Making Money Off Tragedy, Trump Sends Fundraising Email In Wake Of Las Vegas Shooting

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Saturday, Oct. 07, 2017 Saturday, Oct. 07, 2017 at 3:10:09pm PDT

LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 21: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel's 16th annual Outdoor Sportsman Awards at The Venetian Las Vegas during the 2016 National Shooting Sports Foundation's Shoo — "No event is too big or too small to keep me from making a buck off of idiots."

There’s an old saying that misery loves company and apparently money loves tragedy. Just when you thought that Donald Trump couldn’t possibly get more tasteless, his new strategy of capitalizing on every tragedy that the nation experiences, literally capitalizing by sending out a fundraising email was revealed by Rachel Maddow on The Tonight Show. The NFL controversy was the subject of last week’s fundraiser, this week’s is focused on the shooting tragedy in Las Vegas:

Unreal: the Trump campaign just sent an email using the Las Vegas shooting to fundraise for the campaign. pic.twitter.com/MWYu0Sa3VF
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) October 7, 2017