Man sues for refund of $2.5m he donated to Trump election challenge group

Authored by independent.co.uk and submitted by PlanetoftheAtheists

A man who donated $2.5m to help Donald Trump's crusade to overturn the elections is asking for his money back.

Fred Eshelman, the donor, is suing Houston-based "True the Vote Inc" for what he claims are "empty promises," Bloomberg reported.

True The Vote claimed it had a multi-part plan to "investigate, litigate and expose suspected illegal balloting and fraud in the 2020 general election," the lawsuit said.

The group claimed it also collected whistle blower complaints, supported GOP legislative fights in swing states and conducted "sophisticated data modeling and statistical analysis to identify potential illegal or fraudulent balloting."

In the weeks after the election, True the Vote filed four lawsuits, but dropped them all last week.

“While we stand by the voters’ testimony that was brought forth, barriers to advancing our arguments, coupled with constraints on time, made it necessary for us to pursue a different path,” the group wrote on its website on 17 Nov.

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Mr Eshelman supported the group under the pretense that they would find evidence of voter fraud. However, as their lawsuits failed - as have almost all of the lawsuits filed by supporters of Mr Trump in attempts to overturn the election - Mr Eshelman has decided he wants a refund.

He claimed that he "regularly and repeatedly" asked True the Vote Inc for updates on their initiatives, but was given "vague responses, platitudes, and empty promises."

According to Mr Eshelman, True the Vote offered to give him $1m to drop his lawsuit.

True the Vote has not responded to press requests for contact.

jaysunh on November 27th, 2020 at 01:17 UTC »

This is the pinnacle of /r/leapoardsatemyface. Who the fuck gives $2.5mil to that shitshow? Trump told everyone, to their faces, on multiple occasions, that he would claim fraud if he lost. And he said it long before the election.

ferrari20094 on November 27th, 2020 at 00:49 UTC »

Considering everyone knew before hand these voter fraud groups were just perfectly timed organizations that could take your money and use it for whatever they wanted, pretty sure he ain't getting is money back. How do people so stupid come into so much money.

another-masked-hero on November 27th, 2020 at 00:43 UTC »

Fred Eshelman, the donor, is suing Houston-based "True the Vote Inc" for what he claims are "empty promises," Bloomberg reported.

What an idiot