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12 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
As President Donald Trump seeks to discredit #Election2020 with baseless claims of voter fraud, his team has bombarded his supporters with requests for money to help pay for legal challenges to the results reut.rs/3plk2pF 1/5
But any small-dollar donations from Trump’s grassroots donors won’t be going to legal expenses at all, according to @Reuters review of the legal language in the solicitations 2/5
The emailed solicitations send supporters to an 'Official Election Defense Fund' website that asks them to sign up for recurring donations to 'protect the results and keep fighting'. The fine print makes clear most of the money will go to other priorities 3/5
A large portion of the money goes to 'Save America,' a Trump leadership PAC set up on Monday, and the Republican National Committee. Under Federal Election Commission rules, both groups have broad leeway in how they can use the funds 4/5
Read more about how the disclosures would allow Trump and the RNC to channel the donations into other political causes or campaigns reut.rs/3plk2pF by @JarrettRenshaw and @JTanfani 5/5

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