I can kinda see Melania as that frustrated villain from Power Rangers.
Will he just fucking die already.
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WOT?
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I almost kinda feel bad for Melania, like I don’t think she anticipated him living this long when he married him and she’s almost certainly going to get screwed out of any money when he kicks off.
I don’t feel sorry for gold-diggers.
She can go fuck herself.
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Over/under on this happening on OnlyFans in our lifetime?
But 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.
As the election neared, the Trump team made that disclaimer increasingly opaque, an investigation by The New York Times showed. It introduced 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.
Jesus - even for Trump that’s mildly suprising.
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Well, this explains a lot.
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.
In effect, the money that Mr. Trump eventually had to refund amounted to an interest-free loan from unwitting supporters at the most important juncture of the 2020 race.
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Several bank representatives who fielded fraud claims directly from consumers estimated that WinRed cases, at their peak, represented as much as 1 to 3 percent of their workload. An executive for one of the nation’s larger credit-card issuers confirmed that WinRed at its height accounted for a similar percentage of its formal disputes.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1378414340974469120?s=19
Already looking forward to the Maddow segment on this.
Counterpoint:
https://twitter.com/morninggloria/status/1378416773402226688?s=19
https://twitter.com/morninggloria/status/1378418015071399938?s=19
https://twitter.com/jarestia/status/1378418553867669507?s=19
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Amazing and not at all surprising.
But for some Trump supporters like Ron Wilson, WinRed is a scam artist. Mr. Wilson, an 87-year-old retiree in Illinois, made a series of small contributions last fall that he thought would add up to about $200; by December, federal records show, WinRed and Mr. Trump’s committees had withdrawn more than 70 separate donations from Mr. Wilson worth roughly $2,300.
“Predatory!” Mr. Wilson said of WinRed. Like multiple other donors interviewed, though, he held Mr. Trump himself blameless, telling The Times, “I’m 100 percent loyal to Donald Trump.”
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Not one bit. It’s a goddamn cult. Trump could turn middle America into Jonestown if he wanted to.
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