1y ago

Donald Trump GoFundMe raises $84K of $355 million target in 24 hours

www.newsweek.com /donald-trump-gofundme-raises-84k-355-million-target-24-hours-1870940

An online fundraiser for former President Donald Trump has racked up $84,354 out of a $355 million target in just 24 hours following the final judgement in his civil fraud trial in New York.

On Friday, Trump was fined roughly $355 million by New York Judge Arthur Engoron following a monthslong trial. The trial was to determine how much Trump and his associates would pay after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit in September 2022 accusing the former president, his two adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, The Trump Organization and two firm executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney of fraudulently overvaluing assets to secure more favorable bank loans and taxation deals.

The former president was also barred from doing business in New York for three years. Other defendants in the case also faced financial penalties and were banned from doing business in New York for periods of time. Meanwhile, Trump, who is the GOP frontrunner in the 2024 presidential election, has denied any wrongdoing and claims the case was politically motivated.

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Any Trump supporters out there, I want you to think about something.
One of the reasons you originally supported Trump is that he was supposedly rich enough to fund his own campaign. Then you sent him - supposedly a man worth $10 billion at one point - piles of money. He begged you for it over and over. He needed your help to fight the system, to "stop the steal," to "make America great again," and you gladly opened your wallets without ever wondering why a billionaire needed your money and couldn't fund his campaigns on his own.
That billionaire now has a GoFundMe. Roll that around in your head. He has a GoFundMe because he can't (or won't) spend his own earned income as a billionaire real-estate tycoon to settle judgments against him that - by his own claims - amount to roughly 1/20th his net worth.
Why? Try to explain why in a way that doesn't make you sound like the world's biggest sucker and the victim of a con artist.
- Any Trump supporters out there
  Literally zero of them browse here. Your message is simply echoing in here. You should post it to Truth Social or Hexbear or whatever shithole they peruse and let us know here what their replies are.
  
  You know what will happen, the post will be deleted and the account will be banned.
  
  Based on my experience... Nextdoor
  
  A good argument can still be read and later used on by someone who does read here.
  Or used by some future machine learning project.
  All communication creates ripples
  
  Hexbear is Commies no?
- If those Trump supporters could read they would be very upset
- Trump the billionaire welfare queen
  
  Just like all billionaires. Except that he’s not a billionaire.
- All conning and bs aside, wealthy mantra is "why use your money, when you can use someone else's?" Even if trump actually did have $10,000,000,000 in assets....Hell; even in cash, he'd still try and get other saps to pay for shit for his benefit. The guy is a d-bag.
- Beyond that, the entire GoFundMe is against the terms and services of the EULA on GoFundMe. You aren't allowed to raise money for "alleged or actual crimes," since this is a legal judgement, it's not just an alleged crime. It fits the definition of an actual crime.
  The golden Trump shoes are actually legal money laundering.
- Campaign finance laws
  
  How do campaign finance laws prevent him from spending his own money on his campaigns?
  
  Candidates are free to sink as much of their own money into a campaign as they wish.
If my math is correct, at that rate, he only has a little less than 11 years to go to raise the target amount!
- Nah, I read in another thread that interest on it was beyond that, but at about 5%, that's nearly 50k/day.
  
  Compound interest is complicated but I figure at least 30 years if $84k per day holds up. Of course Don only has a few years left so why would the donations keep coming?
  
  Judgements in NY State have an interest rate of 9%. And he has to pay it within 30 days. This isn't going to raise that much and it'll be stolen anyway.
The GoFundMe is run by a random follower of his. Remember that guy who was raising money to pay for the wall and then just took the money and disappeared?
- I wish I would have thought of it first this time 😔
  
  Fraud? You wish you thought of fraud the first time? You do realize that no one who engaged in fraud, et al, for that cheeto stain has gotten any help in avoiding criminal charges, right? It's probably for the best that you didn't think of fraud first.
- That was Steve Bannon, and he received a presidential pardon for it.
  
  It was Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage. Bannon was pardoned but Kolfage is sitting in FMC Rochester until 2027.
  But this GoFundMe is by the wife of "financial influencer" Grant Cardone, who has been sued by investors for fraud multiple times. Also a Scientologist, so that tracks.
84K that isn't going to go into a superPAC, to another candidate, to the RNC, or get spent to campaign for trump.
Imagine being so stupid and depraved as to give money to help bail out a supposed billionaire (and rapist).
Oh man, they raised 0.024% of the judgement in 24 hours! ((84,000/350,000,000)*100 to yield percent)
If they manage to do that once a day every year, it'll only take them (350,000,000/84,000/365) 11 years to pay if off!
I wish I was unethical enough to grift the shit out of those rubes.
- Ah, not qualified to be a billionaire I see.
- It's completely ethical to trick fascists out of their money following basic harm reduction principles.
- You need an MBA first.
Oh before he needed $355 million, now he only needs $355 million. That $84K is an unnoticeable drop in the bucket. 😂 😂 😂
- I thought Trump was worth billions. That's what he likes to tell everyone. $355 million should just be pocket change for him, right?
  
  Hopefully soon enough he won't even be a millionaire.... Hopefully
  
  His worth depends on his mood, so I guess it's the court that's to blame, for ruining his mood, so he can't afford the fine.
  I seriously doubt he can afford the fines, which combined and with interest are upwards of $400 million. Then again Kushner got about a billion from the Arabs, doing favors while Trump was president. So maybe Trump got more?
See, Russian money is currently tight because of the war. Bad timing orange old man.
- I wonder if it actually is harder for them to funnel payments to things like the Trump campaign due to the war (and sanctions). I'm sure Putin and friends are not strapped for cash if a Trump victory is on the menu. Maybe they don't think the fraud fine is a detriment to Trump's chances?
  
  They like him weak so he begs harder and sells out cheaper.
- No, it is because Voronezh's budget hasn't been finalized. They will cut healthcare, schools and transport AND THEN Trump will get money.
Perhaps the MAGA base is finally running out of money for their champion to piss away. Though if they had any more, I'm sure Trump would be willing to spend to his very last supporter.
Donny holding up a bucket waiting for the billionaires and millionaires who benefitted from his tax reform to trickle down in his direction:
- It's hilarious watching people he doesn't control (and aren't terminally stupid or desperate, like the rubes who agree to be his lawyer because THIS time he'll really pay them, pinky swear) hang his ass out to dry.
At this rate it’ll only take about 11 1/2 years to raise the full 355m.
- The rate of interest is close to $1M per week... So 84k/day won't even cover the interest he owes
- If you count the $4 million that each of his sons owe and the interest already accrued they actually owe $464 million. It was a very bad day for the Trump crime family.
  
  Oh well.
- Plenty of dudes have already beaten you to the punch. They blast people with texts that all go to fake donor sites like winred.com that then beg you to make $3,300 donations.
  Hell, winred.com is just as much the same scam.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIOrTvPdFwQ
  Winred still operates.
  
  Doesn't mean you can't make more.
  With $15 (for domain and hosting), you too can funnel money from MAGA with a donation site to "help"!
  
  I think winred has inserted themselves into the RepubliQan donation scam, too. I think campaigns are required to use them.
- Reminds me of when the PS3 first went on sale and people sold pictures of a PS3 on eBay. The title said it was a picture, the content said it was a picture, but people were impatient, didn't read and bought the auctions. I thought that was a bit manipulative then, but I would not feel bad if people did this to Trump supporters. IANAL but I don't think it's illegal as long as you don't say you'll do something and then not do it.
- The debt goes up by a million dollars every week due to interest.
- Let him do that! It would both ruin is self-imposed image of a "business genius", and would lead to a surprised pikatchu face when he notices that his fines will not go away just because of the bankruptcy!
“Fools and their money are soon parted.”
Still 84K too much
I can't wait until he launches his competitor to Star Citizen.
So if you divide it out, that’s 0.0023% of the fine.
Today’s goal is $600,000,000, we just need to sell enough magazine subscriptions and all of our food stamps. This is totally achievable! Now let’s get out there and support the TRUE 51TH PRESIDENT!
- Obligatory
  
  I had not seen that clip before. It’s perfect!
- Now let’s get out there and support the TRUE 51TH PRESIDENT
  Oh wait, this is for Eric, too? Count me in!
When you're funding your successful billionaire businessman president to pay his court fees on the same platform used to pay for people's medical bills do you ever think maybe capitalism might have failed us?
Holy fuck the alleged billionaire needs a Go fund me. Pull your finger out of your ass bud, you're spare parts.
The goal, ha!
$45/avg grift (least this time the fund’s purpose isn’t buried in the fine print)
- How much does gofundme charge for their service?
  
  There’s no fee to start or manage your fundraiser. However, to help us operate safely and securely, one small transaction fee (2.9% + $0.30, which includes debit and credit charges) per donation is deducted.
  Very fair, same as PayPal and perhaps Stripe. But they’ll need a few extra million.
I hope someone is carefully monitoring these donations to determine origin....
Trump literally wouldn't even qualify for a Secret/L.
Let's see him rant against his own followers here. You know he can't refuse.
- Oh but if they don't fund him, they aren't his followers. Just like every politician that he endorses who loses he never cared for and knows they never liked him.
Wouldn't be surprised if most of those are donations from Russian bots
- The Russians and Saudis are going to buy his $400 sneakers he's selling now.
Almost there.
- A foreign payment takes few days to clear...
Not much of a millionaire if he needs a go fund me lol and if the donors lose their money I’m ok with that. They deserve it.
Lol look at his cute little tiny fist
Wah-wah
This is the best summary I could come up with:
An online fundraiser for former President Donald Trump has racked up $84,354 out of a $355 million target in just 24 hours following the final judgement in his civil fraud trial in New York.
On Friday, Trump was fined roughly $355 million by New York Judge Arthur Engoron following a monthslong trial.
The trial was to determine how much Trump and his associates would pay after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit in September 2022 accusing the former president, his two adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, The Trump Organization and two firm executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney of fraudulently overvaluing assets to secure more favorable bank loans and taxation deals.
Cardone called herself "an ardent supporter of American values and an advocate for justice" who stands "unwaveringly with President Donald Trump" on the fundraising page.
"Let's stand with Trump to ensure that justice prevails and that we continue to fight for a country that respects freedom, honors courage, and rewards the unwavering spirit of its people."
His lawyer Christopher Kise told Newsweek that Trump plans to appeal the judge's ruling in James' "unjust political crusade against the front-running candidate for President of the United States."
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At the rate he's spending money on losing in court and associated legal fees, this will probably last no more than a week before he needs more money
Nowhere near enough.
This is such a dumbass story. You people know it wasn't Trump who started the GoFundMe, right? It's just some rando?
The only thing of interest is how idiotic the people who donated 84k are.
- Not some rando, this guy's wife.
  
  You don't know her or him, still a rando

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