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April 8, 2021

Trump Campaign Refunds Donations After Misleading Supporters into Recurring Payments
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President Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee issued
more than half a million refunds to online donors worth over $64 million
in the final months of the 2020 campaign, after charging recurring
payments to people who had made one-time donations. The New York Times
reports one 63-year-old Trump supporter battling cancer had $500
deducted from his bank account every week until his bank account had
been depleted and frozen, after he failed to opt out of a fine-print
disclaimer. Donors who tried to cancel recurring payments encountered a
message reading, "We need to know we haven't lost you to the radical
left. If you UNCHECK this box, we'll have to tell Trump you're a
DEFECTOR & sided with the Dems."


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