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Tennessee Hillbilly

(589 posts)
Fri Aug 21, 2020, 05:14 PM Aug 2020

How many trump supporters were victims of bannon's scam?

I haven't had time to follow this story closely, but assume that a large majority of the victims are ardent trump supporters.

Has anyone seen an estimate of how many people made contributions?

Also, are there any estimates of the average size of the contributions?

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lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
4. I've been hearing hundreds of thousands. And many of them are GUN NUTS of course.
Fri Aug 21, 2020, 05:28 PM
Aug 2020

Not good news for Mr. Bannon.

Zambero

(8,977 posts)
5. The more the merrier!
Fri Aug 21, 2020, 05:31 PM
Aug 2020

Fools and their money are soon parted. Racist fools who are fleeced are more than deserving of their predicament. As for Bannon, he is despised by many to now include racists and xenophobia.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
7. Not a peep from Trump about defrauding his beloved supporters
Fri Aug 21, 2020, 05:34 PM
Aug 2020

But he's calling for a boycott on Goodyear, an AMERICAN company that employs what? 600K employees, because they can't wear political apparel (for Democrats either, mind you).

panader0

(25,816 posts)
8. Well, if they all gave $100, that's 250,000 saps.
Fri Aug 21, 2020, 05:42 PM
Aug 2020

Of course, that size of donation would cut into their beer money, so say $50 bucks. That's a
half a million saps. Then again, they may have averaged only $10 bucks a pop, and that's 2,500,000
saps.
Lots of saps at any rate.

11. Well I couldn't find anything specific on the web, but ...
Fri Aug 21, 2020, 07:15 PM
Aug 2020

Well I couldn't find anything specific on the web, but a few minutes ago on NBC nightly news, they said there were "hundreds of thousands" of victims. There was also a very brief interview with a wealthy Texan who said that he and some of his friends were each asked to contribute $1000 for one "share" and did so.

russiamommy

(244 posts)
12. They don't care
Fri Aug 21, 2020, 07:22 PM
Aug 2020

All of the contributors are obviously Trumpettes. But most of them simply don’t care. It’s just another case of the “Deep State” coming after them. They don’t believe they were taken for a ride. Same way with the NRA. They’re being scammed and robbed, but they simply don’t believe it.

This is what we’re up against folks. Sadly.

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
16. How many tRUMP supporters are running their own scams on the internet and with fake charities?
Fri Aug 21, 2020, 07:55 PM
Aug 2020

I'm going to guess a lot of them.

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