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An estimated 1,000 people gathered at the Oregon Capitol on Saturday, advocating for personal choice when it comes to masks and vaccines.

Donald Trump’s fundraising campaign has been accused of duping supporters into making repeated donations as it accumulated a massive war chest in the run-up to the presidential election. The key to the operation was the small print in the fundraising emails sent out by the Trump campaign and WinRed, the company that processed the donations. A box making the donations recurring, rather than a one-off, was ticked in advance – authorising the campaign to continue taking money. It led to a flood of additional donations but also hit supporters with sizeable credit card bills they were not expe...

Trump Campaign Donors Say Campaign Tricked Them Into Repeat Contributions On 4/5/21 at 4:11 PM EDT In the waning days of former President Donald Trump's reelection campaign, many of his donors say they fell victim to an online prechecked box "scam" that coerced them into unwittingly making recurring financial contributions. A 63-year-old cancer patient in hospice care in Kansas is among several Trump supporters who were scammed into recurring withdrawals that decimated their already depleted bank accounts, according to The New York Times. The paper's investigation, published Saturday, used f...

How Trump campaign fooled supporters to raise money SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 04, 2021, 11:19 AM IST Share Synopsis The tactic ensnared scores of unsuspecting Trump loyalists — retirees, military veterans, nurses and even experienced political operatives. Agencies Donald Trump (File Pic) Stacy Blatt was in hospice care last September listening to Rush Limbaugh’s dire warnings about how badly Donald Trump’s campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could: $500. It was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in Kansas City on less than $1,000 p...

How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations Shane Goldmacher © Doug Mills/The New York Times Recurring donations swelled former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign coffers in September and October, just as his operation’s finances were deteriorating. Stacy Blatt was in hospice care last September listening to Rush Limbaugh’s dire warnings about how badly Donald J. Trump’s campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could: $500. It was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in Kansas City on less than $1,000 per m...