This is astonishing. Who contributes to the fund of a partisan cop who used his position to punish political opponents and protect his friends? One has to wonder whether these donors would contribute to a street cop who came under fire from some of the groups demonstrating against cops. Of course they wouldn't.
But the answer to the question is "people who agree with his politics and want to punish opponents and reward the political agenda with which they agree."
For some reason, all the money he's making off this made me think of a scene from the 1984 movie "Repo Men" in which a likable loser played by Emilio Estevez was on financial hard times and tried to hit up his parents for an advance from his college fund. Sorry, they explained. They donated it all to a TV preacher.
Strzok is the poster child for the deep state, the high profile anti-Trumper who misused his government position. This was far worse than anything Michael Flynn did. And there's a growing since of unfairness floating around the country among potential voters.
Related: Why Are People Giving Peter Strzok Their Money? by Kat Timpf.
Post script: I started this blog post Thursday morning, and by Friday noon, Peter Strzok's gofundme account was at $430,917 -- having grown by about $15,000 the past 24 hours. Heck, maybe he'll reach or exceed his $500,000 goal.
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10:15 AM 8/16/2018
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