Report: Trump Has Raised More Than $150M On Election Fraud Propaganda

President Donald Trump listens during an event commemorating the repatriation of Native American remains and artifacts from the Republic of Finland in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, Washington, DC.(Photo by Oliver Contreras/For The New York Times)
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 17: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office during an event commemorating the repatriation of Native American remains and artifacts from Finland on September 17, 2020 in Washi... WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 17: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office during an event commemorating the repatriation of Native American remains and artifacts from Finland on September 17, 2020 in Washington, DC. The remains were taken in 1891 by a Swedish researcher from what is now Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado and were eventually housed at the National Museum of Finland prior to repatriation. (Photo by Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Trump’s political operation has raised more than $150 million in a shameless push to line its post-election pockets the Washington Post reported late Monday.

The fundraising effort, which comes at a time that most losing campaigns begin to wind down their fundraising calls, has been buoyed by false claims about election fraud. Those efforts have shattered records set during the campaign people with knowledge of the contributions told the Post.

The piling political donations, coming primarily from small-dollar donors, is among the top reasons Trump is enticed to carry on about election fraud, taking time in court to promote long debunked conspiracies about a stolen election.

In spite of fronting that the money will be used for a legal war on election fraud, a  majority of the cash raised since the election is likely to go into an account for the President to use on political activities after he leaves office, the Post said.

“Trump is making hay while the sun is shining. He’s taking advantage of all the free media coverage to pay off his campaign debt and fill his coffers for whatever comes next,” Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor told the Post.

Recent reports have also suggested that Trump is considering a 2024 presidential run and has considered ways to disrupt the incoming Biden presidency, including an event during President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration week in January.

The deluge of donations, comes as the Trump campaign has waged a fundraising blitz, sending about 500 donation pleas since the election according to the Post’s count, and often making wild claims about voter fraud which has resonated with Trump loyalists

The far-reaching propaganda push to sow doubt about election integrity, have even dampened efforts to energize voters in Georgia amid upcoming Senate runoff elections in the state that will determine which party holds Senate majority.

After the election, the Trump Make America Great Again Committee  began sharing its funds with Save America, a new leadership PAC that Trump set up in early November.

The leadership PAC’s loose regulations could allow for funds to personally benefit Trump after he departs the White House, the Post said, noting that an overwhelming majority of low-dollar donations under the current agreement would go toward financing Trump’s PAC, instead of efforts to support the party or to support its lawsuits on baseless voter fraud.

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  1. Don’t the solicitations themselves constitute mail fraud? That is what a Biden AG should go after Trump for: defrauding his supporters.

  2. Avatar for tao tao says:

    He will steal from his bitches as long as they are in his cult.

  3. the Trump Make America Great Again Committee began sharing its funds with Save America, a new leadership PAC that Trump set up in early November.

    You know, a caviler could ask why we must now Save America after we just spent four long years Making America Great Again.

    But I’m no caviler.

  4. Avatar for docd docd says:

    Doesn’t it seem like he would have been able to raise more? We’ve had non-stop coverage of his battle to overturn the election results, and with sending out over 500 pleas for donations you would think that the 70 million + who voted for him would respond. While 150 million is nothing to sneeze at, it isn’t anywhere close to what you might need to convince people that there is a groundswell of support. It’s clear that he doesn’t plan to pay his legal team, but there are still expenses that have to be paid upfront. He’s going to need to raise a lot more than this, even if it is just to pay off the debts that are coming due this year.
    (“This year” is inaccurate. I meant the debts that are coming due within a few years.)

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