Donald Trump's campaign website appears to have a fake donation ticker

Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump may be getting a steady flow of small dollar donations, but the ticker on his campaign website can't confirm that or deny it.

That's because it's not pulling from a live database of donors, but from a static spreadsheet that hasn't been updated in nearly two weeks.

Even though the ticker depicts a campaign that's regularly receiving small financial donations from supporters — in the $5 to $25 range — it's actually just pulling a 10-day-old sample list of names/donations and running it on repeat. And that's a problem, because the ticker makes it look like Trump's campaign is receiving constant donations from small dollar donors.

Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale told Business Insider, "The ticker is not intended to be real time and just represents people, who like millions of others, have donated to the campaign. It shows we are a movement of the people and not that of big Wall Street donors."

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