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That same autumn day, Jim Haskins, another Facebook commenter, lauded Trump’s independence. “Every other candidate will have to take big donors money, then they will be bought and paid for. Right now Hillary is owned by Soros, and Sanders is owned by the Unions,” he wrote. “That is why I'll only vote for Trump.”

Just two months ago, The Facebook group USA Patriots for Donald Trump posted this:

Said Kathy Dixon, a commenter on that post, “Soros has met a leader, Donald Trump, the leader for we the people, whom he will never own. Trump is not for sale.” Missouri resident Linda Isgrig wrote, “He is the evil of this whole world. What he does should be totally illegal.” Linda Hall-Cassel, another Soros critic, wrote, “We need to spread the word every chance we get, and make sure to include those associated with him.”

Last week, after Ted Cruz dropped out of the race for the GOP nomination––Trump once said of Cruz, “Goldman Sachs owns him. Remember that, folks: They own him."––Trump put Steven Mnuchin in charge of soliciting campaign funds from big-money donors. Who is he? “In 2003, the new finance director started a hedge fund with $1 billion from George Soros, the liberal New York financier who has spent more than $13 million to support Hillary Clinton and other Democrats,” Bloomberg Politics reports. Before that, Mnuchin “spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., working his way up to partner and becoming head of the mortgage department before joining Hank Paulson in the executive suite.”

Prior to hiring the former hedge-fund manager, Trump told an interviewer on CBS, “The hedge-fund guys didn't build this country.These are guys that shift paper around and they get lucky. They are energetic. They are very smart. But a lot of them—they are paper-pushers. They make a fortune. They pay no tax. It's ridiculous."

Trump appears to have conned his supporters. Is he remorseful? On Tuesday, I asked this of Trump’s campaign:

A question for @realDonaldTrump: will you return donations from supporters who gave based on belief you wouldn't take from big donors? — Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) May 10, 2016

I was thinking in particular of Jason Sams, because I’d just read a question that the retired Army vet asked Trump on Facebook: “Where can we the American people send donations? I am 100% disabled determined by the VA with service connected disabilities. However with my limited income every dollar adds up and you will stay true to your core if the donations come from the American people and not corporations.”

For those who gave trust instead of money, restitution is more difficult. And many were trusting.

“Trump is the only one not controlled by others,” Vernon Wayne of Essie, Kentucky wrote.

“The least one can do is THANK YOU, for your sacrifice and generosity,” retired realtor Ernestine Hronas commented.