“Are you a proud American Citizen or does ICE need to come and track you down?” the email said.

Donald Trump’s administration has been using federal officers to go after undocumented immigrants, but now his political action committee is threatening to sic the agents on his own donors.

Earlier this week, Trump’s Never Surrender PAC sent out a fundraising email that had this provocative subject line: “Are you an illegal alien?”

“Your file says you’re a top MAGA patriot… But my records to my survey STILL say: RESPONSE PENDING. Don’t tell me, you’re an Illegal Alien?!? That cannot be true!” the message said, before adding, “This is your FINAL MOMENT to Prove me wrong … please. Are you a proud American Citizen or does ICE need to come and track you down?”

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    Hahahaha I wonder how maga will respond to blackmail threats. I want to think badly but I have no fucking idea anymore.

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      This is not new for them, they have done this during election season sending out emails saying the president knows you haven’t been donating like you were before and he’s disappointed in you and we’re keeping track kind of shit.

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      Congress even passed a law as I recall demanding their release over a month ago, but the phile’s files seem like they’re never coming out, continuing to break the law in the process.

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        Was their even a consequence stated on if they didn’t release the files? I’m guessing at most probably just a fine which equates to a slap on the wrist. Unless it’s immediate prison time for 50+ years with no bail or parole, then it’s not that important to them.

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    Nothing says, “ICE is a legitimate government agency serving an unfortunate but necessary purpose,” like “answer this survey or answer to ICE.”

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    It’s always funny to me that these emails are always written from a first person pov… I guess they know their audience, and these idiots think there’s a real person on the other end talking to them

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      There is…

      Boomer trump voters are actually reading them, and some staffer at least reads what chagpt spits out.

      People always think Republicans are bad at messaging for some reason, but they’ve been exploiting psychology for decades.

      This shit works on trump voters, but its not going to work on everyone.

      Like, there’s actual physical differences in the brains between left and right political voters. It’s why neoliberals trying to use Republican strategy never works well. If it worked on Dem voters we wouldn’t be Dem voters.

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        At election time I get emails from democrat candidates in my spam folder. They’re also first-person.

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          It’s why neoliberals trying to use Republican strategy never works well.

          I’m aware that some politicians with a D by their name think and act like Republicans and assume everyone else does as well.

          That was the whole neoliberalism thing in the 80s when “moderate” Republicans took over the Dem party

          That “experiment” ended last year and we’ll get a fair primary again btw. There’s still some shitty neoliberals in office, but we’ve never had a better opportunity to replace them then these next two primaries

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      It’s all by design…they know that anyone who is dumb enough to believe that Trump wrote the email himself is also dumb enough to believe its content and donate.

      I mean, they’ve already believed everything else they hear from their dear leader, so is this email actually surprising? It’s nothing in the face of nearly a decade’s worth of bullshit they’ve been happily scarfing down and voting in approval of.

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    So this brings up a thought I’ve had. You can easily look up a person’s political donations and find their address through public records. Wouldn’t it be interesting if groups of masked, armed men started going around to known Trump supporters to demand that they pay protection fees