Trump’s Email Scams Exposed by Meidas Report…Elder Abuse?!!

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1:53Ben Meiselas:The Midas Touch Network has been on the front lines of exposing Donald Trump's email scams. We've been breaking stories about it now. Others are reporting on it as well. To me, it's nothing short of elder abuse what's taking place. Of course, I'm sharing with you my opinion. I want to bring out the receipts to show you how I believe, again, in my opinion, Donald Trump's campaign arm may, in my opinion, be swindling elderly individuals to giving Donald Trump their life savings without them even realizing what's taking place. I believe, in my opinion, that this is a concerted and intentional effort to swindle elderly people into giving Donald Trump their money.

2:37Ben Meiselas:And it also begs the question with these email scams that Donald Trump is running, where he claims he's fundraising. What is he fundraising for? What is he running for? Why does he need to even be taking the money of these people to begin with? He's not allowed to run again. And sure, I guess he can say, well, they're for my political action committees and here's what we're doing with it. Well, how are you spending that money? You know, for these political action committees, that money is tax free as well. So is this just an end run around paying taxes and bringing in this money and then that money is being spent as it had been spent in the past?

3:14You know, on Trump properties, on makeup and hair for Trump and his wife. What's actually happening here? Again, giving you my opinion, but you could tell me what your opinion is as well. Let's just go through what we exposed here on the Midas Touch Network.

3:29Ben Meiselas:I want to explain it to you in detail and how it has all the hallmarks of elderly abuse and elderly fraud as well. And as a litigator, when I was a litigator, I helped elderly people litigate these types of cases. So it has all the classic hallmarks of elder abuse, in my view, and manipulation and fraud, in my opinion. Again, I'm going to give you my opinion. So here's what I posted. This has since gone mega viral. This was at the bottom of one of Donald Trump's emails, and it says, alert, Democrats are gaining serious momentum. Their relentless attacks fueled by millions of dollars in dark money are paying off.

4:05MAGA is on the brink of disaster, and it's time to sound the alarm. President Trump can't hold back the woke mob alone. Keep this box checked to support MAGA in this do or die battle, exclamation point. You see that text is in red and there's lots of capital letters there as well. Alerts caps, brink of disasters in caps. Then you check that box in an email, which is normally what you think you do to kind of check the box to say that you've read a disclaimer or here. You're just saying, look, if you're a Trump supporter, I'm here to help you, Donald. Right. But you have to read below because in a harder to read gray font, it says donate an additional twenty five hundred dollars automatically on December 31st.

4:48So it's unclear from that line what's really happening here, especially if you're someone who's elderly and may not understand. But by checking the box that says that you're a Trump supporter, you've actually just donated an additional$2 ,500 to him from your account. And then it says that this donation qualifies for the gift offer. And I'll explain to you what that means in a moment. Now, lots of other outlets have since been reporting on our expose on this here at the Midas Touch Network. But I think it's important that we continue to break the ground on all of this important stuff because I think we have to call it out what it is.

5:25These are email scams, in my opinion, attacking the elderly. So in particular, also, it's of all ages. It's not like it's just going to elderly. I just think that this has all the class marks of trying to prey on a certain class of individuals. So the email that I just read that from where you click that box and you give them$2 ,500 without potentially realizing that that's what you're doing. Here's the email that you get sent. And I subscribe to this so you don't have to. It says, from Trump, and this is sent to his supporters, I'm in your chimney. Merry Christmas. I sent you a special Christmas letter.

5:58So if you're a Trump supporter, you're like, great, did I just get a Christmas letter? Then it shows a letter that's in AI. And it says, from President Trump to a very loyal MAGA patriot. Then it goes, I sent you a special Christmas letter, but my team says that it went to the wrong address. So I guess I'll stick to emails from here on out. Please consider this my way of saying thank you, Merry Christmas, and God bless you for standing with me when our country needs it the most. Then there's a link that says confirm address. So here this email is lying that Donald Trump sent you a letter in the mail.

6:33He never sent you a letter in the mail. So someone may think, wow, did the president of the United States send me a personal mail, a personal letter that I didn't see? Maybe he doesn't have my right address. So you click it and then you click it and it says, okay, let me try to give him what my accurate address is. So then when you click the confirm address about what your address is, it brings you to this page that says claim gift from Trump. Okay. So now you think, wait a minute, is he giving me a gift? And then it lists$47 claim gift from Trump,$100,$250,$500,$1 ,000,$2 ,500 claim gift from Trump.

7:16Do you see? It says it right there. So if you're reading this and you don't know better, you may be thinking, okay, it's Christmas. Is he giving me a$2 ,500 gift? Is he giving me a gift? And so maybe you click the highest amount,$2 ,500, or maybe you click$100. dollars, whatever. But you're like, maybe he's giving me a gift. No. By clicking that, you're giving him$2 ,500. Then as you go lower on this message, that's where you get the box that says, alert, Democrats are gaining serious momentum. Check this box. If you support MAGA in a do or die battle, you check that and then you give him$2 ,500 more.

7:59So in that email alone, someone may have accidentally been defrauded, in my opinion, into sending Donald Trump$5 ,000. And so Donald Trump sends messages like this over and over again. And so just for example, in the past few days, he kind of comes up with a topic and then he sends the email over and over and over and over again. And you may be saying, but doesn't that annoy people? It does. But also So elderly people sometimes forget if they got something or didn't get something. And so it's possible here, because I believe that's the class of individuals that he's also targeting here, that they go, oh, wait a minute.

8:38I'm sorry, but this is your final chance. So let me show you this email right here. It's a subject is, I'm sorry, but this is your final chance. And then it said, I had to reach out to you personally. Then it goes on to say, I am Donald Trump. I tried to upgrade your MAGA membership, but you never responded. Final call. View secret offer. And so elderly people sometimes think, wait a minute, did I call? Did he try to reach out to me, but I never responded? Did I miss a message from him? What's going on? So then you click view the secret offer, and here's what pops up. Invitation from Donald Trump.

9:19You didn't accept my offer the first time, so I'm personally delivering it the second time. Last chance to accept my special offer to get a 2026 Trump calendar shipped to your doorstep and join the impressive roster of Trump Diamond Club members.

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10:19Ben Meiselas:So if you or someone you know have a case like this, the consultation with Popak's firm is free. Give them a call. See if you have a case. It's thepopakfirm.com, thepopakfirm.com, or you can call 877-POPAKAF, P-O-P-O-K-A-F. So 1-877-P-O-P-O-K-A-F. Give Michael Popak a call. And I'm really proud of you, Popak. Thanks for all the hard work you're putting in. And then this one has a countdown clock, 55 minutes and 35 seconds. And so it tries to create a urgency of which you need to give him this money. And then, so it says$42,$50, a hundred dollars,$3 ,300. And once again, when you click that, it brings you down to another tab where it has that same thing that looks like a disclaimer and it says keep this box check if you support MAGA in a do or die battle and here for example you give a you may be giving an extra$3 ,300 automatically on December 31st when all you believe that you're doing is clicking that you support MAGA if you're a MAGA supporter also you don't automatically get the gift if you notice what it says in green and it's a little bit harder to read.

11:40It says, this donation qualifies for the gift offer. You see that right there. But notice the very first, this is why I also believe it's targeting elderly people. It realizes that most people who are getting these are retired. And so it makes it as easy as possible for a retired person to give Trump the money. It says, I'm retired. It's so easy to check that box. It's the most prominent thing. And then boom, the money gets sent to Donald Trump. And he has different ways of trying to extract the money from, I think, the elderly supporters of his. So there are emails like this. This is a new one that he's been using.

12:18And he sends them over and over again, sometimes the same exact email multiple times in a day. And any given day, sometimes he sends five, seven, 10 emails in one day asking for money. But here's one right here. Did my letter get buried in the snow? And notice it also says President Donald J. Trump, which it makes it seem like you're, again, getting something from the official presidential account versus a campaign. So you're thinking, wow, the president of the United States is emailing me and he's saying, did my letter get buried in the snow? And then you open this letter. And again, it uses a lot of tactics to pull on the heartstrings, I believe, of kind of elderly people as well.

12:58There's an AI image of Donald Trump looking sad and all alone and putting an envelope in a mailbox. And the message goes first. My son, Don Jr. reached out. Then my team reached out. Then I reached out by email. We were convinced that you no longer use this email. That's why I even reached out to you by mail four times, even in the snow. My team says that my letter might have gotten buried in the snow. I really need to share something important with you. That's why I'm so persistent. If you're here, please read this. Hurry. Letter enclosed here. Then that brings you to another page. You'll see the page right here.

13:34And it basically routes you again in a different way to try to give him money. This one's like bright yellow. And I think that color scheme is also being used intentionally as well to try to kind of grab people in and create this sense of urgency as well. There's lots of emails like this. I mean, just so you can see, I'm thankful for Ben. Ben, I've been waiting. I'm thankful for Ben. Are you busy? Your dog ate my email. Trump, this says, please don't wait until dawn. Please don't wait until dawn to see if we extend our deadline. I love you. But if you snooze, you lose. So then there's a lot of emails that do like love bombing.

14:14I love you. I might love you more than America. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. And this is a tactic as well. It's love bombing. And it's used again to prey on elderly people too, which is a common scam for elderly people who may be alone. Oh, he loves me. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you so much. There are so many emails like that. Another email that he uses, you know, in my opinion to scam people is he asks people if they want to receive a tariff rebate check or if they want to receive their Doge dividend check. And then it's like, claim your official Doge dividend check, claim it.

14:54Then you click the link as though you think you're getting a dividend check and then it brings you or a tariff rebate check. This is the only of, do you want me to give you one? This is the only official message. And he sends it from President Donald J. Trump. So people believe they may be getting, this is their rebate check. This is what they need. And they click the button and then they end up paying Donald Trump money versus actually receiving money. And this has all the hallmarks again, of elder abuse and financial fraud. Again, and just giving you my opinion, we're all entitled to our opinion of the First Amendment.

15:28So this right here, for example, comes from the National Council on Aging, the top five financial scams targeting older adults, romance scams. As more people turn to online dating, con artists are seizing on the opportunity. Romance scammers create social media profiles, use them to gain trust and steal money. But he doesn't have to do it. He's using his, he's saying, oh, this is Trump. I love you. I love you. I love you. Sweepstakes and lottery scams. The sweepstakes scam is familiar for many of us here. Bad actors call or email with good news. You think you've won some sort of prize, but in order to claim your winnings, the person must send money, cash, or gift cards up front, sometimes amounting to the thousands of dollars.

16:14Sometimes, you know, and then sometimes this has processing fees and other fees as well. And then, you know, notice what the Trump emails say. This qualifies you for a gift. This qualifies you for a trip to Mar-a-Lago. This qualifies you for this. So why do scammers often target seniors? According to the FBI, senior citizens are particularly vulnerable to certain types of fraud. They have money. They're more trusting, sometimes have memory problems, and that's used by scammers to be predatory. And to me, the hallmarks of all of that are on these Trump emails. There's also this from the FTC, false alarm, real scam, how scammers are stealing older adults' life savings.

17:00And let me just show you right over here, former director William Webster, the former director of the FBI, William Webster, in this video, offers a warning about elder fraud. And this is from the FBI's official site. Here play this clip. I served in World War II and Korea. I was a federal judge. I was the director of the FBI, director of the CIA, and I was the target of an elder fraud

17:38scheme. Don't fall for scammers' promises of money, friendship, love, or romance. These are criminals who want to take one thing, your money. You've worked hard. You've saved. Don't let criminals try to take that away from you. If you or a loved one have been affected by elder fraud, contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or visit IC3.gov to file a complaint. If it can happen to me, it can happen to you.

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