After Times Exposé, Trump Justifies Charging Donors Under Fine Print Email Scheme – By Colin Kalmbacher (Law & Crime) / April 5 2021
In a statement delivered through his post-White House political action committee, former President Donald Trump alternately lashed out against — and conceded the premise of — a bombshell investigation showing that his campaign, the Republican party, and their shared accounts overcharged donors more than $122 million last year that they had to refund.
“In yet another highly partisan story, the failing New York Times wrote a completely misleading, one-sided attack piece this weekend that tried to disparage our record-setting grassroots fundraising operation during the 2020 campaign,” Trump said in a statement on Monday.
Extensively quoting campaign finance experts, the Times report scrutinized Federal Election Commission filings for both presidential campaigns and reached out to Trump donors who reported feeling cheated out of expensive donations. The investigation found that the Trump campaign buried the recurring nature of the donations in pre-checked boxes and fine print, inundating banks and credit card companies in fraud complaints.
