smelling salts, Jesse.