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LMAO and the grift continues...

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Yet another example of how a fool and their money are easily parted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

He's a successful Billionaire Businessman!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

America is a shit show.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Gotta give it to the hill for not linking to the actual page

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

"I'm gonna continue to commit crimes, and America is gonna pay for it!"

  • Donald J. Trump
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

No matter who you vote for, your life isn't going to improve unless YOU do something about it. People have been fighting about politics since politics began. You're not special. Put that energy into something useful.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The top donation is $5k, but I'm tempted to think that was someone associated with him making a huge donation to make MAGA followers think that people are giving that much. I just can't imagine a middle-class person doing that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Seeding the tip jar.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Or money laundering

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Trump knows his supporters will do this for him.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Isn't it funny how crowd funding is like socialism but him and his people think it's evil and bad...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The gofundme description stars like this:

My name is Elena Cardone and I am a wife of Grant Cardone, mother and an ardent supporter of American values and an advocate for justice, I stand unwaveringly with President Donald Trump in the face of what I see as unprecedented and unfair treatment by certain judicial elements in New York.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

“a wife of Grant Cardone”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Sister wife?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

It's a life achievement! That said, I thought he was gay. I guess they're just sucking up to trump now

[–] [email protected] 138 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

From GoFundMe terms, prohibited uses;

  1. the legal defense of alleged financial and violent crimes;

So I reported it. I'm very interested if they're going to let this slide because that kind of makes their terms of service open for legal challenge if they decide to block someone else for a similar thing, i.e. paying of fines for financial fraud.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Technically it's not paying for his defense :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Oooo I want to report it to!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago

"alleged ... crimes"

.... Court decided he was guilty. There is no alleged about it lol

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago

They're going to tell you to go fund yourself.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

They'll probably make an exception because those crimes are not alleged anymore. If they don't... this, but with Trump supporters.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Please keep us informed!

[–] [email protected] 163 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Donate to the GoFundMe of the guy who leaked Trump’s tax returns instead https://www.gofundme.com/f/charles-littlejohns-legal-defense-fund

He got 5 years in prison so we could all see Trump’s grift.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Insane that he got the absolute max sentence for the "crime" he committed. It's such a gross signal. Had he taken hundreds of random Joe's tax returns and leaked to the press absolutely nothing would have happened and if he even got caught, like by turning himself in, he would've gotten a mild sentence. But now it was wealthy and powerful folk and thus he gets hammered as hard as the law allows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This is a message to our ENEMIES around the World that there's SERIOUS HARSH PUNISHMENTS if they leak a Rich Person's Tax Returns! So they better stick to JUST Violent Insurrection and attempted Assassination of Government Officials INSTEAD!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago

Compare that to the paltry wrist slaps the capitol insurrectionists got.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I should do a gofundme to “help Trump supporter get the legal defense spending Trump deserves.” You guys are cool with me buying a castle with the money, right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Only if you invite me to a feast on the castle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'll also contribute on the condition of a feast

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Shrödinger’s billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They raised $200,000 already?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Raised or laundered?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

People are seriously stupid

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Just realized how to destroy GoFundMe - have the platform allow negative donations.

You want them to be $100 further from their goal? Fucking sure pass the cash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To clarify... would you, a user, donate 100 dollars to the platform to push the campaign further from the goal? Or would you as the user graciously offer to be paid 100$ to move Trump further from their goal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It would have to be the former to not be completely broken.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

The fucking idiots just line up

[–] [email protected] 69 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Trump is not a billionaire, never was. No one that rich needs everyone to pay his bills.
He is just a welfare brat scamming people. Everything he owns is mortgaged to the hilt.
MAGA exists to financially support #TraitorTrump.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Alternatively, he might be a billionaire now with the insanely inflated land bubble valuations.

And cheating people out of their money is absolutely on brand for billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I was going to say... people that rich never pay their bills.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  • J. Paul Getty
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