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New Website Doxxes Trump Campaign Contributors
Allow me to introduce you to a cute little website: Donald Trump Watch.
It’s a website designed to name, shame, intimidate, and target those who have made reportable contributions to the official Trump-Pence campaign account.
I’m on that website.
As a federal campaign election veteran, I knew full well when I made my two contributions that they would be publicly disclosed. I knew the risk that I was taking in doing so. I was also smart enough to list a Post Office Box as my address.
There are no known such sites designed to name, shame, and target Biden supporters, nor should there be. But please disclose it to me if you find one. I am not interested in targeting Biden supporters. This is a free country (for now, at least), and the Supreme Court has long determined that political contributions are speech protected by the First Amendment.
It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to realize the intent. We have seen reports from Kansas City and New Hampshire of warning letters being left on homes of people who have been identified as Trump supporters and warned to make sure their home insurance policies protect them against fire damage.
Don’t believe me? Here’s a story from National Review: Worth your time. And my friend Matt Schlapp has posted threatening fliers (see photo) distributed in a Kansas City neighborhood to those ‘identified’ as Trump supporters. You don’t have to be a contributor to be a target of threatened violence. You just need a yard sign. And people wonder why so many are “silent Trump supporters.”
And people whine about “right-wing” groups threatening violence. Maybe, but the preponderance of evidence seems to point elsewhere.
I’m OK with this. I’m active in politics. I know what it’s like to be a target of doxxing and related threats. I’m at peace, trained, and prepared.
It is not the first time this sleazy tactic has been employed. Democratic US Rep. Joaquin Castro doxxed Trump contributors from his home city of San Antonio in 2019. It has become a common tactic of The Left.
This is evil. And sadly, this is where we are in America right now. Do not be intimidated. Be “wise as serpents,” because that’s what we’re up against.
None. Actually a penny so that they would have to process it.
In the Republican Primary, I gave the $2,800 max to Bill Weld, and $1,000 to Mark Sanford before he dropped out.
That is unscrupulous and [redact]chy. You are a very petty person.
No, I acted tactically. This is not unlike Rush’s Operation Chaos in 2008, where he urged Republicans to change their party registration, if necessary, to vote for Hillary to prolong the Democratic nomination.
None of that means you aren’t petty.
Gary,
Yes, you would, but I do not recommend it.
I think most people would agree that you have a very distinct writing style. You have certain signature phrases and references, and are well-known on the site. If Gary vanishes and Someone appears with the same writing style, it will be about as effective as a toy mustache and glasses. I don’t think I have ever heard another person use the phrase Reagan Republican besides you.
If someone compares writing style and says you sound a lot like Gary Robbins, that’s not doxxing since it is based on public info. Everyone recognizes Pseudodionysus when he shows up, despite using a different wacky name. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and flies like a duck, it just might be a duck.
Do you know what is startling? When you start to search areas that you may think are very blue, (SF, Berkeley, Seattle, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles), it is surprising to me just how many donors there are. Yellow dots are single donations, red are multiples.
What surprises me is that I am very Trumpy and highly motivated, but I haven’t donated…so that means donors are even more Trumpy than I am. And there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them. All over Northern California, all over San Jose and Santa Clara and San Francisco and Marin County and Santa Rosa and Napa…there are sure a lot of donors out there. I believe there are a lot more of us than “them”.
Let’s hope that turns out to be the case on Nov 3. And however long it takes after that, until the Dim stop trying to cheat.
We need more dark money sources for GOP funds.
I was just writing about this in a FB post, and noticed that the DonaldTrumpWatch website has changed..it is now called DonorWatch, and provides info on donors to both parties. Presumably, they are trying to make it look more nonpartisan and less intimidation-focused.
The original domain name still resolves to it.
Reminds me of the Attack Watch website that popped up early in the Obama administration, where you could report “unfair” attacks on him or his minions.
Safe thing to do since we aren’t prone to violence.