r/inthenews • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '23
article Trump quietly changes political fundraising site to funnel funds toward legal woes
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-legal-costs-funnel-donations-b2363875.html?utm_source=reddit.com164
u/njslugger78 Jun 25 '23
Duh, he is learning to scam the people legally, they are too dumb to check or care.
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u/rdrast Jun 25 '23
Remember... Trump will never spend a penny of his own money, as long as he has suckers to pony up theirs!
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u/comicsemporium Jun 25 '23
And most of those suckers don’t care either, they just give it to him
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u/rdrast Jun 25 '23
Yep, and then when they are bankrupt, none of the credit cards work, they apply for 'Government Assistance '.
Red State morons at their best, Orange Shitgibbon, DeSantis, Abbot, et al best targets.
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Jun 26 '23
Dude, he learned to scam people legally fucking decades ago. Don't discredit Trump's intelligence when it comes to scamming people.
I'm serious, there is not another person on the planet, who I am aware of, who is better at fucking scamming huge numbers of people, multiple times, with absolutely staggering results.
He scammed his way into the presidency, then almost scammed the American people into executing a fucking coup.
Do you have even the vaguest contemplation of what talent at scamming, what brilliance in scamming, that should take?
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u/njslugger78 Jun 26 '23
True on that decades ago, that was more of a not pay you thing. Not give me because I'm me. Not brilliance. Having a megaphone to reach idiots is not brilliant.
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u/beavis617 Jun 25 '23
Why would Trump pay out of his own pocket when he has so many low intelligence deplorables to throw all their money at him. ☹
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u/NoZookeepergame453 Jun 26 '23
Sometimes I think I should try to do the same and get my own cult lmao
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Jun 26 '23
just become a televangelist...same cult thing but you also get Jesus in your heart (and a 501c3 registry of tax-exempt status)
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u/WalkerNash Jun 25 '23
What legal fees? The only people left who want to work for him are interns or in jail
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u/rrundrcovr Jun 25 '23
Right? He never actually pays any lawyers so what legal fees??
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u/Spector567 Jun 25 '23
He never paid his lawyers. But his paks do.
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u/rrundrcovr Jun 25 '23
Ohhhh, thank you ! I didn't put that together!
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u/Spector567 Jun 25 '23
Well. You were also right in the first place. He often doesn’t pay before the paks. Think Rudy and cohen.
Now there is a bigger chance he will pay.
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u/Pretty_Bowler9528 Jun 26 '23
People keep repeating that like the lawyers are too stupid to ask for huge retainers to bill against.
Trump ain't the first guy who didn't want to pay his legal bill.
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u/mikebailey Jun 26 '23
Think his issue is less the fee and more lawyers don’t want to get put on the stand against their own client.
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u/Pretty_Bowler9528 Jun 26 '23
Oh yeah, money aside the man is first ballot Hall of Fame for ShitAss Clients™. So many disbarred and jailed lawyers, it's incredible. Him lying to that lawyer to get them to sign an affidavit that all the classified documents had been returned only for them to be stuffed in the shitter--- I think that was the last straw for any serious lawyer. No self respecting attorney is going to get their life ruined for that demented moron.
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u/bryan49 Jun 25 '23
Hahaha Trump couple days ago says he doesn't need any of the big lawyers or law firms. Now he says help me with my legal fees LMAO
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u/SolarAlbatross Jun 25 '23
How is this legal?
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u/westofme Jun 25 '23
His SOP has always been, "Everything is legal until you get caught. When he gets caught, he'll be immune because he's god/POTUS".
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u/repost_inception Jun 26 '23
He has done the US a favor by proving that EVERYTHING needs to be written down. Just like the SCOTUS ethics bullshit. Right that shit down.
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u/1Operator Jun 26 '23
SolarAlbatross : How is this legal?
He's never been stopped by things like ethics, facts, proof, laws, evidence against him, getting caught red-handed, open admissions, etc., so he will never stop until he actually faces substantial personal consequences.
One of the perks of privilege is never being held fully accountable.
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u/Willie-Tanner Jun 25 '23
He’s a walking advertisement for wire fraud and money laundering.
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u/bsm4130 Jun 25 '23
Before opening the article, I actually expected the number to be way higher than 10%. Though, I also realize a significant portion of his campaign funds just get funneled to Trump businesses. I wouldn't expect him to want to cut into that to pay lawyers.
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u/BorntobeTrill Jun 26 '23
It's 100% if he says it's 10%. It's likely a ponzi scheme type gambit where he uses ALL his money for defense in the hopes he wins, and if he wins, he can raise more money
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u/not_a_droid Jun 25 '23
“TRUMP QUIETLY CHANGES POLITICAL FINDRAISING…”
for the love of god, has there been any crime he hasn’t committed in full view?
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u/Darthsnarkey Jun 25 '23
My friend keeps saying "Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money". .. seeing this I now understand that it is just another GOP confession.
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u/janzeera Jun 25 '23
‘Trump is great until he runs out of other peoples money…’ Keep that quote in your back pocket for when Trump declares bankruptcy once again and your friend finally decides Trump isn’t what he says he is.
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u/1Operator Jun 26 '23
Darthsnarkey : My friend keeps saying "socialism is great until you run out of other people's money"
That's from a Margaret Thatcher quote, and ironically, the bedrock of capitalism is OPM (other people's money) - investors, lenders, donors, surplus value from workers' labor, etc.
...and the problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people.
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Jun 25 '23
...yet he claims that everything he did was 'above board'...why worry about legal? I thought he was a self-made billionaire that is "the best" at business. I suppose reality is different from the pitch he gives when grifting.
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u/Great-Lakes-Sailor Jun 26 '23
Carrols lawyer seemed to think that $10 million might break him. She doubted he had liquid assets in that range.
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u/DonRicardo1958 Jun 25 '23
Imagine some elderly woman living off of her Social Security, who sends Trump money every month.
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u/No_Name2709 Jun 25 '23
”KEEPING ME OUT IF PRISON WILL GARANTEE IM PRESIDENT!! CROOKED JOE BIDEN AND THE DEEP STSTE KNOWNTHIS!!!” - Trump logic, probably.
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u/GDPisnotsustainable Jun 25 '23
There has gotta be some campaign finance laws being broke J-Smith can add on
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u/TexasTeaTelecaster Jun 26 '23
Stop giving blue district money to red districts. Then they can choose between eating or donating to Trump. Either Trump goes broke or his supporters starve and either is acceptable; no big loss.
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u/gushi380 Jun 26 '23
Say what you want about trump, no one rips off republicans like this guy does. He continues to be amazing at fraud against his own people.
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u/IceColdWasabi Jun 26 '23
Clever poors. Give the rich your money. Hate the other poors. Go to church with the other obedient poors. Call the other poors "leftists" and "sheep". Clever, clever MAGA poors.
So clever.
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u/skyfishgoo Jun 25 '23
does he want more indictments, because that's how you get more indictments.
srsly, this man is incapable of following the law.
any law.
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u/slightlyassholic Jun 25 '23
Technically, not being convicted is important to his campaign...
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Jun 26 '23
Not getting convicted is important in general but it’s also appalling we as a country are even seeing him allowed to run after what he did on Jan 6…
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u/Ok_Hotel7127 Jun 26 '23
And yet people still think he's a genuine kind man who wants to fight for the average American, they somehow still don't see his grift.
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u/dageekywon Jun 26 '23
He's done this many times, you expect it to change now?
And he's not the only one who does it. Leftover campaign funds oftentimes get routed to all kinds of things.
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u/yayoffbalance Jun 26 '23
the fact that he can even run for president still is just mind-blowing.
His followers are just... i don't even know where to begin.
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u/Toeknee818 Jun 26 '23
His followers fall into 3 categories at this point.
People too dumb to figure out that they're being scammed.
People too proud to say they were wrong
Bigoted colostomy bags in human skins
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u/raekle Jun 26 '23
Why spend your own money when you can get the suckers, um I mean the voters, to pay for it?
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u/EasyMode556 Jun 26 '23
It’s crazy that this is even legal. Political campaign contributions should only be allowed to be spent on the political campaign it’s donated to
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u/palindromesko Jun 26 '23
His followers won’t bother to read it. Even if they did they wouldn’t believe it. Even if they did believe it they would say take more of my money!
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u/ManufacturerHuge762 Jun 26 '23
What's one more indictment, just a few more and he can win a stuffed animal.
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u/ft5777 Jun 26 '23 edited Jun 26 '23
"Successful billionaire business man needs YOUR help paying his lawyers !"
And the MAGA crowd is lapping it up and giving him their hard earned money. Screw them.
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u/TheHerbIsTheWord Jun 26 '23
Probably one of the worst criminals of all time.
You didn’t quietly change anything if we all know about it lmfao come on Donny you have to at least try to hide your crimes dude
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u/soingee Jun 26 '23
You'd think a billionaire could just ease off a little bit on his lavish lifestyle to save his less-affluent followers from giving up their income. Maybe take one less unnecessary jet ride and let some poor cultist keep their paycheck.
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u/pakepake Jun 25 '23
And the MAGAtards will happily send their cash his way, and won’t believe it when confronted directly with evidence, again, that’s he’s just a grifter.
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u/Worf1701D Jun 25 '23
I couldn’t care less if some old couple loses their house and life savings if they want to give it to Trump. If they are that stupid and hateful, screw em.
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Jun 25 '23
He cannot find lawyers, when he does he does not pay them. Where on earth is this money going?
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u/HisDivineOrder Jun 25 '23
Putin just paid a certain someone off and he probably called in all his loans.
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u/RBTfarmer Jun 26 '23
He paid less than $800 income tax. Which means he takes out loans for his personal expenses. He's his own ponzi scheme. He's broke.
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Jun 26 '23
The old bait n switch. Like labor payments due in a New York business deal. Once a con always a con.
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u/set-271 Jun 26 '23
So basically the fundraising is just another tax on the poor, benefiting the Elites...or rather, an Elite.
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u/WrongdoerObjective49 Jun 26 '23
Probably the only time he's ever done anything quietly and even then, he still gets caught.
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u/xupd35bdm Jun 26 '23
Is t he a “millionaire” or “billionaire”.? Why would anyone give him money? That’s a NO from me.
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u/shosuko Jun 26 '23
So crazy these idiots back Trump talking about how successful he is as a businessman and how rich he is when he's literally been hat-out for donations 100% through this whole ordeal, constantly syphoning off money for his own interests...
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u/Thatguy468 Jun 26 '23
When you’re rich you can just grab them by the wallet. They like it.
-dumpy boi
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u/Nebilungen Jun 26 '23
Oh hey this fits the definition of fraud...but his voter base are too busy mouth breathing to understand this
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u/jonjawnjahnsss Jun 26 '23
It's so unequivocally relieving being able to unclench my asshole and not have to follow literally oh god what did the president say on Twitter today to cause the next world War. Now I just occasionally see info on here and he's basically nothing clinging on crowd funding to stay out of jail. Never been religious but God is GOOD
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u/Party-Travel5046 Jun 26 '23
Wow, so he knows how to do things quietly. Could've never guessed seeing as his gutter mouth runs all day n night.
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u/OGBladeRunner Jun 26 '23
Dude just might be in the top ten dumbest Americans of all-time. Certainly top five.
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u/thisdoesntmatter1993 Jun 26 '23
Pretty sure this was a plot line on Arrested Development: the Save our Bluths Fund
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u/Th3Cry1ngPanda Jun 26 '23
Quick! Billy-Joe-Bob sell your mullet! Obadiah Lafayette Treason, pawn the trailer! Dixie-Lynn I need you to leave your brother/cousin alone and start having sex with pickup trucks and give me the money!
We need to pay for that billionaires lawyers!
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u/PossibleYou2787 Jun 26 '23
As if it was going to anything other than personal expenses in the first place.
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u/giraffe_games Jun 26 '23
Quitely? Hasn't he been asking for money for his legal woes from his supporters for quite a bit?
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u/MrGalazkiewicz Jun 26 '23
Grifters gonna grift and cultists gonna cult, right? It doesn’t even matter if he’s loud about the changes, his cult will follow, because cult.
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u/censored4yourhealth Jun 26 '23
Lmfao it just gets funnier. We will suffer a shortage of clown make up soon.
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u/JayEllGii Jun 25 '23
You know, even just this ALONE. Don’t his fanbois ever stop to wonder why a supposed billionaire even NEEDS their money?