Former President Donald Trump has been forced to pay back his supporters after they were reportedly duped into making recurring payments for his 2020 campaign.
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Trump’s fundraising campaign allegedly tricked his supporters into signing up for a subscription-based plan instead of making a one-time payment. The emails from the campaign included pre-checked off boxes where it didn’t acknowledge the recurring payments unless the donator read the terms and conditions. After discovering the recurring payments on their bank and credit card statements, thousands of donors filed complaints, forcing Trump’s team to return the funds.
According to the New York Times, the elderly and military veterans were primarily affected by the ‘scam’, and screenshots of the pre-checked emails were dated from March 2020.
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Jason Miller said in a statement that one percent of the donations that were contributed to campaign company WinRed have been subjected to complaints as reported by The Daily Mail.
‘Our campaign was built by the hardworking men and women of America and cherishing their investments was paramount to anything else we did,’