Red Xue, who contributed $280 to the campaign, listed a Redding, California, address associated with a flight school catering to Chinese nationals. They gave in January, and also complained that they still hadn’t received their items.įifteen-year-old Andres Zapata donated $1,300 in late January, but said the promised hoodies still haven’t arrived. The Daily Beast spoke with two other West donors who said they were in high school. The West campaign did not reply to a request for comment for this article. It is illegal to knowingly solicit and accept campaign donations from anyone under the age of 18. Bloom, who communicates with other resellers on Discord social media boards, said that “I can say with confidence that at least half of us in the group have to be still in high school.” Students account for more than 1,200 of the campaign’s 3,161 reported donations, contributing a total $349,160, with $26,540 of that coming in this year. After that, Bloom said, he called his credit card company to dispute and cancel the charge, which he said is still under investigation. He provided a screenshot of an email that had bounced back from the campaign, showing that his address had been blocked. They said it would be three weeks, and after that I emailed the support team, and the email just wasn’t a thing.” “I ordered like 20 hoodies off his campaign website, along with a lot of other people that I know. “I don’t know what’s happening there,” Ian Bloom said. He launched his campaign in late July, marking the occasion with a meandering speech in South Carolina in which he said that “Harriet Tubman never actually freed the slaves,” cried, and posited that while abortion should be legal, “anyone who gives birth to a child be given $1 million.” The producer-cum-rapper-cum-serial entrepreneur was first hyped by Republicans hoping he would siphon young and minority voters from Democratic tickets, specifically by former President Trump’s top adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who in February confirmed reports that he had encouraged West to step into the ring during a “great discussion” at the rapper’s Wyoming ranch last summer. “In five-plus years of doing this I’ve never come across something like this,” said Jordan Libowitz, communications director for government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which has filed 14 federal lawsuits targeting illegal campaign finance activity since 2016. On top of that, experts say, West himself may face an investigation for unlawful fundraising practices that pulled in nearly $100,000 in small donations this year. The unusual violations in the West campaign’s FEC reports include multiple donations from minors, multiple possible contributions from foreign nationals and several fake names and addresses that trace to drop-shipping warehouses on both coasts. Former Birthday Party presidential contender Kanye West has not yet terminated his campaign, but he has disabled donations and removed merch from his website after receiving a notice from the Federal Election Commission and numerous complaints about extended shipping delays from some of his zoomer donors hopeful that their federal contribution would return a black-market payday.
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