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Demovictory9

(32,443 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 03:53 PM Apr 2020

Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons' Significant Others Lara Trump and Kimber

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-secret-payments-sons-wife-girlfriend_n_5e9a1c46c5b635d25d6c747a

Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others
Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle are each receiving $15,000 per month through the campaign manager’s private company, GOP sources said, to dodge FEC rules

Lara Trump, left, and Kimberly Guilfoyle at a Feb. 3 news conference in Des Moines set up by the reelection campaign.
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through the campaign manager’s private company, according to top Republicans with knowledge of the payments.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of eldest son Donald Trump Jr., and Lara Trump, wife of middle son Eric Trump, are each receiving $15,000 a month, according to two GOP sources who are informal White House advisers and who spoke on condition of anonymity.

They were unsure when the payments began but say they are being made by campaign manager Bradley Parscale through his company rather than directly by either the campaign or the party in order to avoid public reporting requirements.

“I can pay them however I want to pay them,” Parscale told HuffPost on Friday, but then declined to comment any further.

Critics of the arrangement, including Republicans, said the setup was designed to get around Federal Election Commission rules that require campaigns, political parties and other committees to disclose their spending in detail.

“A lot of people close to Donald Trump are getting rich off of his campaign,” said Paul Ryan, a campaign finance legal expert at the watchdog group Common Cause. “They don’t want donors to know that they’re getting rich. Because, at the end of the day, it’s donor money.”
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mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. Welp ... anybody stupid enough to give Donald Trump money (or services) under any auspices at this
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 04:05 PM
Apr 2020

point ... must be doing so fully knowing that they will be ripped off by Needy Amin and the gaggle of grifters in which he is ensconced.

That being said ... LOCK THEM THE F*** UP!!!

brush

(53,758 posts)
3. I don't think it's a secret. Don't they work on his re-election campaign? Remember the Omarosa...
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 04:09 PM
Apr 2020

saga, the dim one's wife, offered Omarosa a salary at that level to kind of keep her in the fold before she wrote that book?

It's sleazy all right, and perhaps unethical as the money comes from campaign donors, but it's nothing unusual for that family.

Captain Zero

(6,799 posts)
4. I get an email from Lara every so often at my fake Republican email address.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 04:10 PM
Apr 2020

So she's earning her pay, but I get nothing from this other bimbo, so I am sure she is not earning her $180k. Bitch.

kimbutgar

(21,103 posts)
5. Sadly his cult members won't hear about this or won't care.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 04:11 PM
Apr 2020

That money can buy a lot of Botox injections for those two women!

Me.

(35,454 posts)
7. She Was Married To A Real Man...Gov. Newsom
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 04:58 PM
Apr 2020

and she settled for a cheating, stealing, lying, grifting adulterer like Jr. Looks like they were made for each other.

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