@CommonDreams (Common Dreams) posted a new topic, subject "Fine Print of RNC-Trump "Election Fraud" Fundraising Shows Half the Money Can Go to Pay Off Existing Campaign Debt". It read:

   Originally published at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/06/fine-print-rnc-trump-election-fraud-fundraising-shows-half-money-can-go-pay-existing

After which, @Aleph_Null (Aleph Null) added

    Garbenstangled concoctions of kitsch are compiled as we speak – ginsu knives with the former president's mug embossed on each handle – cooked up for late-night TV ads combining some fundraising outreach with a little more hucksterism. The last four years have been a very tedious commercial.
    
    Order now to get your own train-wreck souvenirs the whole family can treasure. Time is limited.

After which, @A_Wobblie_Weeble (Not falling down) added

    “There's a sucker born every minute.” P. T. Barnum.

After which, @gandolf (gary cummings) added

    Eric trump sent out an e-mail begging for dollars. If I had his money I'd burn mine.

To which @WiseOwl replied

    Done with the CHUMP!

@Ryan_Heaney (Ryan Heaney) replied

    I am confused the fine print says 5%

Then @bushrodl said

    and then: “lock him up”!

Then @bushrodl said

    Lawyers go to school for 3 years to learn how to say things we can't understand but they can. Confusion is intentional. (I have no idea what the 5% means either)

So @webwalk (webster walker) replied

    Plus it says “5% up to $2800 ($5000) to campaign debt, plus 95% up to $35,500 ($15,000) to RNC operations, plus any additional funds up to $213,000 ($90,000) to RNC legal proceedings OR headquarters account.” These numbers just don't add up, nohow.
    
    Maybe further information is below the cutoff line of the retweet where we can't see it?

@oldie (PEACE ) replied

    “Critics, however, smelled a grift” from the article.
    
    All campaign funds, unspent, become the personal property of the office holder, when they retire - _**tax free**_. We already know he would not pay taxes on it in any case, anyway.
    
    So, Trump does not pay the consultants, advertising invoices, etc. and hangs onto cash in his  
    campaign fund. Perhaps PAC loot will flow some in also.

Then @Upthepeople (Michael Keleher) said

    What?! A Trump deal that skims money for Trump? Say it ain't so.

After which, @Upthepeople (Michael Keleher) added

    I'm guessing your dollars would be more flammable than a Trump-purported wealth dollar.

@Upthepeople (Michael Keleher) replied

    …and they grow up to become avid partisans of the red and blue halves of the Oligarch's government.

To which @Standish_Buttflap (Philbin Hovercraft) replied

    > like public relation stunts
    
    The definitive description of Donald J. Trump, the individual.

So @raydelcamino replied

    Anybody who wants to become an expert at marketing need not go to college…just study Trump. Trump has demonstrated a better understanding of and application of marketing than all of the marketing professors combined.

@mrsannhitts replied

    Those massive Trump tax cuts in 2017 are providing lots of real " kickback " scenarios. This is one of them.  
    Can I send inflated stocks in real estate developments and skyscraping hotel towers in lieu of cash? How about golf course and country club memberships in the Middle East and Indonesia instead of Yanqui dollars?  
    Trump's grifts are so big he doesn't need 4 more years. He and his family need about 10 to 15 years, though.  
    What a set of huevos. Does Deutsche Bank have a bank big enough to hold both of them and Trumps debts?  
    Just asking for a real hater.

Then @timebr said

    Just as I had predicted, he will next lose the golf courses, the hotels, his pretty wife, then all of his kids will be turning on him. It astounds me that so many people in America are so dumb to have elected him 4 years go and vote for him again. The people of conscience have an urgent and immediate obligation to educate the children right and tell them the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, always.

@timebr replied

    He has also baffled the psychologists, psychiatrists and social scientists, to name a few. It seems Americans will always be buying the snake oil if packaged correctly.

Then @timebr said

    There will be movies made of this most fraudulent dupe con artist ever alive to rule America for four er make that almost two four yearses. What does that say about the “dumb American”.

To which @Dylan_Kidd (Dylan Kidd) replied

    RNC = Republican National Cickstarter

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