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For a supposed billionaire, Donald Trump sure spends a lot of time asking me for money.
All fear, all the time.
Plus the unrelenting lies and pathetic projections.
Small indeed.
Boy, talk about taking one for the team!
I’d like thank Jamie for taking one for the team.
You’re lucky you don’t get the text messages. They’re alternately scolding, flattering, begging…kind of sexy if you’re into that “angry dad on the verge of violence and enabled by his family” thing.
And with his 2020 fund-raising underscores more than ever why we need publicly funded elections.
Indeed…those dark money has given rise to despotic and/or adversarial sovereigns and 1%ers to manipulate our elections and legislators to the detriment of our citizens and country.
Trump’s fundraising campaign tactics sounds like it is from a one of those scammers in one of the countries he called shitholes…a Nigerian Prince scam, only it is another Trump scam!
"Begging is distasteful, begging by purported billionaires whose fundraising pitches are fraudulent in almost every detail — except for the fact that you are indeed giving money to him — even more so.
This is so on-brand with Trump who has been self-dealing with his own charitable foundation…literally stealing the money from his charitable donors and its recipients…for his and his families personal use!
While begging through relentless scam-like fundraising is distasteful, self-dealing is unlawful…and both are unethical!
The report, published Thursday, found that Trump’s team owes a total of $1.82 million to 14 local municipalities for public safety-related costs incurred during the president’s “Make America Great Again” events.
That’s nearly double the amount of debt that the nonprofit investigative journalism organization found in June 2019. At that time, the president’s re-election effort owed at least $841,219 to 10 city governments.
@newtgingrich 2012 holding firm at $4.63 million in campaign debt as of June 30.
— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) August 17, 2020
Among those Gingrich’s 2012 campaign still owes: Herman Cain. pic.twitter.com/NUlC6V3Pqe
And it was a well-written article, a pleasure to read.
And here I thought it was just me.
The TikTok kids who punked tRump in Tulsa got slimed with telephone fund-raising crap, so early on, they started using Google Voice phone #'s to sign up.
It’s also interesting that a chunk of the money actually collected from the rubes goes into tRump’s pocket. That will be another set of felony indictments next year.
I would not even pay for a bucket of water if I saw Trump on fire!
But I’m one of his 100 hand selected Patriots! I’m so Proud !!!