DeSantis Responds to The View’s LIES About Scamming His Donors

Nicholas Fondacaro | July 18, 2022
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NewsBusters was first on the scene last week when ABC’s The View peddled disinformation suggesting Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis was scamming his donors with an auto-donate feature on his website. And in a press conference on Monday, DeSantis addressed the false accusations saying “they were lying about that,” and denounced the practice of campaigns automatically setting up recurring donations as “definitely wrong.”

During a discussion on Friday’s edition of The View about 2024 and donations to the DeSantis campaign, faux Republican and rumored permanent ‘conservative’ cast member Alyssa Farah Griffin suggested his campaign was scamming people by automatically signing them up for recurring monthly donations they needed to opt-out of.

“For folks who aren't familiar, what a lot of these apps and websites do is you click to give once, and it actually signs you up to recurrently give. It is so unfair. It is a grift. It is terrible,” she asserted. And she was backed up by co-host Sunny Hostin who claimed, without evidence, “people are losing their homes” and “losing their savings” because of him.

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