trump cult donations
Nope.... not a cult. Just normal people ignoring reality and sending money to a crook.
Read today's Danny Westneat's piece in the Seattle Times.
And weep..
"There’s a school custodian in SeaTac who donated to Donald Trump 172 times last year. She sent Trump some money just about every other day. There’s a retiree in Pullman who gave Trump’s fundraising operation small amounts between $4 and $44 so many times — 165 times — that by the end of 2023 it added up to nearly $4,000. And there’s a self-employed handyman in Shoreline who started pushing the Trump donate button so hard beginning in July — sometimes giving 40 times in a month — that by year’s end he had sent $2,253.
Of all the unusual aspects of the Donald Trump phenomenon, the one I find the most perplexing is the zeal with which his supporters continue to send him money. Federal campaign finance reports, released this past week for the second half of 2023, show that they’re often working-class or retired folks who engage in what amounts to a near-daily Trump tithing, often in $5 or $10 increments."
"The problem is that huge amounts of Trump’s campaign accounts are being spent on legal fees (nearly 50 different law firms got paid), as well as ludicrous expenditures like an $18,000 per month retainer for Melania Trump’s clothing stylist.
As I’ve confessed before, I simply don’t get it. It’s one thing to vote for Trump. But I can’t grasp why anyone would send him money, given the track record. Remember when 45,000 Washingtonians helped him finance an “Election Defense Fund” that, it turned out, didn’t exist? That money was instead spent on Trump-affiliated companies, events and stays at his own hotels and the foundations of his aides and friends."
I asked a Trump donor 'Did you see that Trump spent $55 million of his campaign money on lawyers, for both himself and his associates? Does that trouble you?'
'Not at all, it doesn’t bother me. I don’t know anything about how he’s actually using the money, but I do know that everybody’s attacking him with whatever weapons they have. If he’s defending himself with my money, then that’s more than fine with me.'
An analysis published Friday by the news site Politico outlined how the fundraising works. It found that Trump’s biggest money spikes came not when he gave a speech or got an endorsement, but on the days he got indicted. Trump then channels the grievance for fundraising leverage with his “small donor Army.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/some-wa-trump-donors-are-sending-him-money-every-other-day/?fbclid=IwAR2O1PfIbqss2W1Uj916-PYzMRF7IAHawY6PyD1cz1J9dviKQYyefvt7-yM
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