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LMAO and the grift continues...

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 160 points 9 months ago

Donate to the GoFundMe of the guy who leaked Trump’s tax returns instead https://www.gofundme.com/f/charles-littlejohns-legal-defense-fund

He got 5 years in prison so we could all see Trump’s grift.

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 55 points 9 months ago

Insane that he got the absolute max sentence for the "crime" he committed. It's such a gross signal. Had he taken hundreds of random Joe's tax returns and leaked to the press absolutely nothing would have happened and if he even got caught, like by turning himself in, he would've gotten a mild sentence. But now it was wealthy and powerful folk and thus he gets hammered as hard as the law allows.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 42 points 9 months ago

Compare that to the paltry wrist slaps the capitol insurrectionists got.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

This is a message to our ENEMIES around the World that there's SERIOUS HARSH PUNISHMENTS if they leak a Rich Person's Tax Returns! So they better stick to JUST Violent Insurrection and attempted Assassination of Government Officials INSTEAD!

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 135 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

From GoFundMe terms, prohibited uses;

  1. the legal defense of alleged financial and violent crimes;

So I reported it. I'm very interested if they're going to let this slide because that kind of makes their terms of service open for legal challenge if they decide to block someone else for a similar thing, i.e. paying of fines for financial fraud.

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 42 points 9 months ago

"alleged ... crimes"

.... Court decided he was guilty. There is no alleged about it lol

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

They're going to tell you to go fund yourself.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

They'll probably make an exception because those crimes are not alleged anymore. If they don't... this, but with Trump supporters.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Please keep us informed!

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago
[-] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Technically it's not paying for his defense :)

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[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 92 points 9 months ago

It's already been canceled. You can't use GFM to pay off civil or criminal fines.

[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 51 points 9 months ago

It's still up on the site, I'm not going to link it because that seems like a bad idea. There were donations as of a few minutes ago.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 32 points 9 months ago

You're right, my wife told me it was a ToS violation & I thought she read it online.

[-] Teon@kbin.social 71 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Trump is not a billionaire, never was. No one that rich needs everyone to pay his bills.
He is just a welfare brat scamming people. Everything he owns is mortgaged to the hilt.
MAGA exists to financially support #TraitorTrump.

[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 26 points 9 months ago

Alternatively, he might be a billionaire now with the insanely inflated land bubble valuations.

And cheating people out of their money is absolutely on brand for billionaires.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I was going to say... people that rich never pay their bills.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  • J. Paul Getty
[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago

ETA to "It was all a scam, the money was stolen by 3rd parties..."

See: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/07/1121447226/steve-bannon-fraud-charges

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago
[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Honestly I have nothing but respect for people who manage to fleece Trump supporters with shit like this. Didn't somebody rake and millions of dollars that was supposed to go to the wall?

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It's probably the most important thing we can strive for, is to make it cost, ideally severely, to support Trump.

I hope nothing more than that this grifter asks his supporters to open their pocket books to pay his debts.

It costs money to go to Washington to overthrow the government. It costs time away from work and gas to be a part of a bunch of tool bags in a caravan to stop an imagined threat at the boarder. The more we can cost these people the less effective they can be.

I'd guess that the rules of user engagement follow for Trump's base as they do for almost all other social systems. So maybe only 1/1000th of his the people that voted for him are 'true believer's. If we can get those individuals financially destitute, we might be able to stop the movement.

[-] JPAKx4 41 points 9 months ago
[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 24 points 9 months ago

Shrödinger’s billionaire.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

The top donation is $5k, but I'm tempted to think that was someone associated with him making a huge donation to make MAGA followers think that people are giving that much. I just can't imagine a middle-class person doing that.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Or money laundering

[-] cathyk@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Seeding the tip jar.

[-] Hello_there@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago

So, someone please take this idea and do it. Make one of these campaigns, but be very careful to make it neutral language. E.g., pay legal fees related to the case of state of NY against trump enterprises LLC or etc. And for the reason that it was an unfair that all these funds had to be expended on this outrageous lawsuit.
All sounds legit, right?
Except the sponsor writes a check to state of NY general fund.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

I honestly thought about this. "Help trump get the justice he deserves"

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

But send the money to Ukraine. They are the immediate victims of the pootin/drumft collaboration.

[-] ScottThePoolBoy@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Isn't it funny how crowd funding is like socialism but him and his people think it's evil and bad...

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

The fucking idiots just line up

[-] LocoOhNo@lemmus.org 17 points 9 months ago

"I'm gonna continue to commit crimes, and America is gonna pay for it!"

  • Donald J. Trump
[-] workerONE@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

They raised $200,000 already?

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

People are seriously stupid

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[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 12 points 9 months ago

I should do a gofundme to “help Trump supporter get the legal defense spending Trump deserves.” You guys are cool with me buying a castle with the money, right?

[-] Senseless@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago

Only if you invite me to a feast on the castle.

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[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Yet another example of how a fool and their money are easily parted.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

The gofundme description stars like this:

My name is Elena Cardone and I am a wife of Grant Cardone, mother and an ardent supporter of American values and an advocate for justice, I stand unwaveringly with President Donald Trump in the face of what I see as unprecedented and unfair treatment by certain judicial elements in New York.

[-] dave@feddit.uk 16 points 9 months ago

“a wife of Grant Cardone”

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

It's a life achievement! That said, I thought he was gay. I guess they're just sucking up to trump now

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Sister wife?

[-] MGN22@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

No matter who you vote for, your life isn't going to improve unless YOU do something about it. People have been fighting about politics since politics began. You're not special. Put that energy into something useful.

[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

SuperPAC money is unregulated enough to pay court-ordered fines. Drain all the accounts.

Then drain the RNC to pay the 8-figure legal fees.

[-] Seraph@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

Just realized how to destroy GoFundMe - have the platform allow negative donations.

You want them to be $100 further from their goal? Fucking sure pass the cash.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

To clarify... would you, a user, donate 100 dollars to the platform to push the campaign further from the goal? Or would you as the user graciously offer to be paid 100$ to move Trump further from their goal?

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago
[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

He's a successful Billionaire Businessman!

[-] TengoHipo@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

America is a shit show.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The wife of an investor has launched a GoFundMe to help fund former President Trump’s mounting legal expenses in the wake of Friday’s verdict in the New York fraud case.

The GoFundMe has a goal of $355 million — the amount that Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay nearly in penalties in a civil fraud case.

With interest, Trump and his business could pay more than $450 million, according to the New York attorney general’s office.

“I stand unwaveringly with President Donald Trump in the face of what I see as unprecedented and unfair treatment by certain judicial elements in New York,” Elena Cardone wrote on the GoFundMe page.

Trump was previously ordered to pay Carroll $5 million last year.

Trump’s attorneys slammed the Friday verdict, calling it a “politically fueled witch hunt,” and said the former president will appeal the ruling.


The original article contains 232 words, the summary contains 141 words. Saved 39%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

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[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Gotta give it to the hill for not linking to the actual page

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