Trump Campaign Responsible for 3% of All Credit Card Fraud in 2020: report

Inside the Trump scheme to defraud his donors.

Buried deep in the fine print, boxes that must be manually unchecked.

The New York Times released a bombshell report detailing how the struggling Trump campaign deceived its donors, resulting in unprecedented amount of refunds and fraud complaints.

The Trump campaign quietly set the default donation option to recurring, forcing donors to “wade through a fine-print disclaimer and manually uncheck a box to opt out.”

According to the report,

As the election neared, the Trump team made that disclaimer increasingly opaque, an investigation by The New York Times showed. It introduced a second prechecked box, known internally as a “money bomb,” that doubled a person’s contribution. Eventually its solicitations featured lines of text in bold and capital letters that overwhelmed the opt-out language.

Let’s compare the two campaigns over the same amount of time.

We can start with the number of refunds issued by campaign. The Trump campaign issued over fourteen times as many refunds as the Biden campaign.