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Lol...people making one-time donations were hustled into recurring payments without their knowledge.
"WinRed" lol...more like Suckers International. They likely knew their marks wouldn't read or couldn't understand it, even if they did, especially after they marketing company enhanced their grift by introducing "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."
lol...what the bold giveth, the fine print taketh away.
lol...and the grift continued after refunds were demanded. To pay that piper, Trump ripped off a new crowd of suckers.
How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations (Published 2021)
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.
www.nytimes.com
...what the Blatts believed was duplicity was actually an intentional scheme to boost revenues by the Trump campaign and the for-profit company that processed its online donations, WinRed. 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.
"WinRed" lol...more like Suckers International. They likely knew their marks wouldn't read or couldn't understand it, even if they did, especially after they marketing company enhanced their grift by introducing "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."
lol...what the bold giveth, the fine print taketh away.
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.
lol...and the grift continued after refunds were demanded. To pay that piper, Trump ripped off a new crowd of suckers.
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
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