Trump’s campaign has sent millions of fundraising emails to supporters, encouraging them to make donations to help combat voter fraud from election day until Jan. 6, the commission said. Many of these emails asked supporters to donate to an “election defense fund” for election-related legal cases. However, a commission investigator said the fund did not exist and most of the money went to Trump’s Save America political action committee, not to election-related litigation. “Evidence underscores how Trump’s campaign fueled election fraudulent fundraising claims by telling supporters they would be used to combat voter fraud that did not exist,” said Amanda Wick, a senior parliamentary research adviser. “Trump’s campaign knew these allegations of voter fraud were false, but they continued to block small dollar sponsors with emails encouraging them to donate to something called the Official Election Protection Fund.” “The selection committee found out that there was no such fund,” he added. House of Representatives member Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, said President Trump “used the lies he told to raise millions of dollars from the American people.” Congresswoman Lofgren added that the commission’s inquiry found evidence that “Trump’s campaign and its successors have misled donors into where their funds will go and what they will be used for.” So, not only was there a Big Lie, there was a Big Rip Off. “ The commission presented a video testimony from a former Trump digital campaign director, Gary Cobby, who agreed that the use of the phrase “election defense fund” was a “marketing tactic.” Ms Vick, the commission’s investigator, said allegations that the election had been stolen were so successful that President Trump and his allies raised $ 250 million, nearly $ 100 million of which came in the first week after the election. Most of that money went to Mr. Trump. The Save America PAC, which was set up on Nov. 9, is not about election-related litigation, Ms Vick said. He added that Mr. Trump’s PAC then made millions of dollars in donations to political allies, including $ 1 million to a charity set up by Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and $ 5 million to the company that held the rally. on January 6 in front of the Whites. Home. “The fundraising emails continued until January 6, even when President Trump spoke to Ellipse,” he said. “Thirty minutes after the last fundraising email was sent, the Capitol was breached.”
