Trump Hinders Biden’s Transition, Utilizes ‘GoFundMe’ To Settle Election Expenses – #TrumpvsBiden—–In an attempt to frustrate Biden’s presidential transition, President Trump has blocked government officials from cooperating with him.
President Trump has also not invited the President-elect to the White House as is the tradition (The meeting between sitting presidents and Vice Presidents and their successors is a time-honored tradition that represents the peaceful transfer of power).
According to CNN’s White House, Trump has no intent to invite Biden to the White House in the coming days.
The implication of this is that Biden can’t access additional funds for his transition team, and he hasn’t been cleared to receive intelligence briefings, both touchstones of the formal transition process.
Meanwhile, Trump has set up a GoFundMe account tagged ‘election defense fund’ to solicit money for settling his election expenses.
According to credible sources, Trump spent a little more money than he had for his re-election to the tune of $1.6 billion which he now needs help in repaying.
It said those donating may believe that the money would go towards challenging the election result but the newspapers found that part of the donations would be used in settling election expenses.
Donations can be made to two different funds – Trump’s personal fund, and his joint fund with his party.
“President Trump needs YOU to step up to make sure we have the resources to protect the integrity of the election!” the wording on both funds says, which is featured in a huge pop-up on Trump’s re-election webpage.
It continues: “Please contribute ANY AMOUNT IMMEDIATELY to the Official Election Defense Fund and to increase your impact by 1,000%!”
It is unclear who matches the donations.
On Trump’s personal fund, it dictates that of all donations raised, only 50 percent will go towards a recount effort, and that “50% of each contribution, up to a maximum of $2,800 ($5,000), [will] be designated toward DJTFP’s 2020 general election account for general election debt retirement until such debt is retired”.
On his joint fund with the RNC, the donations work as follows: “60% of each contribution first to Save America, up to $5,000/$5,000, then to DJTP’s recount account, up to a maximum of $2,800/$5,000. [And] 40% of each contribution to the RNC’s Operating account, up to a maximum of $35,500/$15,000.
