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RNC Chairwoman @GOPChairwoman reportedly "choked up" (Cause she was caught red handed) as she faced internal party accusations of corruption surrounding the process to choose the party's online donor platform. McDaniel "grew visibly emotional," according to eyewitnesses,

@GOPChairwoman when meeting with senior party officials over the issue.

She grew visibly emotional as she insisted that she isn’t personally profiting off a new, President Donald Trump-endorsed small-donor platform, WinRed.

politico.com/story/2019/07/…

@GOPChairwoman They spent part of the meeting outlining new financial incentives (Umm bribes?) for adopters of the platform and highlighted the platform’s early successes, at one point noting that Trump used WinRed last week to raise money for the Kentucky GOP (Golly!)

That posture has

@GOPChairwoman inflamed tensions with Paul Dietzel, a Republican digital strategist who oversees a rival payment processor called Anedot, which has been widely used by GOP camps/committees in recent years.

The RNC sent Dietzel a cease-and-desist letter about a new donation website he created

@GOPChairwoman earlier this month, and the committee has said it will withdraw funding for any campaign or organization that uses a non-WinRed platform — including Dietzel’s.
(Sounds like blackmail to me! This only happens when someone has something to gain @GOPChairwoman )

One week after

@GOPChairwoman national GOP Party leaders used strong-arm tactics, threats and legal action to try to force all GOP campaigns onto their preferred online fundraising platform, three of the party’s top Senate incumbent campaigns are still using rival companies.

realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/…

@GOPChairwoman The /Give.GOP fundraising portal re-launched as /Right.us this week amid a fierce backlash against Republican leaders’ efforts to consolidate behind WinRed. Many state party officials and campaign operatives are incensed over the effort to give WinRed an online fundraising

@GOPChairwoman monopoly, and they view it as a money and data grab that, counter to conservative philosophy, violates basic free-market principles.

Watch for this, Trump doesn't do anything if there isn't something for him. This is a major red flag, /WinRed

@GOPChairwoman

https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1157391082877005824?s=20

the Republican State Leadership Committee, a Washington-based group devoted to electing state-level officials, shut down the /Give.GOP fundraising platform by booting it from its online domain registry.

Who owns /WinRed?

politico.com/story/2019/07/…

WinRed has posed a serious threat to Anedot, the Republican payment processor that Dietzel launched around a decade ago. WinRed uses a rival vendor: Revv, which was co-founded by former RNC chief digital officer Gerrit Lansing.

Oh looky here, our old pal Gerrit Lansing:

Feb 2017: White House Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing was among the six staffers who were dismissed from the White House last week after being unable to pass an FBI background check

politico.com/blogs/donald-t…

The launch of WinRed was the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes deliberations involving top Republicans from White House senior adviser Jared Kushner to mega-donor Sheldon Adelson.

This is most definitely a mob situation. This is owned by Trump and friends. Hello FEC!?

Jan 2019:

No longer called Patriot Pass

Trump’s political team and top Republican officials have reached a landmark agreement to reshape the party’s fundraising apparatus and close the financial gap that devastated them in the midterms.

politico.com/story/2019/01/…

@SaysDana found more

While ActBlue charges a flat 3.95% fee on every donation, WinRed charges 3.8% plus 30 cents per donation. While that extra 30 cents means little with larger donations it becomes increasingly significant as the donation becomes smaller.

With a $25 donation, the effective

% rate for the processing fee becomes 5%. With a $5 donation the processing fee becomes 9.8%

Those few pennies, multiplied by hundreds of millions of donations, would translate into many millions of dollars extra for /Revv.com and Lansing, its owner.

What’s more, about 2/3 of

the total processing fee is used to pay Stripe, the credit-card processing company that saw a $30 million investment from JOSHUA KUSHNER

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d…