According to a report from Politico, supporters of former President Donald Trump are being flooded with robocalls from at least one political action committee (PAC) asking for donations to advance his political comeback with none of the money going to the one-termer who has a PAC of his own.
The report notes that one such PAC, Campaign to Support Republican Leaders, is promising that a $100 donation will help to pay to get Trump back on Twitter.
There is one problem with Campaign to Support Republican Leaders: they are not registered with the government and not one dollar will go to Trump.
"A donation of $100, for example, would help return Trump to Twitter. Or, for a similar amount, a potential donor can 'stop Kamala Harris and socialism,' the calls claim. Other calls ask for money to ensure that congressional Democrats don't dismantle the wall Trump started building along the U.S.-Mexico border," Politico's Theodoric Meyer wrote. "One of the telemarketers behind the calls, who spoke to a POLITICO reporter on Wednesday, promised that '100 percent of the contributions go directly to President Trump.'"
According to an official Kelly Sadler, a spokesperson for the Trump-endorsed America First super PAC, this is not the first time they have had problems with scammers.
"There's nothing we can do to stop them. This is a problem for the campaign, as well as us, as well as for the RNC," Sadler explained.
As for the most recent scam, Politico's Meyer wrote, "One telemarketer said he was calling from the 33rd floor of a Dallas office building — a building which is home to a WeWork office that's been linked to a man named Matthew Tunstall," adding, "Tunstall is the treasurer of the Support American Leaders PAC, which lists its address as the same Dallas WeWork office on Federal Election Commission forms. Another telemarketer on the recent robocalls identified the group behind it as the Campaign to Support the President. That group, too, lists Tunstall as its treasurer on FEC forms."
The report goes on to note that the Support American Leaders PAC successfully pulled in "$2.5 million during the 2020 cycle. Less than $375,000 was spent on ads and voter contact supporting Trump," adding, "none of it went to Trump's campaign."
The report noted that Tunstall did return a call requesting a comment.
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