Name:   GoneFishin - Subject:   The DOC with blinders Date:   4/6/2021 7:23:15 PM (updated 4/6/2021 7:30:54 PM)

I am shocked by you comment.

You are a Doc and you missed it. Give me a break...here is the sad story of the hospice patient. It was a SCAM and you fell fell for it and made a "simple call". It was a con game and you finally figured it out. How could someone with your credentials miss it? Honest solicittions aren't designed to con the supporters like Trump did. There is NO excuse...kinda like defending Gaetz. 

"One has to have a limited intelligence quotient not to have been aware of the recurring contribution and fixed it immediately." Obviously, that was Trump's intent that his supporters are of limited intelligence quotient and would miss it. 

There comes a point where one has to admit their hero was just plain dishonest in approving a misleading solicitation to HIS supporters. To justify it by suggesting "a simple call" is somewhat intellectually dishonest. Time to admit...Trump screwed up.

April 3, 2021

Stacy Blatt was in hospice care last September listening to Rush

Limbaugh’s dire warnings about how badly Donald J. Trump’s

campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in

everything he could: $500.

It was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in

Kansas City on less than $1,000 per month. But that single

contribution — federal records show it was his first ever — quickly

multiplied. Another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500

the next week and every week through mid-October, without his

knowledge — until Mr. Blatt’s bank account had been depleted and

frozen. When his utility and rent payments bounced, he called his

brother, Russell, for help.

What the Blatts soon discovered was $3,000 in withdrawals by the

Trump campaign in less than 30 days. They called their bank and

said they thought they were victims of fraud.

“It felt,” Russell said, “like it was a scam.”

But what the Blatts believed was duplicity was actually an

intentional scheme to boost revenues by the Trump campaign and

the for-profit company that processed its online donations,

WinRed. Facing a cash crunch and getting badly outspent by the

Democrats, the campaign had begun last September to set up

recurring donations by default for online donors, for every week

until the election.

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.