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riversedge

(72,410 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 05:09 PM 13 hrs ago

Trump Super-PAC Sent Out Bogus Medicare Cancellation Notice to Scare Voters About Kamala Harris

Source: Mother Jones


3 hours ago

MAGA, Inc. has disseminated a mailer to seniors that claims the veep is shutting down the program.


David Corn

In Arizona, older people recently received a mailer declaring Medicare had been cancelled. It had a big red stamp that proclaimed, “Medicare Cancellation Notice.” Also emblazoned on its front was this: “Warning: Rates are going up & plans are being cancelled. Details enclosed.” Its return address was the “Department of Medicare Cancellation, Kamala Harris Administration.”

That return address should have been a tip-off that this was not an official notification—along with a scrawled add-on in cursive: “I hope you can afford to lose your insurance! — Kamala Harris XOXO.”

It’s hard to know whether any recipient saw this and received a shock, fearing their Medicare was being cut off. But the group that sent out this official-looking piece of campaign literature, Make America Great Again, Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC, was spreading false and misleading information about Medicare and about Harris.
The mailer sent out by Make America Great Again, Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC. It is designed as a “Medicare cancellation notice,” but it’s a misleading piece of campaign literature.

The backside of the notice claimed that Harris is “destroying Medicare.” .....................

Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/trump-super-pac-maga-inc-sent-out-bogus-medicare-cancellation-notices-arizona/



Of all the low down, dirty nasty things to do!!










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Trump Super-PAC Sent Out Bogus Medicare Cancellation Notice to Scare Voters About Kamala Harris (Original Post) riversedge 13 hrs ago OP
the billionaires don't have enough fucking money PedroXimenez 12 hrs ago #1
We need to tax them more so they have less to give to vermin like this ArkansasDemocrat1 12 hrs ago #2
18 U.S. Code § 1035 - False statements relating to health care matters Hermit-The-Prog 12 hrs ago #3
Exactly Quanto Magnus 6 hrs ago #8
how is this legal Skittles 12 hrs ago #4
Been sending the same crap to Georgia for months now mdbl 12 hrs ago #5
There should be more than one reason slightlv 11 hrs ago #6
I want to see charges brought on Trump's PAC & I want it yesterday! NotHardly 11 hrs ago #7
isn't... myohmy2 5 hrs ago #9

PedroXimenez

(431 posts)
1. the billionaires don't have enough fucking money
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 05:17 PM
12 hrs ago

they have to do this shit to get more.

MAGA, Inc. is the top pro-Trump super PAC. It has raised over $300 million during the 2024 campaign, most of it from Republican billionaires, including Howard Lutnick, the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald; Paul Singer, a hedge fund manager; Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner and real estate magnate who went to jail for tax evasion and for retaliating against a federal witness (and whom Trump pardoned); and Timothy Mellon, the reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune, who has pumped in over $150 million. (Mellon also gave $25 million to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s failed presidential campaign.) MAGA, Inc., according to a memo it released this summer, aims to spend at least $100 million in ads to portray Harris as “the most radical liberal ever to run for President.”

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,236 posts)
3. 18 U.S. Code § 1035 - False statements relating to health care matters
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 05:43 PM
12 hrs ago
18 U.S. Code § 1035 - False statements relating to health care matters

(a) Whoever, in any matter involving a health care benefit program, knowingly and willfully—

(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact; or

(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any materially false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry, in connection with the delivery of or payment for health care benefits, items, or services, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

(b) As used in this section, the term “health care benefit program” has the meaning given such term in section 24(b) of this title.

slightlv

(4,047 posts)
6. There should be more than one reason
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 06:47 PM
11 hrs ago

this is illegal. Yes, my husband got ripped off by a scam and cleaned out our bank account. we're only now beginning to get back on our feet... so I DO have one hell of a dog in this fight... as does ANY senior or anyone of any age who cares for a senior. What this PAC did is the same thing, for all intents and purposes, that the scam artists did to my DH. It's despicable. It's evil. And for some seniors, it could lead to a heart attack or stroke. Will we be able to fry these repug scammers for murder in that case? I doubt it. They'll just merrily go on their own terrorizing way. EVIL!

myohmy2

(3,566 posts)
9. isn't...
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 12:20 AM
5 hrs ago

...that fraud or something...?

...there isn't an American alive that doesn't know and understand that the Dems are the Party of Social Security and Medicare...

...anything that would harm Medicare or Social Security would have to be Republican...

...good try but no cigar...

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