UPDATED: Bizarre Trump “rogue group” event in Virginia canceled

It is now Wed. Sep. 2 and this link and page are still active and asking for credit card payments to attend the function on Oct. 16th. Please clarify. If this is soliciting for an event that is not authorized by the Trump campaign, and for which Trump is not going to appear, then I am pretty sure it fraud and violates Fed. law. It may even be a felony.
https://donate.friendsofdt.us/attend

I have to somewhat disagree. Yes, we can get ahead of ourselves and it is important to be careful. Often times over-whelmed central headquarters — funnels at the bottleneck — can’t keep up with the activity and energy across the country.
On the other hand, Obama won in 2008 because he had THOUSANDS of unsanctioned, unauthorized, independent groups on social media and real world agitating for
Any campaign or candidate that is wound up about unauthorized activity IS GOING TO LOSE, 100% GUARANTEED.
Any campaign, especially for President nationwide, belongs to the people not the candidate and depends critically for success on the involvement of people more numerous and faster than any central supervisor can keep up with them.
For example, under Virginia law ballot petitions are circulated by CITIZENS who want the candidate on the ballot — not by the candidate or the campaign. The campaign can try to organize it. But the petition is by citizens who want the candidate on the ballot.
The campaign belongs to the people, not the other way around.
But without thousands of independent activiites, by grassroots organizers who don’t ask permission, no national campaign has a prayer of breaking 30%.
For example, the question was posed about raising money without approval of the campaign.
That’s called “bundling” and it is perfectly legal as long as no one engages in falsehoods and the money gets where the donors wanted it to go.
So if I walk around my neighborhood and invite my neighbors to write a check to Ted Cruz’s campaign, and then mail all the checks into the campaign, that’s called bundling and it is perfectly okay.

Since campaign contributions were solicited by this event online and according to a Trump campaign operative it was not a legitimate event, sounds to me that federal campaign fraud charges need to be looked into to protect the voters.

All campaigns need to be very careful whom they allow to be associated with their campaign period. There are plenty of individuals who are charismatic, and convincing that have no business being tied to anyone’s campaign. PWC and other jurisdictions have a host of characters who have managed to work their way into campaigns as operatives who have public records of assault charges and a federal crime against the executive branch of the US government to name a few. If campaigns don’t have the funds to spend on background checks on their employees and volunteers, a simple Google search would reveal many of the controversaries associated with individuals which can be verified by going to public court documents.

Thank you.