GOP Goes Full Psychopath, Threatens to “Tell Trump” About Supporters Who Won’t Pony Up Donations

Authored by vanityfair.com and submitted by Pr3st0ne

Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that over the course of the 2020 election, the Trump campaign ripped off unwitting supporters for tens of millions of dollars. It did so through an extremely simple yet wildly deceitful scheme in which the default option for donations authorized the campaign to transfer the pledged amount from people’s bank accounts not once but every single week. Later, the campaign introduced a second prechecked box that doubled a person’s contribution and was known internally as a “money bomb.” In order for people to have picked up on this before it was too late, they would have had to wade through “lines of text in bold and capital letters that overwhelmed the opt-out language.” Few people did, hence why the two and half months leading up the the election, the Trump campaign, the RNC, and their shared accounts were forced to issue a whopping 530,000 refunds worth $64.3 million to online donors, compared to the 37,000 online refunds of $5.6 million that Joe Biden‘s campaign and his equivalent Democratic committees refunded. “Bandits!” Victor Amelino, a 78-year-old Californian whose $990 donation turned into nearly $8,000, told the Times of the scheme, and you can probably understand why!

Yet apparently, Republicans associated with Donald Trump have not changed their tactics in light of the very bad press; they’ve upped the ante. By which we mean that in addition to continuing to use prechecked boxes to bilk supporters, they’re threatening to rat out anyone who doesn’t agree to recurring donations to the ex-president.

The political arm of House Republicans is deploying a prechecked box to enroll donors into repeating monthly donations—and using ominous language to warn them of the consequences if they opt out: “If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Trump you’re a DEFECTOR.” The language appears to be an effort by the National Republican Congressional Committee to increase its volume of recurring donations, which are highly lucrative, while invoking former President Donald J. Trump’s popularity with the conservative base. Those donors who do not proactively uncheck the box will have their credit cards billed or bank accounts deducted for donations every month.

Here’s what the box looks like, in all its psychotic glory:

In a statement, Michael McAdams, a spokesman for the NRCC, said the committee “employs the same standards that are accepted and utilized by Democrats and Republicans across the digital fund-raising ecosystem.” He did not say if he’d ever come across a Democratic fundraising notice that read “If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Joe Biden you’re a dirty rotten scoundrel and a traitor to the party.”

Anyway, it’s presumably a matter of time until these messages escalate to “If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Trump you’re a traitor who deserves to die” or "If you UNCHECK this box we’ll kill your whole family and make it look like an accident!”

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Rudy Giuliani’s son is threatening to run for governor of New York

“Outside of anybody named Trump, I think I have the best chance to win and take the state back, and I think there’s an opportunity in 2022 with a wounded Democratic candidate, whether it’s going to be Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo, whether it’s going to be a radical [Attorney General] Letitia James, whether it’s going to be a no-name lieutenant governor, I think there’s a very, very real chance to win,” Andrew Giuliani told the Washington Examiner. “I believe I can win the race. I think I’m the right candidate, and this is the right time to help change New York State, and we’ve got a playbook that works.”

What, exactly, are the younger Giuliani’s qualifications to be governor outside of being the son of a guy who once served as mayor of New York City before his descent into madness? Well, to be honest, there aren’t many. He‘s never been elected to public office. He did work in the Trump White House, but not necessarily something to write home about, or to campaign on, given that Trump is despised by most New Yorkers. According to the Washington Examiner, Giuliani “has been encouraged to enter the race by several big donors and allies, including former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik.” Not mentioned is the fact that Kerik is a convicted felon who pleaded guilty in 2010 to tax fraud and other charges. (Naturally, he was pardoned by Donald Trump.) Kerik also made a name for himself, according to The New York Times, by conducting an affair at an apartment near Ground Zero that was reserved for 9/11 rescue workers.

CodinOdin on April 9th, 2021 at 13:44 UTC »

I've been trying to see what fun and creative way they would try to twist this in the conservative subreddit, but it seems like their solution is to not discuss it at all. Can't say I am surprised.

samfreez on April 9th, 2021 at 13:21 UTC »

I'm amused at the notion of telling people you'll rat them out, but only if they actually pay up first.

If the person chooses not to pay, their info doesn't go to Trump, and he doesn't find out they're "traitors" or whatever.

But of course that'd require critical thinking skills, so I fully expect that box will remain checked, and people will just donate less per month to continue to appease the Manchurian Mango.

Bweeboo on April 9th, 2021 at 13:11 UTC »

Full on mob tactics.