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highplainsdem

(60,605 posts)
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:17 AM 11 hrs ago

Trump email asks people to give him money or else ICE will assume they are an "illegal alien" and "track you down"

Last edited Wed Jan 28, 2026, 12:03 PM - Edit history (1)

MeidasTouch post with a few screenshots, then a journalist's post with the complete email.


In a new fundraising email, Trump asks people to give him money or else ICE will assume they are an “illegal alien” and “track you down”

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-01-28T15:48:41.675Z




Click the post below for a video with a complete view of the email, posted on Bluesky by journalist Laura Jedeed:

We have achieved a new frontier in MAGA fundraising: pay up or be deported

Laura Jedeed (@laurajedeed.bsky.social) 2026-01-28T13:46:49.969Z
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Trump email asks people to give him money or else ICE will assume they are an "illegal alien" and "track you down" (Original Post) highplainsdem 11 hrs ago OP
HAHA I FUCKING CALLED IT durablend 11 hrs ago #1
That hasn't shown up in my inbox yet. cloudbase 11 hrs ago #2
haha guess you are just not special vapor2 10 hrs ago #13
Oh so now we've enter the ransom note phase of this monsters TERRORISTS. bluestarone 11 hrs ago #3
Fuck that shit...come and get me... MiHale 10 hrs ago #4
God damn!!! PatSeg 10 hrs ago #5
It's real. Saw a number of posts about it on both Bluesky and X. Just added one with video to the OP, highplainsdem 10 hrs ago #12
That is so surreal PatSeg 7 hrs ago #17
Send me money or I'll come to your house and shit on you. (I've got loads of it!) chouchou 10 hrs ago #6
This isn't true. Srkdqltr 10 hrs ago #7
? highplainsdem 10 hrs ago #8
What isn't true? chowder66 9 hrs ago #14
Imagine still donating to him Johonny 10 hrs ago #9
Nice life you have here, patriot. Shame if something happened to it. Eugene 10 hrs ago #10
Just edited the OP to add a Bluesky post with video of the complete email. highplainsdem 10 hrs ago #11
Hard to believe there are people this stupid. GoodRaisin 9 hrs ago #15
Sounds like "Demanding money with menaces" to me dickthegrouch 8 hrs ago #16
At this point, I'll take the deportation. Totally Tunsie 4 hrs ago #18

durablend

(8,945 posts)
1. HAHA I FUCKING CALLED IT
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:19 AM
11 hrs ago

I figured at some point he'll start shaking down the average citizen and threatening them if they don't comply.

bluestarone

(21,519 posts)
3. Oh so now we've enter the ransom note phase of this monsters TERRORISTS.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:23 AM
11 hrs ago

SEND me MONEY or you'll be arrested and sent over seas? FUCK HIM!! I bet there are really DUMB FUCKS that will sent money!!

highplainsdem

(60,605 posts)
12. It's real. Saw a number of posts about it on both Bluesky and X. Just added one with video to the OP,
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 12:07 PM
10 hrs ago

showing the complete email.

Eugene

(66,896 posts)
10. Nice life you have here, patriot. Shame if something happened to it.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:50 AM
10 hrs ago

Even the mob is usually more subtle than "we'll track you down."

Campaign finance laws have something to say about coercion, if only they were enforced.

dickthegrouch

(4,363 posts)
16. Sounds like "Demanding money with menaces" to me
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 02:12 PM
8 hrs ago

Or perhaps just plain old extortion.
Every State AG should be prosecuting this.

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