An online fundraiser for former President Donald Trump has racked up $84,354 out of a $355 million target in just 24 hours following the final judgement in his civil fraud trial in New York.

On Friday, Trump was fined roughly $355 million by New York Judge Arthur Engoron following a monthslong trial. The trial was to determine how much Trump and his associates would pay after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit in September 2022 accusing the former president, his two adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, The Trump Organization and two firm executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney of fraudulently overvaluing assets to secure more favorable bank loans and taxation deals.

The former president was also barred from doing business in New York for three years. Other defendants in the case also faced financial penalties and were banned from doing business in New York for periods of time. Meanwhile, Trump, who is the GOP frontrunner in the 2024 presidential election, has denied any wrongdoing and claims the case was politically motivated.

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[–] 221 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Any Trump supporters out there, I want you to think about something.

One of the reasons you originally supported Trump is that he was supposedly rich enough to fund his own campaign. Then you sent him - supposedly a man worth $10 billion at one point - piles of money. He begged you for it over and over. He needed your help to fight the system, to "stop the steal," to "make America great again," and you gladly opened your wallets without ever wondering why a billionaire needed your money and couldn't fund his campaigns on his own.

That billionaire now has a GoFundMe. Roll that around in your head. He has a GoFundMe because he can't (or won't) spend his own earned income as a billionaire real-estate tycoon to settle judgments against him that - by his own claims - amount to roughly 1/20th his net worth.

Why? Try to explain why in a way that doesn't make you sound like the world's biggest sucker and the victim of a con artist.

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  • [–] 127 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Any Trump supporters out there

    Literally zero of them browse here. Your message is simply echoing in here. You should post it to Truth Social or Hexbear or whatever shithole they peruse and let us know here what their replies are.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Based on my experience... Nextdoor

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    Too relatable.

    I made an account to browse neighborhood news. If someone loses a cat or dog, I do want to be on the lookout. Haven't added a single friend there. I'm just there to observe and potentially help save a pet. But it's very "boomer" there, and in my experience (having lived here my whole life) every boomer is a Trump fan until proven otherwise. Every boomer goes to church every Sunday. They're all the literal stereotype, and almost half are the same person as the ones you see interviewed at rallies by liberal-leaning journalists.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    All conning and bs aside, wealthy mantra is "why use your money, when you can use someone else's?" Even if trump actually did have $10,000,000,000 in assets....Hell; even in cash, he'd still try and get other saps to pay for shit for his benefit. The guy is a d-bag.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Beyond that, the entire GoFundMe is against the terms and services of the EULA on GoFundMe. You aren't allowed to raise money for "alleged or actual crimes," since this is a legal judgement, it's not just an alleged crime. It fits the definition of an actual crime.

    The golden Trump shoes are actually legal money laundering.

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    [–] 85 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    If my math is correct, at that rate, he only has a little less than 11 years to go to raise the target amount!

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Nah, I read in another thread that interest on it was beyond that, but at about 5%, that's nearly 50k/day.

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  • [–] 74 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The GoFundMe is run by a random follower of his. Remember that guy who was raising money to pay for the wall and then just took the money and disappeared?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That was Steve Bannon, and he received a presidential pardon for it.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    It was Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage. Bannon was pardoned but Kolfage is sitting in FMC Rochester until 2027.

    But this GoFundMe is by the wife of "financial influencer" Grant Cardone, who has been sued by investors for fraud multiple times. Also a Scientologist, so that tracks.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago

    84K that isn't going to go into a superPAC, to another candidate, to the RNC, or get spent to campaign for trump.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago

    Imagine being so stupid and depraved as to give money to help bail out a supposed billionaire (and rapist).

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago

    Oh man, they raised 0.024% of the judgement in 24 hours! ((84,000/350,000,000)*100 to yield percent)

    If they manage to do that once a day every year, it'll only take them (350,000,000/84,000/365) 11 years to pay if off!

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I wish I was unethical enough to grift the shit out of those rubes.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh before he needed $355 million, now he only needs $355 million. That $84K is an unnoticeable drop in the bucket. 😂 😂 😂

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    See, Russian money is currently tight because of the war. Bad timing orange old man.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Donny holding up a bucket waiting for the billionaires and millionaires who benefitted from his tax reform to trickle down in his direction:

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    Perhaps the MAGA base is finally running out of money for their champion to piss away. Though if they had any more, I'm sure Trump would be willing to spend to his very last supporter.

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  • [+] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Plenty of dudes have already beaten you to the punch. They blast people with texts that all go to fake donor sites like winred.com that then beg you to make $3,300 donations.

    Hell, winred.com is just as much the same scam.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIOrTvPdFwQ

    Winred still operates.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Reminds me of when the PS3 first went on sale and people sold pictures of a PS3 on eBay. The title said it was a picture, the content said it was a picture, but people were impatient, didn't read and bought the auctions. I thought that was a bit manipulative then, but I would not feel bad if people did this to Trump supporters. IANAL but I don't think it's illegal as long as you don't say you'll do something and then not do it.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    At this rate it’ll only take about 11 1/2 years to raise the full 355m.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Assuming every day the same donations pour in, it'll take about 4,227 days:

    355,000,000/84,000 = 4,226.19047619

    That many days divided by 365 means about 11.5 years to reach that goal.

    4,226.19047619/365 = 11.5786040444

    77 + 11 =88, so he'll probably be 89 before he's out of debt, assuming no other financial penalties from lawsuits happen. Or he could declare bankruptcy...

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  • [+] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Still 84K too much

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    I can't wait until he launches his competitor to Star Citizen.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    So if you divide it out, that’s 0.0023% of the fine.

    Today’s goal is $600,000,000, we just need to sell enough magazine subscriptions and all of our food stamps. This is totally achievable! Now let’s get out there and support the TRUE 51TH PRESIDENT!

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    When you're funding your successful billionaire businessman president to pay his court fees on the same platform used to pay for people's medical bills do you ever think maybe capitalism might have failed us?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The goal, ha!

    $45/avg grift (least this time the fund’s purpose isn’t buried in the fine print)

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Holy fuck the alleged billionaire needs a Go fund me. Pull your finger out of your ass bud, you're spare parts.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    I hope someone is carefully monitoring these donations to determine origin....

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