A bizarre fundraising email for President Donald Trump threatened to sic ICE on MAGA donors who do not respond to a survey confirming they are American citizens. The latest appeal for money from the Never Surrender, Inc PAC was sent this week with the subject line “Are you an illegal alien?” It has been slammed as outlandish, even by political fundraising email standards.

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  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    Its literally him extorting money paid to him as a private citizen using his role as president to threaten people.

    That’s criminally unserious.

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        3 hours ago

        What I’ve meant is going for donation email scam is laughable while being the pres and having no legal boundaries on real, massive corruption schemes. It is not uncaracteristic of him and his people, but it’s the billionaire’s version of ordering a fake coin trinket to never return the shop cart. I want to see it as a measurement to what these guys are, with their frame of thinking still being that small these petty little frauds are their character limit.

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          For sure. There is no scam that is too small to be worth his time. Look at all the dumb fake merch he sells like the watches and phones and shit. These are scams worth a couple hundred bucks. But a bottom feeder like Trump doesn’t care.