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TRUMP FORCED TO RETURN NEARLY $13 MILLION IN DONATIONS HE BILKED FROM HIS SUPPORTERS
Former President Donald Trump is being forced to return nearly $13 million in campaign donations that were collected from his supporters without their knowledge or approval in a scam that bilked those who donated by immediately signing them up for recurring donations, according to The New York Times:
“Trailing in the polls and facing a cash crunch last September, Mr. Trump’s political operation began opting online donors into automatic recurring contributions by prechecking a box on its digital donation forms to take a withdrawal every week. Donors would have to notice the box and uncheck it to opt out of the donation. A second prechecked box took out another donation, known as a ‘money bomb.’
“The Trump team then obscured that fact by burying the fine print beneath multiple lines of bold and capitalized text, a New York Times investigation earlier this year found.”
While the maneuver greatly increased revenues for a short period of time, it later resulted in thousands of fraud complaints to credit card companies and demands for refunds.
“All told, more than $135 million was refunded to donors by Mr. Trump, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts in the 2020 cycle through June 2021 — including roughly $60 million after Election Day.”
“It’s pretty clear that the Trump campaign was engaging in deceptive tactics. If you have to return that much money you are doing something either very wrong or very unethical.”
Former President Donald Trump is being forced to return nearly $13 million in campaign donations that were collected from his supporters without their knowledge or approval in a scam that bilked those who donated by immediately signing them up for recurring donations, according to The New York Times:
“Trailing in the polls and facing a cash crunch last September, Mr. Trump’s political operation began opting online donors into automatic recurring contributions by prechecking a box on its digital donation forms to take a withdrawal every week. Donors would have to notice the box and uncheck it to opt out of the donation. A second prechecked box took out another donation, known as a ‘money bomb.’
“The Trump team then obscured that fact by burying the fine print beneath multiple lines of bold and capitalized text, a New York Times investigation earlier this year found.”
While the maneuver greatly increased revenues for a short period of time, it later resulted in thousands of fraud complaints to credit card companies and demands for refunds.
“All told, more than $135 million was refunded to donors by Mr. Trump, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts in the 2020 cycle through June 2021 — including roughly $60 million after Election Day.”
“It’s pretty clear that the Trump campaign was engaging in deceptive tactics. If you have to return that much money you are doing something either very wrong or very unethical.”
