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Allies of Donald Trump have begun holding events in black communities where organizers lavish praise on the president as they hand out tens of thousands of dollars to lucky attendees.
The first giveaway took place last month in Cleveland, where recipients whose winning tickets were drawn from a bin landed cash gifts in increments of several hundred dollars, stuffed into envelopes. A second giveaway scheduled for this month in Virginia has been postponed, and more are said to be in the works.
The tour comes as Trumps campaign has been investing its own money to make inroads with black voters and erode Democrats overwhelming advantage with them. But the cash giveaways are organized under the auspices of an outside charity, the Urban Revitalization Coalition, permitting donors to remain anonymous and make tax-deductible contributions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/29/trump-black-voters-cash-giveaways-108072
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)Edit: I mean the story not the handing out of cash.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I don't say we need to do what they are doing but they are going to do WHATEVER they want after his royal fat butt is acquitted. We are spending all of our money fighting each other in the primary.
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(13,118 posts)sdfernando
(4,935 posts)I would take the cash....then dole it out to democratic candidates....and I would surely vote a straight democratic ticket.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)"take the money, take the votes elsewhere".
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)who supplies the money to give away? And, how is it a charitable donation?
The coalition planned a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at Virginia Union University, a historically black school in Richmond. Advertisements for the event said it would feature a $30,000 cash giveaway and would honor Trump as well as his son-in-law, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner.
But school administrators canceled the Jan. 20 event, saying it had been described to them as an economic development discussion when it was first booked. In a letter to Lanier, university President Hakim Lucas said: The event advertised is vastly different from the event VUU agreed to co-host.