How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations

[Zeedox]

How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations (Published 2021)

Online donors were guided into weekly recurring contributions. Demands for refunds spiked. Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared. But the money helped keep Donald Trump’s struggling campaign afloat.

www.nytimes.com

Contributors had to wade through a fine-print disclaimer and manually uncheck a box to opt out.

As the election neared, the Trump team made that disclaimer increasingly opaque, an investigation by The New York Times showed. It introduced a second prechecked box, known internally as a “money bomb,” that doubled a person’s contribution. Eventually its solicitations featured lines of text in bold and capital letters that overwhelmed the opt-out language.

 

[Gomez Adams]

If it has the name Trump on it, you can bet you're getting screwed.

That's like the article about Ivanka 'Empowering Women' grift. It all went to her.

 

[Hugo Stiglitz]

He loves the uneducated. Stupid fucks deserved what they got.

 

[Grimhogun]

How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations (Published 2021)

Online donors were guided into weekly recurring contributions. Demands for refunds spiked. Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared. But the money helped keep Donald Trump’s struggling campaign afloat.

www.nytimes.com

I got duped into one of those by a game site. I signed up for a discount but I didn't see where if you didn't uncheck the box you got a subscription. It was only 3 dollars per month so I only lost three dollars because once I saw it I disabled it and left a really shitty review on them. That's how business is done now. just fuck people over. Trick and hide and decieve people to make money. It should be illegal!

 

[Hugo Stiglitz]

It's like all the EULAs everyone checks when they install apps and games. You'd have to have a team of lawyers spend a week deciphering all the bullshit to understand what it means.

 

[Zeedox]

It's like all the EULAs everyone checks when they install apps and games. You'd have to have a team of lawyers spend a week deciphering all the bullshit to understand what it means.

Oh man South Park did a really good episode on that:

 

[Gomez Adams]

That was hysterical!