By Baxter
There's a grimly hilarious story in today's New York Times about how the Trump campaign fleeced their supporters online at WinRed and ended up making $122 million in refunds —including to a guy who was in hospice care and whom they snookered out of $3,000. When he realized what was going on, he spent his last days on earth trying to get the money back. He ended up living long enough to see Joe Biden sworn in.
Long story short, the Trumpsters conned people into making recurring contributions with nefarious pre-checked recurring-donation boxes and additional-contribution "money bombs." Their language became more and more opaque and the pre-checked boxes more numerous as Election Day neared and Team Biden outraised them.
Should anyone feel sorry for the duped donors? Of course not. But this disgusting fraud will have negative ramifications for 2022 and beyond. The Republicans thought that WinRed would be their answer to ActBlue, the breathtakingly user-friendly contribution platform that the Democrats use. Instead, WinRed has surely burned donors who will never give again. And with the usurious rates that WinRed is charging campaigns to use it, expect more GOP candidates to refuse to play next time. We cats PURR.
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