Doxing Stunt Is Turning into $1 Million Mistake for Castro and Other Trump-Hating Democrats as Victim Says Big Fundraising Happening
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By Bradley Evans
Published August 12, 2019 at 2:16pm
If Democratic Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro thought his doxing stunt would dissuade Republicans from donating to President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, he could not have been more wrong.
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show on Wednesday, Castro, who is the chairman of his twin brother Julian Castro’s presidential campaign, told host Willie Geist that “what I would like for [Trump donors] to do is think twice about supporting a guy who is fueling hate in this country.”
But the donors haven’t exactly “thought twice” about continuing to support Trump. Instead, they’ve doubled down.
“It looks like another million dollars is now headed to support the Trump 2020 campaign from those of us who were targeted, and other Texans, including Hispanics, incidentally, whose resolve to support [the president] is only strengthened by this personal attack,” one donor, attorney R.H. Bowman, said according to the Washington Examiner.
In an Aug. 5 tweet, Castro published on Twitter a list of 44 people from around San Antonio, Texas, who had donated the maximum amount to the president in 2019.
See a redacted version of the tweet below.