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Donald Trump GoFundMe raises $84K of $355 million target in 24 hours (www.newsweek.com)

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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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[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 26 points 9 months ago

Man, i want some of that sweet rube money.

If hypothetically, i created a gofundme that said something along the lines of 'help support me support trump' and it had a bunch of weasel words that sounded supportive of him but just boiled down to me using the money to pay my bills while thinking about supportive scaffolding, would that be illegal?

[-] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

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"!

[-] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

I wonder if you could astro turf the hell out of this. Go deeper. Make it fun!

Make a fake identity for your company's parent company that parodies this guy https://gerritlansing.org/about-2/. Hire an actor on fiver to be red white and blue all over, set up your secret island bank accounts in the Seychelles and then go full Kojima mode lalilulelo, metal gear?! nanomachies?! etc etc.

It could be self funding ARG that protects its "fraud" as an artistic work. Qanons would eat it up.

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