Are all politicians this blatant and all contributers this naive?

Saturday, Newt Gingrich asked me to join the President's Trust. Newt said I had to act quickly because the membership list was being sent to the White House at midnight. Here's the invitation:

When I clicked on the link to join the Trust, Newt asked me for a donation. He suggested amounts a lot higher than $1 and offered me the chance to make it a recurring donation:

The next day, I got an invitation to take a survey to show the liberal fake news outlets how out of touch with the truth they were on immigration.

I took the survey and, when I submitted it, got another request for a donation. It looked a lot like Newt's.

This is my first experience with a political mailing list and I have a couple questions:

• Is this typical -- have other presidents requested donations this frequently and this early in their terms?
• If so, is the childish deception in these offers typical?
• Outside of Trump's base "base," are people stupid enough to fall for this sort of thing?
• Who actually gets the money?