The Trump Fundraising Scams Continue with the NRCC

[Nevilledog]

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Tim Miller
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The ⁦@NRCC⁩ is running a Trump campaign style fundraising scam, asking people to sign up for his non existent social network and then having a default setting of doubling the donation and making it recur monthly.

The Trump Fundraising Scams Continue with the NRCC - The Bulwark
The grift goes on and on and on and on . . .
thebulwark.com
6:35 AM · Apr 7, 2021

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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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Seriously?

Shane Goldmacher
@ShaneGoldmacher
This is the NRCC's homepage prechecked donation box right now.

Unchecking makes supporters a "DEFECTOR"

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Did you know that today is your last opportunity to sign up for Donald Trump’s new social network?

No?

Well then you must not be receiving the critical, exclusive updates from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).

Last week the New York Times dropped a bombshell report detailing the extent to which the Trump campaign had scammed its own supporters into providing them a nine-figure, interest-free loan. The crux of the grift was the Trump campaign’s deceptive email practices which, among other things, chose to make recurring donations the default setting for supporters who were lured in by the campaign’s hyperbolic and conspiratorial fundraising pitches.

As a result, elderly Trump supporters on fixed incomes had their bank accounts depleted, causing their rent and utilities checks to bounce. Altogether the Trump campaign had to refund $122 million in online donations from their own supporters who had been duped.

Score another one for the party of the working man.

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[EarlG]

1. Isn't this FRAUD, plain and simple?

They're straight up telling people that if they uncheck the box, Donald Trump will be personally informed of their non-righteousness.

"We will have to tell Trump that you're a DEFECTOR & sided with the Dems." -- this is an obvious LIE. They're not going to personally inform Trump about every single person who unchecked the box.

What's it called when you take money from people under false pretenses?

Fraud is a broad term that refers to acts intended to swindle someone. In essence, it's the use of intentional deception for monetary or personal gain.

Thousands of people each year fall victim to it. Fraud always includes a false statement, misrepresentation or deceitful conduct. The purpose is to gain something of value, usually money, by misleading or deceiving someone into believing something that the perpetrator knows to be false.

https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/fraud.html

[gratuitous]

2. Give Republicans credit

They know their audience. Intimately. Almost obscenely.