Got this request from drumpf, is this illegal?

[Demonaut]

"Dick,

We’ve accomplished so much during our first week in office -- and it’s only getting started.

You’re soon going to remember what it feels like when America WINS!

But we need to make sure we sustain everything we build over these next four years so that we can Keep America Great for years and years to come.

Our Party is taking care of that. We’re setting goals each month to ensure we have the resources for the BEST messaging, the BEST data, and the BEST ground game.

But right now, we still have $735,148 to go to hit our January goal set by our terrific new chairwoman.

Please contribute $100, $65, $50, $35, $20, or $5 to help us CRUSH this goal by the end-of-month FEC deadline.

I know you sacrificed a lot during the election. I can’t begin to thank you enough.

But winning the election was only step one. We now have to fix this terrible mess, and we have to ensure we never go back down that road of the last eight years.

I’m asking you to go above and beyond and help our new chairwoman hit her first goal by the end of the month.

Please contribute $100, $65, $50, $35, $20, or $5 to help us CRUSH this goal by the end-of-month FEC deadline.

Thank you,

Donald J. Trump"

The full content of the email except active links, the orange ass is begging for money!

[politicat]

1. It's real -- Il Douche filed his 2020 FEC paperwork on Inauguration Day.

That is NOT NORMAL. Most incumbents file about a year out from election.

It's clearly part grift -- there's gold in them thar rubes -- but it's also a way to silence not-for-profits.

Part of the tax-free benefit of being a NFP is that one cannot campaign for or against specific candidates. One can campaign for or against policies only. (Yes, I know this is observed in the breech far more than in observance. That's a separate issue.) By filing for 2020 so early, that creates a club that can be used to threaten the 501(c)3 status of NFPs like PP, ACLU and Sierra if they say anything about Trumplethinskin that the Gold Glioma dislikes. There's a good chance the NFPs will win on appeal to the IRS -- because the FEC filing is 3 years early and violates norms -- but it makes the NFP spend lawyer money and time on bullshit.

[pansypoo53219]

2. money grubbing con man.

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

3. If I got that email I'd put a dog turd in a baggie

And mail it to him with the note:

Just sending you what you are worth!