You may recall that at one point the GOP was sued by Donald Trump for using his name to raise money. They settled that complaint (because Trump had no leag right to do it) and so they are really going for it.
I’m sure you recall the story about the massive con job perpetrated on unsuspecting Trump supporters during the campaign in which they were misled into giving weekly donations and contributing to “money bombs.” I wrote about it in depth, here.
The NRCC — the GOP’s congressional campaign arm — is taking it to an even more malevolent level. Tim Miller at The Bulwark reports on this latest pitch:
Ominous. But literally every single word in the text is untrue. (Except “Timothy.”)
Let’s break it down:
For starters, Donald Trump has not started a new social media site yet, he’s just talked about it. And if we learned anything from Infrastructure Week, the Trump healthcare plan, The Great, Beautiful Wall That Mexico Paid For, and his sacred landslide re-election victory, it’s that vaporware is Trump’s primary product.
But even if Trump Social does come into existence, the NRCC—which is a Republican party committee not affiliated with Donald Trump—would have no operating control or ability to sign people up for this private enterprise.
Which creates an ontological conundrum: Can an offer that doesn’t exist expire in 10 minutes? And finally: I promise you that the NRCC will in fact ask for my money again with another limited-time offer.
So the NRCC is offering early access to a product that you have to presume there will be a lot of demand for and just pocketing the cash for themselves while the user, who you have to assume was excited about Trump Twitter—not supporting some random House Republican’s re-election campaign—gets nothing but the bill.
Once you click on the link in this text spam, you’re taken to a landing page where you’re asked to make a contribution in order to be “the first to join” this nonexistent social media site—over which the NRCC has no control.
Then this:
I know we must feel some sympathy for the people who get suckered by this but it’s getting hard. This is so monumentally stupid and obvious that you have to wonder if they know it’s ridiculous and they just don’t care.