Rachel Maddow tweet: "Campaign donations turned into private revenue for POTUS"

[iluvtennis]

Rachel Maddow MSNBC@maddow·12m
“Campaign donations turned into private revenue for POTUS”
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David Fahrenthold@Fahrenthold · 59m
In just two days, @realdonaldtrump’s campaign pumped $380K into Trump’s private business, in 43 separate payments. Trump Org says this was for a weeklong “donor retreat,” held in early March at Mar-a-Lago.
Campaign donations turned into private revenue for POTUS

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trump is nothing but a fkn money laundering criminal. can't wait for his ass to lose in Nov 2020.

[malaise]

1. Lock him up

and NOW

[SheltieLover]

2. This!👆

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. And put him in a cell with wall to wall pictures of Obama and Hillary.

[malaise]

6. and BLM painted on the ceiling and floor

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. That might make him Epstein himself.

Make sure there is no rope in the cell.

[Nevilledog]

10. Or make sure there is just enough rope and a book on how to tie knots.

[KS Toronado]

26. If trumpig was a martyr it might help repugs keep control of their deplorable base,

We need him in JAIL saying/tweeting stupid shit so maybe his base might question why they believed in him.

[JHB]

28. On the ceiling

On the floor, he can piss on it.

[lagomorph777]

20. Let him keep doing it to weaken his campaign, piss off donors, AND set himself up for jailtime.

[0rganism]

3. look at that list -- he's running a goddam money laundromat

Donald Trump truly is the greatest con-man our country has ever known

[Andy823]

5. I think that's the plan

get all the "donations" he can before he is voted out of office. I really don't think he wants to serve another term. He can "fleece the sheep" from now till the election and funnel the money into his own pocket, with one scam or another.

He just wants the money!

[leftieNanner]

9. I remember when he blew up at Chris Christie

spending "some of his money" during the transition. He thinks of ALL of it as his money.

[Andy823]

12. I remember that also

his whole family are grifters, and by the time he leaves office there will be millions, maybe even billions that have been stashed away by the trump clan. A lot of it from taxpayers, and a lot from "deals" with other countries that lined his trumps pockets.

[lagomorph777]

22. "serve" another term - not sure "serve" is the correct verb here.

"be served" might be more accurate.

[Sanity Claws]

7. 22 entries on March 31 alone!

It's about $200,000 in a single day. Wow!

I wonder what Trump Hotel claimed on its sales tax return. There are taxes on these alleged services. I certainly have my doubts that Trump Hotel actually declared all of these catering or other sales and paid the relevant taxes.

[a kennedy]

11. and love his reference to draining the swamp, "only it's a lot deeper then I thought"

He’s so fawking deep in his own damn swamp, with his family as well. Ugh......swamp indeed.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Never more than $10,000 - was that an attempt to avoid a reporting requirement?

It looks like money laundering, to me.

[dalton99a]

23. Clearly.

[Demovictory9]

34. Yep..looks like it

[genxlib]

36. What jumped out at me

It's not just that the amounts are under 10k

It is that they are in such predictable patterns of something that is trying to look unpredictable.

There is one odd number then one for 8000. Then they go up 100 like clockwork until it hits 10k then starts over.

It is like they wrote some kind of lazy script to monkey with the numbers.

Maybe I have been watching too much Ozark but it looks like money laundering to me.

[muriel_volestrangler]

37. Yeah, I noticed that - not wanting to repeat a number, I guess

It looks like "start at $10,000, then take off $100 each time, until your last payment is under $10,000". Whether the list came strictly ordered by time each day, or by just date first, and then increasing amount, I don't know.

[Faux pas]

14. Kickin' with disgust!

[crickets]

15. Damn. Not even trying to hide it any more, not that they ever tried very hard. nt

[ffr]

16. Would a public flogging be out of the question?

Asking for a friend.

[OMGWTF]

30. Stockades to be pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes, followed by a tar-and-feathering,

followed by being run out of town on a rail, followed by life in prison doing hard time. That's my happy ending!

[Jacoby365]

17. Income for an event three weeks earlier? Mar-a-lago was shut down due to the virus before March 31st

Dump had a payment due on the 1st of April?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Donny #1: Most corrupt, most incompetent, most authoritarian, arrogant, soon to be most hated. . nt

[calimary]

19. And who is surprised by this?

I was telling my husband just last night - "and here, I thought what trump really after was to have the Presidential seal attached to all the merch in his various golf resort pro shops." I was completely suspicious already, but I didn't dream of the lengths he'd go to. But no wonder. Business is down at his resorts. They're losing money. And he certainly can't have that!

Asset forfeiture, anyone?

[xxqqqzme]

21. All along I've said

he saw the permafrost princess run her campaign-for-some-pretend-office scam and stuff her pockets with donor dollars. Since he was running on empty he needed cash and donor dollars was the fastest way to get it.

[WyattKansas]

24. tRUMP has always been a cheap wannabe Gordon Gekko since the 80s and has never changed.

With sleazy used car salesman tendency obsessions. The Republican Party found their perfect leader and Vladimir Putin found his perfect useful idiot to fuck over the United States of America.

Anyone in the United States who does not know or admit this fact, is being dishonest, greedy, on a power trip, or wants their hateful desires implemented on others. As far as I am concerned a damn novice could clearly see that electing Donald Dumbass as pResident would inflict danger and damage to the United States, so all of his supporters do NOT have a right to have their toxic gas/virus spewed anywhere... They propped up and encouraged a fraud and traitor, so they can all go to hell.

[Catch2.2]

25. Is this not blatantly illegal??

The whole Trump Crime Family needs to go down. If they are not prosecuted this will continue by future politicians at a larger scale.

[DeminPennswoods]

27. Grifters gonna grift

nt

[theaocp]

29. His supporters will empty their pockets and be proud of it.

They don't care. The brain has been washed clean.

[IcyPeas]

31. and what will be done to reign him in?

Or is this one of those legal loopholes? how will he be held accountable? Can't the IRS see this? Hello? Hello? anybody out there?

[MyMission]

32. I've gotten spam money requests from trump team (why me?)

One recently made it into my inbox, so looked at my spam folder and there are so many.

I've copied a few below. They came on July 16. Others came offering free yard signs. One from Don Jr admonishing that his father had written and I had not responded. Lol

Looks like he's scamming to get funds. Not surprised he's pocketing the money.

Here are some of their creepy fundraising tactics.

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President Trump Signature Headshot
Donald J. Trump
President of the United States

CONTRIBUTE $45

DU friends,
I've emptied my spam folder now that I've shared some of the creepy requests for Don the con. They come from multiple sources, and I have no clue why or how I made it on their lists.

[Demovictory9]

33. Crook

[smirkymonkey]

35. Jail is too good for him.

He and his entire grifting family should go before a firing squad. They deserve nothing less.