Donald Trump has admitted he decided to run for President because it appeared to be a way he could make money. Once in office he screwed taxpayers by having the government and Republican political groups fill the cash registers at his private clubs. But, payments for food and lodging for Secret Service and Administration personnel was not enough for The Donald. When Donald Trump’s campaign budget was largely tapped this fall, his staff resorted to deceptive online fundraising practices that tricked donors into signing up to make extra or recurring credit card payments. According to a New York Times report, the strategies, which involved automatically checking boxes above language consenting to the donations buried below lines and lines of near gibberish, sparked a huge number of complaints, which helped push the campaign to refund an eye popping $64.3 million dollars. According to insiders interviewed by the Times in credit card fraud departments, complaints about unwanted and unexpected charges from Trump donors accounted for as much as 3% of all traffic for periods during the campaign—a stunning number when compared to the massive amount of non-political credit card transactions the companies process. “It felt,” one victim tells the Times, “like it was a scam.” Anyone else who ripped off the public to the extent of Trump would be either in jail or waiting trial.
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