Leftists hosts on ABC’s “The View” recently made a bold misinformation claim against DeSantis, stating that he had supposedly installed an automatic monthly donation program on his website.
They went on to say that the Florida Governor’s fundraising was due, in part, to him scamming his donors.
CNN contributor Alyssa Farah Griffin followed up on the topic 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 stated.
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 was quick to hit back at the false claims.
“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
Following a review of DeSantis’s website, investigative reporter for the Washington Examiner Jerry Dunleavy refuted Griffin’s assertion.
Dunleavy declared Griffin’s claim to be entirely false, writing, “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