Posted on 06/14/2023 7:39:31 PM PDT by conservative98
Donors who gave @RonDeSantis money for his gubernatorial re-election should ask his treasurer for refunds.
This is fraudulent fundraising tactics. DeSantis solicited over $100 MILLION in campaign donations that were left over after his 2022 re-election and now he’s using that money to go after President Trump.
$82.5 million was just transferred from DeSantis’s Gubernatorial committee to his Presidential PAC.
Beyond shady and unethical.
Trump voters who donated to @GovRonDeSantis for 2022 should file a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis for fraudulent fundraising tactics and should immediately ask for a REFUND.
If enough people ask him for refunds, his donor platform will shut him down for fraud. Fundraising platforms only tolerate so many requests for refunds before they drop clients.
Cc: @WINRED
This is financial FRAUD and everyone who supports Trump who was misled into donating to DeSantis under the impression that he intended to serve a full second term as FL Governor and intended to use those funds only for his Gubernatorial election should get their money back and they should sue DeSantis for fraud.
He lied to donors so he could raise money and then use it against Donald Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
🚨Update: Ron DeSantis former state political committee has transferred $82.5 million to his allied super PAC for 2024.
Ron DeSantis Scammed Florida Voters…— RealBenGeller (@RealBenGeller) June 14, 2023
Attack Brandon.
That’s funny because his first ad was a blistering attack on Biden. But hey, what do I know?
Sorry but these transfers are perfectly legal. And I say that as a Trump supporter.
Trump has the nomination in the bag. I wish we could stop freaking out over every little thing.
You’re right. At this point DeSantos is just a gnat. Better to focus on other things.
Donors who gave the Donald $200m for “Stop the Steal” and other candidates should ask for refunds, since they intended to challenge election fraud and fund other candidates. For once, Jack Smith is looking at Trump for something that legitimately looks like it might be illegal. It’s the kind of election fraud Trump seems to specialize in.
Trump laundered tens of millions of dollars from leadership PACs meant to support other candidates, to a PAC for himself. All his fund-raising solicitations, whether “Stop the Steal” or come-ons for other candidates, were really just a gigantic slush fund for his own re-election campaign.
For all of his golden toilets, former President Donald Trump is notoriously stingy—with his personal funds as well as the hundreds of millions of dollars he’s extracted from his supporters over the years. And that’s all the more reason why government watchdogs are raising the alarm about a new campaign finance filing that shows, one month ahead of the midterm elections, an eye-popping $20 million political donation from Trump.
The contribution—Trump’s largest ever by far—went from his Save America leadership PAC on Oct. 3 to a new Trump-aligned super PAC, called Make America Great Again Inc. That same day, an old pro-Trump super PAC threw another $8.9 million behind the new group.
Super PACs can spend unlimited amounts of money to support candidates, so on its face, the donation could be said to be a generous contribution from Trump to the MAGA cause during a critical election. But as a number of campaign finance experts explained, the specifics here suggest Trump is really trying to get around laws that would otherwise prevent him from spending his personal stash on a 2024 presidential run.
Paul S. Ryan, a veteran campaign finance lawyer now serving as deputy executive director at the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation, said that was “the only plausible explanation.”
“The only thing Trump cannot do with the millions and millions of dollars he’s raised into his leadership PAC is support himself. The only plausible explanation for this move is to convert that money to be spent on his own campaign,” Ryan told The Daily Beast.]
The House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack included a 36-page appendix to its final report, which was released in December, that concluded that Trump, allies and advisers aggressively used claims of a stolen election to raise money following the vote, despite internal discomfort with some of the messaging. The committee found that ultimately, virtually none of the money was spent on recounts or legal efforts to challenge the results. Nearly all of the money went to Trump-connected consultants or was poured into the Save America PAC to support Trump’s future political ambitions.
“Not only did President Trump lie to his supporters about the election, but he also ripped them off,” the committee’s seven Democrats and two Republicans concluded.]
[You’re right. At this point DeSantos is just a gnat. Better to focus on other things.]
That’s not the first ad.
This is an interesting comment.
Charlie Crist in his campaign debate with Governor DeSantis attempted to get a pledge from him (DeSantis) that he would serve a full second term. DeSantis refused to make that pledge - effectively signaling to voters that he would possibly consider higher office before the end of his second term, if elected.
President Trump, seeing and knowing this, jumped on DeSantis’ reelection bandwagon; he endorsed DeSantis.
Now some people - supposedly wise in worldly ways and politics and international wheeling and dealing and U.S. bankruptcy proceedings - say they never knew nuttin’ about any of this and they want the joint shut down for gambling. Shocked!
I'm not buying it.
I made you 90% of small donors didn’t intend for their money to be used to go after Trump.
“Sorry but these transfers are perfectly legal. And I say that as a Trump supporter.”
totally agree on all accounts ...
and my opinion that Laura Loomer is a loose cannon nutjob has once again been confirmed ...
Everyone needs to concentrate on Biden and the Democrats instead of each other. This is all getting pretty nasty and it sure sucks and doesn’t help anyone.
You’re trying mightily to spin this.
He was asked about Biden and running in 2024 and would he serve his full four years. Then he froze for several seconds and said: “The only worn-out old donkey I’m looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Christ.”
Everyone did not know he was going to run.
The opposite was true.
Even the Desantis supporters on here ran with this statement at the gubernatorial debate as proof he wasn’t running for President for the LONGEST time and that he was STAYING Governor of Florida and to leave Ron alone.
What he said at the debate was an extremely deceptive piece of nonsense.
DeSantis has known he’s running since the fall of 2022.
They may be legal in a lawless world, Where politician’s write laws for themselves, but that does not make it right. In the real world it is fraud.
I’m sure loomer so so concerned about the feelings of the DeSanchez contributors
Give me a break
Laura Loomer probably supports Trump, because if she didn’t Trump would call her “Laura Looney”. And it’s understood that DeSantis is too much of a gentleman to do that.
Those are interesting comments.
You claim DeSantis spread extremely deceptive nonsense - and that you were completely taken in by the nonsense?
Who finally let you in on the secret?
More details in this thread, and in my previous thread linked with it it.
DeSantis Transfers $83 Million Raised for Governor Race to National Campaign PAC
When I send money to a candidate,or even a friend or relative, where he/she spends it is of no concern to me. I gave it freely, with no coercion. It’s a gift of sorts.
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