Now for the latest misinformation from the woke lefties, hosts on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday claimed that DeSantis has installed an automatic monthly donation program on his website.
They said that the Florida Governor’s fundraising was due in part to his scamming donors.
Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House Director of Strategic Communications but is now a CNN contributor, followed up a discussion about DeSantis’ fundraising prowess by suggesting.
“What a lot of these apps and websites do is you click to give once and it actually signs you up to recurringly give. It is so unfair; it is a grift, it is terrible; it is horrible,” Griffin said Tuesday.
Faux GOPer Alyssa Farah Griffin accuses FL Gov. Ron DeSantis of scamming his supporters of donations. “It is so unfair. It is a gift. It is terrible,” she says.
“Who are these people giving money to these people?” Sunny Hostin exclaims, suggesting “people are losing their homes.” pic.twitter.com/9hHv0gfPsc— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 15, 2022
However, DeSantis is no punching bag and fired back to their accusations, calling it completely untrue.
“I got accused by some of these people on one of these shows about, oh you know, he’s raising all of this … and they tried to say that we had auto-donate, where it keeps going every month. We do not do that,” DeSantis said.
“We do not do that auto because we don’t want people to have these charges if that’s not something they didn’t agree with,”DeSantis also noted “So they tried to act like I was doing that and then some of these media went and said, ‘Wait a minute, he’s not doing that.’ So they were lying about that.”
“At the end of the day, we have folks, some people are on fixed income, very limited, and they will donate a certain amount and that’s very meaningful. Not everybody has the capacity to write these big (checks) we would never do automatic unless you personally as the contributor, press that button,” DeSantis continue, “And so I think it’s very important, particularly as Republicans, when you’re raising money amongst your own people, that you’re doing it in a way that has honesty. And so if my name is being used to trick people into providing donations for something that they don’t necessarily want to do, that is definitely wrong”
BOOM: @RonDeSantisFL responds to the LIES @TheView spews about him scamming his donors https://t.co/YzqH9fiswT
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 18, 2022
Griffin’s assertion was flatly refuted by Jerry Dunleavy, an investigative reporter for the Washington Examiner, after a short review of DeSantis’ fundraising website, which is controlled by the WinRed platform.
Declaring Griffin’s claim absolutely false, Dunleavy wrote, “Putting aside Alyssa Farah calling something a “grift”— I just checked & the WinRed donation page for DeSantis’s gubernatorial campaign does not automatically make a donation a recurring one, but instead it’s a box you have to voluntarily select yourself.”
Putting aside Alyssa Farah calling something a “grift”— I just checked & the WinRed donation page for DeSantis’s gubernatorial campaign does not automatically make a donation a recurring one, but instead it’s a box you have to voluntarily select yourself.https://t.co/Nflc1Nt4lf https://t.co/rmlTDkCb2Q pic.twitter.com/kCotEqJ8Xy
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) July 15, 2022
Sources: Dailywire, Flvoicenews, Ussanews