New York Times: “Facing a cash crunch and getting badly outspent by the Democrats, the campaign had begun last September to set up recurring donations by default for online donors, for every week until the election. 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.”
1.Utterly despicable 2.Don't feel bad about Trump supporters being conned by their Con Man.I donate to multiple candidates and every time I have to check the box if I want to make recurring payments
Also they donated to Trump... theu guy who claimed he would only spend his own money and takes no money... the fact his deplorables sent him millions nevertheless shows how easy stupid can be fooled. I dont donate to campaigns because they dont need bloated budgets and staff to win. trump suckeres so many of you to cough up money haha
In Trump's mind, money that is donated to him is not money he has taken. Therefore, in his own head, since it was GIVEN to him, it is his own money. 85, you and I should start our own fund. The OverCat fund or something. El GatoNight. Purpose? Who the hell knows. Just make it a SPAC! Then we can come up with something eventually, lol!
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/3/2...upporters-recurring-donation-winred-gary-coby By June 2020, the Trump campaign had begun using dark patterns, computer interfaces designed to trick users, to automatically sign up campaign contributors to donate far more money than they had intended — recurring monthly donations, recurring weekly donations, even a one-time surprise “money bomb” per month — by pre-checking the checkboxes for each option, burying the fine print under paragraphs of bold text, and forcing his supporters to wade through it all and opt out if they wanted to make a simple donation. One Kansas City supporter who donated $500 saw his account tapped for $3,000 that month. Another realized their $990 donation had become $8,000. Banks and a major credit card company told the NYT that dealing with fraud claims for WinRed, the conservative fundraising site processing these payments, had started to become a significant percentage of their daily workload. A Trump spokeperson admitted at least $19.7 million worth of its transactions had been disputed. And those are just from people who bothered to dispute the charges. There’s far more in the full story, like how WinRed pocketed $5 million worth of payment processing fees from those who asked for refunds, but the good news is that maybe, just maybe, people are finally waking up to the dangers that dark patterns pose.
Trump could face "legal consequences" for bilking supporters of campaign fundraising – analyst "He is facing so many civil and criminal charges right now that he's going crazy trying to defend himself" https://www.salon.com/2021/04/04/tr...ers-of-campaign-fundraising--analyst_partner/
Thug Republicans Threaten Donors If They Don’t Let Them Empty Their Bank Accounts https://www.politicususa.com/2021/04/07/republican-defectors-donations.html Republicans are threatening to label their own donors defectors if they try to stop automatic recurring donations. Here is what happens if a donor tries to uncheck the recurring donations box: The National Republican Campaign Committee is threatening to label their own donors defectors if they do not consent to allow the GOP to empty their bank account with recurring donations that they may not want to make or be able to afford. The Republican Party has been remolded into Trump’s image, which means that the party is one giant grift and con. The Republican website message also implies that any donor who won’t commit to being shaken down as a person who is betraying the party. One of the big reasons to pass the For The People Act is to bring a campaign finance system under control that is increasingly lawless and dangerous to the US democratic electoral process.