Since members of the British Parliament have complained about receiving several fundraising emails from Donald Trump, politicians in several other foreign countries have revealed that they’ve also been flooded with email requests for donations from Trump.
Members of parliament in Australia, Iceland, Denmark, and Finland have all received the emails, according to news reports and tweets from the politicians.
Tim Watts, an Australian member of parliament, told TPM’s Josh Marshall on Twitter that he has received several fundraising emails from the Trump campaign, and that he believes all Australian members of parliament have gotten the emails as well.
@joshtpm @PatrickRuffini from what I can see, every Australian MP too. Even the left wing ones #ImWithHer
— Tim Watts MP (@TimWattsMP) June 29, 2016
@joshtpm @PatrickRuffini pic.twitter.com/wpV348Hws7
— Tim Watts MP (@TimWattsMP) June 29, 2016
@joshtpm Four since Friday, but I’m sure there have been more that my office has just deleted as spam. pic.twitter.com/hv95jH6AJX
— Tim Watts MP (@TimWattsMP) June 29, 2016
Another member of the Australian parliament chimed in to say she’d also been getting the emails.
@TimWattsMP maybe it’s a Westy thing. Me too. Just what I need popping up in the inbox. #swiplefttodelete
— Joanne Ryan MP (@JoanneRyanLalor) June 24, 2016
The Trump campaign has also asked members of parliament in Iceland for campaign contributions, according to Icelandic media. At least three Icelandic members of parliament have received a Trump fundraising email, according to the Iceland Monitor. A couple members of parliament told the Morgublaðið newspaper that they had received emails, according to a report in Iceland Magazine.
“This whole matter is very perplexing. The letter left me speechless,” Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the head of Iceland’s Left Green Party, reportedly said.
And a member of parliament in Denmark, Ida Auken, revealed on Twitter that she had also received a fundraising email from Trump.
UK MPs got fundraising mails from @realDonaldTrump like us. US-Candidates are not allowed to receive foreign funding https://t.co/oUtLA0ENyh
— Ida Auken (@IdaAuken) June 29, 2016
@jensschott @joshtpm yes pic.twitter.com/2CJ6MO8hMx
— Ida Auken (@IdaAuken) June 29, 2016
Anders Adlercreutz, a member of parliament in Finland, also said on Twitter that Finnish elected officials have received the fundraising pleas from Trump.
.@joshtpm @TPM … Spam mail also received by MP:s in Finland.
— Anders Adlercreutz (@adleande) June 29, 2016
And Kim Campbell, a former Canadian prime minister, said she received one of the emails from the Trump campaign as well.
Rec’d a fundraising email from Trump campaign! Says it is their first. Aside from fact I am Cdn, clearly they don’t follow me on Twitter!1/2
— Kim Campbell (@AKimCampbell) June 21, 2016
Trump fundraising letter said it wd match funds if I donated w/in 48 hours- (and wd give me a big discount on the Brooklyn Bridge! )2/2
— Kim Campbell (@AKimCampbell) June 21, 2016
British members of parliament complained this week that they had been flooded with fundraising requests from the Trump campaign.
“Quite why you think it appropriate to write emails to UK parliamentarians with a begging bowl for your father’s repugnant campaign is completely beyond me,” Scottish MP Natalie McGaraff wrote in the email to Trump’s son complaining about the fundraising emails. “Given his rhetoric on migrants, refugees and immigration, it seems quite extraordinary that he would be asking for money; especially people who view his dangerous divisiveness with horror.”
Another British member of parliament, Sir Roger Gale, asked the House of Commons to address the influx of spam from Trump.
“Members of Parliament are being bombarded by electronic communications from Team Trump on behalf of somebody called Donald Trump,” Sir Roger Gale reportedly told the Speaker of the House of Commons. “Mr Speaker, I’m all in favour of free speech but I don’t see why colleagues on either side of the House should be subjected to intemperate spam.”
The Trump campaign has not responded to TPM’s request for comment on the emails.
Trump may not make President but he’s already the world’s Nigerian email prince…
Oh, no, no, no, no! This is no accident. Yesterday, I was willing to say, okay, this is the first time and you’re new at this, etc., but, no: These solicitations are deliberate and illegal. Trump’s campaign needs to be fined for each and every solicitation. FEC, please, follow up on this – and FAST.
Seriously…I’ve seen middle-school class president campaigns better run than this dumpster fire.
Ms. MacNeal, you may want to correct Josh’s name here.