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06-14-2022, 07:50 AM
https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2022/06/trump-raised-250m-for-election-defense-fund-which-did-not-exist-jan-6-hearings.html
Trump raised $250 million off the ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign
The House Select Committee detailed an effort in which the Trump campaign used false voter fraud claims to raise hundreds of millions from small donors and redirected the money to organizations close to the former president.
“Not only was there the Big Lie, there was the big rip-off,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D- San Jose), who helped lead the presentation at Monday’s hearing.
In a previously recorded video, Amanda Wick, senior investigative counsel to the House Select Committee, said the evidence presented “highlights how the Trump campaign aggressively pushed false election claims to fundraise — telling supporters it would be used to fight voter fraud that did not exist.”
Between the November election in 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021, the Trump campaign sent millions of fundraising emails to his supporters — sometimes as many as 25 a day — spreading falsehoods about voter fraud and urging recipients to “step up” and “fight back” against the “left-wing mob.”
The effort yielded the Trump campaign over $250 million — in just the first week following the election, they raised $100 million, Wick said.
The emails, primarily sent to “small-dollar donors,” urged donations to Trump’s “official election defense fund,” which did not exist.
The House Select Committee played audio from previously recorded interviews with Trump campaign staffers who said the naming of the fund was for marketing purposes.
The bulk money instead went to the “Save America PAC,” which donated millions to pro-Trump groups.
The Conservative Partnership Institution, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ foundation, and the American First Police Institution, which employs former Trump officials, each received $1 million. Event Strageties Inc., which ran Trump’s rally on Jan. 6, received $5 million, while the Trump Hotel Collection received $204, 857.
The money largely did not go toward campaign litigation, Wick said. The Capitol was breached half an hour after the final fundraising email was sent on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Donors deserve to know where their funds are really going,” Lofgren said. “They deserve better than what President Trump and his team did.”]
Another flimflam ripoff.
Trump raised $250 million off the ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign
The House Select Committee detailed an effort in which the Trump campaign used false voter fraud claims to raise hundreds of millions from small donors and redirected the money to organizations close to the former president.
“Not only was there the Big Lie, there was the big rip-off,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D- San Jose), who helped lead the presentation at Monday’s hearing.
In a previously recorded video, Amanda Wick, senior investigative counsel to the House Select Committee, said the evidence presented “highlights how the Trump campaign aggressively pushed false election claims to fundraise — telling supporters it would be used to fight voter fraud that did not exist.”
Between the November election in 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021, the Trump campaign sent millions of fundraising emails to his supporters — sometimes as many as 25 a day — spreading falsehoods about voter fraud and urging recipients to “step up” and “fight back” against the “left-wing mob.”
The effort yielded the Trump campaign over $250 million — in just the first week following the election, they raised $100 million, Wick said.
The emails, primarily sent to “small-dollar donors,” urged donations to Trump’s “official election defense fund,” which did not exist.
The House Select Committee played audio from previously recorded interviews with Trump campaign staffers who said the naming of the fund was for marketing purposes.
The bulk money instead went to the “Save America PAC,” which donated millions to pro-Trump groups.
The Conservative Partnership Institution, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ foundation, and the American First Police Institution, which employs former Trump officials, each received $1 million. Event Strageties Inc., which ran Trump’s rally on Jan. 6, received $5 million, while the Trump Hotel Collection received $204, 857.
The money largely did not go toward campaign litigation, Wick said. The Capitol was breached half an hour after the final fundraising email was sent on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Donors deserve to know where their funds are really going,” Lofgren said. “They deserve better than what President Trump and his team did.”]
Another flimflam ripoff.