An online fundraiser for former President Donald Trump has racked up $84,354 out of a $355 million target in just 24 hours following the final judgement in his civil fraud trial in New York.
On Friday, Trump was fined roughly $355 million by New York Judge Arthur Engoron following a monthslong trial. The trial was to determine how much Trump and his associates would pay after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit in September 2022 accusing the former president, his two adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, The Trump Organization and two firm executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney of fraudulently overvaluing assets to secure more favorable bank loans and taxation deals.
The former president was also barred from doing business in New York for three years. Other defendants in the case also faced financial penalties and were banned from doing business in New York for periods of time. Meanwhile, Trump, who is the GOP frontrunner in the 2024 presidential election, has denied any wrongdoing and claims the case was politically motivated.
I hope someone is carefully monitoring these donations to determine origin…
Man, i want some of that sweet rube money.
If hypothetically, i created a gofundme that said something along the lines of ‘help support me support trump’ and it had a bunch of weasel words that sounded supportive of him but just boiled down to me using the money to pay my bills while thinking about supportive scaffolding, would that be illegal?
Reminds me of when the PS3 first went on sale and people sold pictures of a PS3 on eBay. The title said it was a picture, the content said it was a picture, but people were impatient, didn’t read and bought the auctions. I thought that was a bit manipulative then, but I would not feel bad if people did this to Trump supporters. IANAL but I don’t think it’s illegal as long as you don’t say you’ll do something and then not do it.
Plenty of dudes have already beaten you to the punch. They blast people with texts that all go to fake donor sites like winred.com that then beg you to make $3,300 donations.
Hell, winred.com is just as much the same scam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIOrTvPdFwQ
Winred still operates.
Doesn’t mean you can’t make more.
With $15 (for domain and hosting), you too can funnel money from MAGA with a donation site to “help”!
I wonder if you could astro turf the hell out of this. Go deeper. Make it fun!
Make a fake identity for your company’s parent company that parodies this guy https://gerritlansing.org/about-2/. Hire an actor on fiver to be red white and blue all over, set up your secret island bank accounts in the Seychelles and then go full Kojima mode lalilulelo, metal gear?! nanomachies?! etc etc.
It could be self funding ARG that protects its “fraud” as an artistic work. Qanons would eat it up.
Mannnn 'course it’s already a thing…
Thanks for the info
I think winred has inserted themselves into the RepubliQan donation scam, too. I think campaigns are required to use them.
I wish I was unethical enough to grift the shit out of those rubes.
Ah, not qualified to be a billionaire I see.
It’s completely ethical to trick fascists out of their money following basic harm reduction principles.
Wah-wah
The GoFundMe is run by a random follower of his. Remember that guy who was raising money to pay for the wall and then just took the money and disappeared?
That was Steve Bannon, and he received a presidential pardon for it.
It was Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage. Bannon was pardoned but Kolfage is sitting in FMC Rochester until 2027.
But this GoFundMe is by the wife of “financial influencer” Grant Cardone, who has been sued by investors for fraud multiple times. Also a Scientologist, so that tracks.
I wish I would have thought of it first this time 😔
Fraud? You wish you thought of fraud the first time? You do realize that no one who engaged in fraud, et al, for that cheeto stain has gotten any help in avoiding criminal charges, right? It’s probably for the best that you didn’t think of fraud first.
Except the ones that did. Basically you’re right except for all the examples where you’re wrong.
He pardoned Steve Bannon and Roger Stone.
You’re fun.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
An online fundraiser for former President Donald Trump has racked up $84,354 out of a $355 million target in just 24 hours following the final judgement in his civil fraud trial in New York.
On Friday, Trump was fined roughly $355 million by New York Judge Arthur Engoron following a monthslong trial.
The trial was to determine how much Trump and his associates would pay after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit in September 2022 accusing the former president, his two adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, The Trump Organization and two firm executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney of fraudulently overvaluing assets to secure more favorable bank loans and taxation deals.
Cardone called herself “an ardent supporter of American values and an advocate for justice” who stands “unwaveringly with President Donald Trump” on the fundraising page.
“Let’s stand with Trump to ensure that justice prevails and that we continue to fight for a country that respects freedom, honors courage, and rewards the unwavering spirit of its people.”
His lawyer Christopher Kise told Newsweek that Trump plans to appeal the judge’s ruling in James’ “unjust political crusade against the front-running candidate for President of the United States.”
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Trump literally wouldn’t even qualify for a Secret/L.
So if you divide it out, that’s 0.0023% of the fine.
Today’s goal is $600,000,000, we just need to sell enough magazine subscriptions and all of our food stamps. This is totally achievable! Now let’s get out there and support the TRUE 51TH PRESIDENT!
When you’re funding your successful billionaire businessman president to pay his court fees on the same platform used to pay for people’s medical bills do you think maybe capitalism might have failed us?
Let’s see him rant against his own followers here. You know he can’t refuse.
Oh but if they don’t fund him, they aren’t his followers. Just like every politician that he endorses who loses he never cared for and knows they never liked him.
I can’t wait until he launches his competitor to Star Citizen.
If my math is correct, at that rate, he only has a little less than 11 years to go at that rate to raise the target amount!
Nah, I read in another thread that interest on it was beyond that, but at about 5%, that’s nearly 50k/day.
Compound interest is complicated but I figure at least 30 years if $84k per day holds up. Of course Don only has a few years left so why would the donations keep coming?
Because he’s going to pass the torch to one of his kids and his idiot followers will probably believe he transferred his soul into him too.
Judgements in NY State have an interest rate of 9%. And he has to pay it within 30 days. This isn’t going to raise that much and it’ll be stolen anyway.
Meaning they’d better ramp it up a little closer to $12m daily to get there on time. That is, if the platform do not wake up and enforce its own rules.
84K that isn’t going to go into a superPAC, to another candidate, to the RNC, or get spent to campaign for trump.
Still 84K too much
At the rate he’s spending money on losing in court and associated legal fees, this will probably last no more than a week before he needs more money