Trump, Ripping Off His Own Donors To Own The Libs?

I believe this unbelievable NY Times story about Trump fleecing his donors.

How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations

Online donors were guided into weekly recurring contributions. Demands for refunds spiked. Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared. But the money helped keep Donald Trump’s struggling campaign afloat.

The gist: website donors were met with a page that had two default options pre-checked: one box doubled the intended donation, the other made the intended donation a weekly event. Only the wary and diligent who unchecked both boxes avoided giving  lot more than intended.

Both the Biden and Trump campaigns had to refund some contributions, but...

The sheer magnitude of the money involved is staggering for politics. In the final two and a half months of 2020, the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts issued more than 530,000 refunds worth $64.3 million to online donors. All campaigns make refunds for various reasons, including to people who give more than the legal limit. But the sum the Trump operation refunded dwarfed that of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign and his equivalent Democratic committees, which made 37,000 online refunds totaling $5.6 million in that time.

Or, in pictures:

 

The Times does not explain how this got around the legal contribution limits problem. There was a buried hint (above) that they just took excessive donations now with the expectation of sorting it out later:

All campaigns make refunds for various reasons, including to people who give more than the legal limit.

There is also a suggestion that the 'Stop The Steal' fundraising was used to pay down the pre-election Ponzi scheme.

The recurring donations swelled Mr. Trump’s treasury in September and October, just as his finances were deteriorating. He was then able to use tens of millions of dollars he raised after the election, under the guise of fighting his unfounded fraud claims, to help cover the refunds he owed.

Well. Is this survivable? I haven't been right about Trump since 2016, but this seems as if it ought to be out of bounds for anybody.

Comments

[jim nj]

narciso,

After lots of reading, Firefox SYNC doesn't do what it sounds like. It uploads what you are doing and allows another device to see that. It doesn't physically move it to your other device. If you open a tab and want to read it elsewhere you can if you go look for it in SYNC on the other device.

I assumed it did a full back-up and copied it over. No.

My genealogy software written over 10 years ago works better. After every use loading new data on one PC I click on back-up, copy to a USB stick, bring that USB to my other PC, stick the USB in and click on restore and it overwrites the old database.
Voila. Two duplicate databases and the USB stick in my pocket as the third portable back-up.

[GUS]

Jim nj. Appalled is a low info ass-hole. Like most FULL COMMIE LIBTARDS, he isn't smart enough to judge and analyze REALITY.
There is NOTHING, that Biden nor his Handlers stand for, that is worthy of debate. It blows my mind how the FULL COMMIE CHUMPS, climb aboard whatever CRAP that is dished out. It's pathological. Most on the left are infantile, and even the CREDENTIALED have not earned CREDENTIALS. They are outcast losers, looking for someone to hate.
JILL BIDEN, is a nobody. Yet WHOOOOPDY-DOO GOLDBRICK thought she was "one hell of a DOCTOR".

Why would the ugly WHOOOOOOPDY think that??

Ignorance and enough cash not to have to worry about the GAS PRICES my college son has to worry about. Food prices. Etc etc.
DOCTOR JILL is a PHD in ED. The DOCTARATE is given out by DOUCHE BAGS who are on DOUCHE BAG committees. Biden himself has not held a job in 50 years, yet he is rich???? How can this be??

[GUS]

Even ignoring that Biden has become wealthy by merely getting re-elected, the "man" is 78 years old, and has no record of ANYTHING POSITIVE in that time. Why do AMERICANS somehow believe that BEING IN OFFICE, has ANYTHING, anything at all, to do with competence and/or ability.
Biden is obvious to me. He always has been. He's a dimwitted loud mouth, who absolutely craves attention and power. WRONG FIT for Governance or Leadership. His trail of OBVIOUS and PROVABLE, lies and slurs to those who question him is EPIC. 90% of AMERICANS, know NOTHING about him. And 50% of AMERICANS, do not care, so long as they GET FREE SHIT. The FULL COMMIE MEDIA has a lot to do with that. BIDEN STUMBLES 3 TIMES and falls on his face on the steps of AF1. The press, and the REDHEADED CLOWN at the podium lies. IT WAS THE WIND. Ok. So he gathers himself, gets to the top, turns and salutes. WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT WIND???

It's so simple, but the TAKERS are already bought and paid for.
So BIDENS POSSE decides our TRILLLLIONS need to go to UNIONS. And we sit back and fume

[MissMarple2]

Good morning!

sbw, I hope your package wasn't on this truck!

[MissMarple2]

BlackJack
@BlackJackBoGre1

Ron DeSantis is on Tucker and just described the fake 60 Minutes story as “malicious with reckless disregard for the truth”. Tucker didn’t seem to pick up on it, but DeSantis is setting the table for a massive defamation lawsuit.
8:55 PM · Apr 5, 2021
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Good! I hope he takes them to the cleaners!

[MissMarple2]

https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-agency-provides-homes-for-hundreds-of-immigrant-minors.html?uid=074b350919

I hope someone is carefully vetting these foster homes, particularly since the feds are paying a pretty large stipend (as I understand it).

I also note that the agency interviewed is in Michigan.

[MissMarple2]

jim nj,

Beware Firefox. They seem to have "upgraded" with a decidedly leftist mission. (Speaking from experience.)

[MissMarple2]

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/french-elite-caught-violating-lockdown-rules-attending-secret-restaurants

Are we surprised? They had better read the lyrics to "La Marsellaise" again:

Arise children of the fatherland
The day of glory has arrived
Against us tyranny's
Bloody standard is raised
Listen to the sound in the fields
The howling of these fearsome soldiers
They are coming into our midst
To cut the throats of your sons and consorts

To arms citizens Form your battalions
March, march
Let impure blood
Water our furrows

[MissMarple2]

Reuters
@Reuters
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Jordan bans media coverage of royal rift, Saudi reaffirms support http://reut.rs/3fMT08m

[rse]

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/04/210405-li-show-chauvin-trial-day-5-wrap-up-chief-says-neck-restraint-not-trained-but-does-it-matter-not-trained-doesnt-mean-wrongful-and-even-wrongful-doesnt-mean-cause-of-death/

LaBranca thinks the news coverage hyping the quotes from prosecution case while ignoring the cross examination's gutting of the point may give us riots. Fanned deliberately by the media coverage.

[MissMarple2]

Reuters
@Reuters
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22s
Ukraine says NATO path is only way to end war in eastern region http://reut.rs/3wt2tHI

[MissMarple2]

Dan Williams
@DanWilliams
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41m
Netanyahu gets official nod to form next Israeli government

[MissMarple2]

Angela Brauer
@AngelaBrauerTV
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50m

@Baylor
dominated over @GonzagaU 86-70. It's the team's first men's basketball championship in school history!

[MissMarple2]

Reuters
@Reuters
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Germany expects deal on new IMF reserves to help poorest countries in pandemic http://reut.rs/3sSWKbW

[MissMarple2]

The Tablet
@The_Tablet
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Paris archdiocese resignations pose questions about leadership: The surprise resignation of a prominent vicar general has shed light on tensions within the Paris archdiocese hierarchy, reports @THeneghanParis

https://thetablet.co.uk/news/14023/paris-archdiocese-resignations-pose-questions-about-leadership
#CatholicChurch

[MissMarple2]

https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/05/60-minutes-ignores-democrat-governors-scandals-invents-one-about-desantis/

Good article explaining the evil machinations of 60 Minutes' effort to smear DeSantis.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-06/citadel-securities-feels-the-heat-of-the-political-spotlight

I think those who follow the financial market news may be interested in this. It has quite a grab bag of political people, from President Trump and Mike Pompeo to Elizabeth Warren and AOC.

I never heard of Citadel or its CEO, so this is sort of confusing to me.

[MissMarple2]

Mike Pompeo
@mikepompeo
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19h
Requiring Americans to show proof of vaccination, or a ‘vaccine passport,’ in order to engage in society is outrageous and un-American. This isn’t about containing a virus, but is just another dangerous idea from the Left in their quest for more power and control.

[MissMarple2]

Docturd testing out his new bullshitometer on Hunter...😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/AFWchR3bdI

— ilDonaldoTrumpo (@ilDonaldoTrumpo) April 6, 2021

HA! Video at link.

[MissMarple2]

One of the first times I’ve ever agreed with @GovChristie #GASB202 pic.twitter.com/5LC58gkaIb

— SgtPepper1964 (@SPepper1964) April 6, 2021

Christie hoists Biden on his own petard. Video at the link.

[MissMarple2]

That's it from me for a while. I need to get some work done.

[Melinda]

Citadel’s antics are double secret inside baseball trading mechanics stuff. Having said that, they’re every exchange’s largest customer and they skim trading profits, risklessly, on every order from someone else. Illegally in my eyes, but the exchanges “self regulate” and usually don’t want to anger their best customer, who just so happens to generate the necessary profits to keep the doors open.

[Jane]

The lies by the media have gotten absurd. Sullivan needs to be overturned. They need to be sued beyond recognition.

[Melinda]

Jane-

But Lester said they don’t need to be fair anymore. So why expect anything less? My question remains though, who’s paying them for this pap?

[Jane]

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/04/05/clarence-thomas-scotus-tech-censorship/

Justice Thomas says it’s coming Mel.

[Jane]

I think at this point a lot of it is indoctrination starting in kindergarten. Every dem I talk to has no clue what they are talking about. But they are sure about what they believe.

[Melinda]

This is here too:

https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-321-why-big-oil-conquered-the-world/

It’s just Buffett, Gates, and their little billionaires club funding it’s rollout now.

[sbwaters]

But Lester said they don’t need to be fair anymore.

The @AP Washington bureau chief claimed back in 2008 (reported in 2010) that the opinion of reporters is news. That’s both unethical and dangerous.

Jane, paraphrasing Gus:

They never learned enough in school or from their parent(s) to judge and analyze reality, or understand why it is in their long term best interest to want to.

[Old Lurker]

...or in Sunday School.

[Old Lurker]

Nevermind.

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday there is no significant risk of catching the coronavirus from a surface or object.

The CDC clarified its position in a guidance update that said people generally contract ­COVID-19 through direct contact with a sick person or from airborne transmission.

“It is possible for people to be infected through contact with contaminated surfaces or objects (fomites), but the risk is generally considered to be low,” the revised guidance states.

The official revision was made nearly a year after the agency noted last May that COVID-19 “does not spread easily” through touching surfaces or objects.

Before that, at the beginning of the pandemic last March, the agency had warned that “it may be possible” to pass on the bug from contaminated surfaces.

That initial guidance prompted the MTA to close the subway system overnight and to use disinfectants to clean every surface in stations and trains..."

[Melinda]

Just like Fauci saying just being outside might be preventing transmission, on Sunday.

[Narciso]

Malware go back to factory resets

[Melinda]

Really? Two more?

Two Ships 'M/T Rumford and Minerva Nike' were stuck in Suez Canal today due to which the traffic in the famous Canal was halted

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1379414131275665416?s=19

[Buckeye]

The lies by the media have gotten absurd. Sullivan needs to be overturned. They need to be sued beyond recognition.

Until a couple of the worst offenders are found floating face down in a ditch, this shit isn’t going to stop.

[Jane]

Don’t know what the liberal media is reporting, but sure sounds like the DeSantos scandal could elevate him to president. Who will our successor be?

[Melinda]

And Fauci clip:

Dr. Fauci on Texas Covid cases dropping despite ignoring his advice on masks/social distancing:
"It can be confusing, because … often you have to wait a few weeks before you see the effect … I’m not really quite sure. It could be they’re doing things outdoors"

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1379399850895237124

[Old Lurker]

Nevermind.

"It turns out that children who attend schools with mask requirements are likely just as safe from COVID-19 sitting just 3 feet from each other and not the 6 feet previously recommended by the Centers for Disease and Prevention.

Those findings, which were used by the CDC to update its guidance about schools in mid-March, stem from a study conducted over the fall and winter examining transmission rates in K-12 schools in Massachusetts, where masks are required for most public-school students and all staff.

Putting students closer together in classrooms did not lead to an increase in COVID-19 cases, a group of medical researchers and policy experts concluded in the accepted manuscript published March 10 in the medical journal Clinical Infectious Diseases."

[Old Lurker]

Mel "Fauci. Or it might be we just have no clue what the F*K we are saying..."

[Old Lurker]

At least this could never happen in the US:

"Nursing home residents in Ontario, Canada, are begging to go outside after spending a year inside due to lockdown orders and recently receiving the vaccine.

"We did nothing wrong; we're not guilty of any crime," Chuck Ferkranus, an Ontario nursing home resident, said. "If vaccinations don't end the rules, if no one having COVID doesn't end the restrictions, then what does it take before this comes to an end?"

There are about 150,000 nursing home residents in Ontario, many still confined indoors and cut off from seeing family. Ninety percent of residents living in long-term facilities are vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to Health Minister Christine Elliott.

Activists say the continued lockdown restrictions can hurt residents physically and mentally, adding that the extended isolation doesn’t make sense as scientific evidence shows the virus is less likely to spread outdoors than inside..."

[Appalled]

The lies by the media have gotten absurd. Sullivan needs to be overturned. They need to be sued beyond recognition.

You realize, if Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Giuliani, and Trump himself escape being bankrupted by Dominion, it will be because of Sullivan

The law of unintended consequences applies to conservative bomb throwers as well as the liberal ones.

[Momto2]

Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO

Any corporation telling you that Voter ID laws are racist is run by white supremacists.

Black people know how to get ID. Pretending we are too stupid to figure out how to get to the DMV is an insult and speaks volumes about what Democrats truly think about us.

[Momto2]

Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
Georgia Republicans call for Coca-Cola products to be removed from legislative offices

That's it from me this morning (two little Ga. related tweets.) I have a 15 yard dumpster on my driveway (Happy Spring Break!) and I'm clearing out my house in preparation for sale. Hope all of my Ga. friends are enduring the pollen.

[Narciso]

Fauci wanted a bigger mountain of skulls then in the 80s so vualla

[Narciso]

Being human craving contact is the crime see thx 1138 for guidelines

[MissMarple2]

Taking a break. Although I got the majority of the work done, I still have a way to go in the spare bedroom, which became a depository for my granddaughter's books and video games, some odd items from my son, my daughter's arts and crafts equipment, and of course, the kittens' toys, which they did not take with them.

[Narciso]

Like barbers

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1379413084679340032

[jimmyk]

Black people know how to get ID.

New Neo linked this Ami Horowitz video from a year or two ago. He interviews white Berkeley students saying (not in so many words) that blacks are too stupid to know how to get IDs, use the internet, etc. Then he interviews a bunch of blacks in Harlem. 4 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW2LpFkVfYk

[MissMarple2]

Before I forget, I want to recount some interesting and alarming information on something we have puzzled about: how these corporations became so left-leaning.

There was an interview with a guy on Just the News on Real America's voice this morning. He said that over 20 years ago the left realized that corporations could be steered by their CEO's, Boards of Directors, and stockholders.

In large corporations the Boards are chosen from lists supplied by firms specializing in screeening and recommending candidates. So, they gained control of these firms so that all candidates recommended were people sympathetic to the left. At the same time, gaining control of boards of large insurance and investment firms, pension funds, etc. they managed to gain quite a big chunk of stock shares. CEO's are chosen by boards in conjunction with these same recruiting firms.

He said this is a deliberate and well thought-out plan which has been moving forward for at least 20 years. They are not concerned about profits as much as shaping the culture and political field.

I believe I understood this properly. If I can find video of the interview, I will post it later, since I may have misunderstood something he said.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

OK momto2... where you moving? You gonna join JOM central in SW Florida?

[GUS]

I hope that APPALLING ASS-HOLE stays under his ROCK today. Fucking clown.

[Neo]

Former impeached judge, Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings dead at 84

[Melinda]

Applying “Cuz Muh Sullivan” doesn’t make it the underpinning for any win instead of say, SLAPP. Lies not withstanding, of course.

[Narciso]

Alcee hastings has faced his final impeachment

[Narciso]

Oh

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/04/maybe_coke_should_be_cancelled_for_its_nazi_past.html

[MissMarple2]

Narciso, that article's detailing of Coke's ties to the Third Reich is very good.

It should be thrown right back in their faces.

[MissMarple2]

Back to work!

[Jane]

Appalled,

Will you answer my question about what you think happened on the Trump Putin meeting - and your source? Thanks

[MissMarple2]

Matt Couch
@RealMattCouch
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Brother and Sister-in-Law of General Michael Flynn SUE CNN Over QAnon Allegations, “Plaintiffs are not followers or supporters of any extremist or terrorist groups, including QAnon”

[henry]

Friends of Biden call for mostly peaceful protests, with fire.

@vickimckenna

BLM "activist" threatens cities around America: "Cities Will Be on Fire" - Black Lives Matter Activist Warns "All Hell Will Break Loose" If Officer Chauvin Is Not Convicted in George Floyd Death

[MissMarple2]

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/why-did-u-s-border-protection-delete-this-press-release-about-apprehending-terrorists/

Let me emphasize they deleted a PRESS RELEASE with quotes from officials, not a tweet. There were also photos and the suspects were named.

The CBP has so far not replied to questions about why it was deleted without explanation.

[Neo]

QAnon is an "extremist or terrorist groups" ?
I just thought they were a bit more than paranoid.

[Neo]

North Las Vegas mayor leaves Dems to join GOP, says he 'can't stand' with socialists
Mayor John Lee says Democratic Party is full of 'card-carrying socialists'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nevada-mayor-switches-parties-dems-socialists

[MissMarple2]

Neo,

I believe somebody determined they were extremists(aka the FBI) and that is why they were included in the lawsuit phrasing.

[Jane]

92 years ago today, the Twinkie was created! Celebrate!

[Narciso]

Mostly peaceful yemenis but general flynns family they are the threat. Remembwe the info on the saudi yoot came from a very elite unit of the dha that wasnt meant for public distribution

[Narciso]

Dang rogue nissans

https://mobile.twitter.com/BryanDeanWright/status/1379441671138607104

[Narciso]

Maybe it was the foi gras

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/04/france-muslim-migrant-who-was-ordered-to-leave-the-country-two-years-ago-attacks-three-jews-with-a-knife

[Neo]

Biden's DHS may restart border wall construction to plug 'gaps'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/5/dhs-may-restart-border-wall-construction-plug-gaps/

[Narciso]

The beatings will continue

https://nypost.com/2021/04/04/nyc-budget-likely-to-tax-big-businesses-top-earners-by-billions/

[Jane]

Neo,

Very interesting pivot. I guess 10million new voters is enough.

[Old Lurker]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/renewal-from-pandemic-requires-spiritual-independence_3763549.html?utm_source=partner

Finally, someone says it.

[MissMarple2]

Kat Timpf (yes her) gives her opinion on Biden's hypocrisy regarding drugs on Greg Gutfeld's show. Video at link, about a minute, and she is pretty much spot on, which astounds me.

Here is @KatTimpf talking to @greggutfeld about Hunter Biden. pic.twitter.com/eIkWiDdeCL

— Andrew Wimsatt 🖐 (@ajwimsatt) April 6, 2021

[Melinda]

Ain’t that something, just imagine the coincidence of that deal!

Jeff Carlson
@themarketswork
Atlantic Council signed "Cooperative Agreement" w/Burisma (Hunter Biden) on 1-19-17.

And let us not forget that Dimitry Alperovich (Crowdstrike) and Evelyn Farkas (Obama's Dep Asst Sec Defense) are also "non-resident senior fellows" at Atlantic Council.

burisma-group.com/eng/news/the-a…

Shannon @Avery1776
Replying to @Avery1776 @FoxNews
EastOne group = Victor Pinchuk - will find him on the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Counsel along with James Clapper and many others @themarketswork
@BenKTallmadge @Knowita47918362
efile.fara.gov/docs/6071-Supp…

atlanticcouncil.org/about/internat…

https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1179783855638581248

[Melinda]

Hunter Biden says psychedelic toad venom kept him sober for a year.

https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1379498069713162248

[Dave (in MA)]

Paste Eater his son Toad Licker. We're doomed.

[Dave (in MA)]

Posted by: Neo | April 06, 2021 at 12:26 PM

Acc. to the Red Eye Radio guys early this AM, there's more wall-building funding hidden in the so-called stimulus than Trump was even planning on spending. If only more Dems had known about it, maybe the bill could have been voted down.

[Narciso]

Crunchy frog, what fresh hell?

[henry]

New