GOP Fundraiser WinRed Flips Sh*t Over Investigation Of Its Grifty Donor Schemes

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.wonkette.com/gop-fundraiser-winred-flips-sh-t-over-investigation-of-its-grifty-donor-schemes

Remember back in April when the New York Times ran a series of stories about the Trump campaign grifting cash from the rubes using pre-checked boxes to trick them into recurring and double donations? Heck, remember back in 2016, when Wonkette wrote about people unable to cancel their Trump campaign donations, and people with poor reading comprehension started writing to Rebecca, asking her to cancel for them? Apparently the attorneys general from New York, Maryland, Minnesota, and Connecticut read those stories, too — probably the New York Times series, not the Wonkette ones — and decided to do something about it.

On April 29, these state law enforcement officers sent letters to WinRed and ActBlue, the dominant fundraising platforms for Republicans and Democrats respectively, demanding to know all kinds of interesting details about their business and fundraising models. At which point, WinRed flipped its shit, because it has seen what New York AG Tish James did to the NRA, and it ain't pretty.

As a reminder, the Trump campaign was spamming its donors with emails that featured pre-checked boxes opting them in to recurring donations that wildly exceeded both their intentions and federal campaign finance limits.

Burying it under a mountain of incendiary verbiage is a nice touch.

And while ActBlue has, in the past, allowed candidates to use pre-checked boxes, there's a reason that the Trump campaign had to return 10.7 percent of the money it raised in 2020, compared to just 2.2 percent for the Biden campaign. And that reason is that Trump was running out of money for ads in the final months of the campaign, so he ramped up the fundraising grift to 11, effectively forcing his donors to lend him $120 million in excessive campaign contributions which could be repaid after the election.

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[captain queeg]

1. Don't understand the term "flips shit" as used here

Used several times but no explanation of what it might mean

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Winred is a scam site that cheats donors

I really like ActBlue