Original title: US media: Trump campaign committee inducing fundraising is complained of accumulative refunds of US$135 million
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Overseas Network, August 9th. According to CNN on the 7th, citing the New York Times report, former U.S. President Trump and some Republican members used inducing fundraising strategies in the 2020 election. Donors are not aware of it. Under the circumstances, the actual donation amount exceeds the donor’s expectations. After the problem was discovered, a large number of credit card fraud complaints were triggered, and donors demanded refunds. In the first half of this year, the campaign committee of former US President Trump, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts have refunded 12.8 million U.S. dollars, with a total of 135 million U.S. dollars refunded since 2020.
The New York Times found in an investigation that Trump’s Political Action Committee automatically collects donations from online donors every week, and users who want to opt out of this service must manually cancel the weekly donation option, and also pay attention to withdrawing other donations. A higher donation. The text of the disclaimer is very vague and the font is not easy to read.
According to the report, of the $12.8 million refunds, 2.2 million came from the Trump Campaign Committee, 2.5 million came from the Republican National Committee, and 8.1 million came from the shared accounts of the two. From 2020 to the first half of 2021, the relevant accounts of the Trump Campaign Committee have refunded a total of 135 million U.S. dollars, and the refunds accounted for more than 10% of the total donations.
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