Trump Busted For Illegally Laundering $170 Million In Campaign Donations

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/07/28/trump-laundering-campaign-donations.html

Posted on Tue, Jul 28th, 2020 by Jason Easley
Trump Busted For Illegally Laundering $170 Million In Campaign Donations


A complaint has been filed against the Trump campaign for illegally laundering $170 million through the companies of former campaign manager Brad Parscale.

The Campaign Legal Center filed the complaint and said in a statement provided to PoliticusUSA:

Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and joint fundraising committee. The campaign and its committee violated the law by laundering nearly $170 million in campaign spending through firms headed by Trump’s former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, and other firms created by Trump campaign lawyers.

The campaign reported millions in payment–American Made and Parscale Strategy—which disbursed the funds to the campaign’s ultimate vendors. Ultimately, this hid millions in payments to companies engaged in significant work for the campaign, as well as payments to Trump family members or associates like Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle.

The Trump campaign appears to be laundering donations and using the money to pay Trump’s family and associates. Trump is also trying to hide money for work being done for his campaign.

“Voters have a right know how campaigns are spending money to influence elections,” said CLC President and former Republican Chair of the FEC Trevor Potter. “This scheme flies in the face of transparency requirements mandated by federal law, and it leaves voters and donors in the dark about where the campaign’s funds are actually going. This secrecy could also disguise other campaign finance violations, but we don’t know, because the campaign isn’t disclosing these routed payments.”

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https://www.politicususa.com/2020/07/28/trump-laundering-campaign-donations.html

[KewlKat]

1. Is it jail time for these scumbags yet?

LOCK EM UP....EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.

[cyndensco]

27. That was my first thought.

Shouldn't he be in prison for this?

Oh, but It's the Law and Order president

[mnmoderatedem]

2. surprise surprise

Obama does something like that, it's the scandal of the century.

Trump does it, it's Tuesday.

[JHB]

14. It would be the scandal of the century if Obama did something like that for 170 CENTS

[NewJeffCT]

23. Yep

Republicans would already be scheduling impeachment hearings as well.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Not busted. Accused.

Busted is when you're led away in handcuffs, which hasn't happened. Typical PoliticsUSA tendentious and inaccurate headline; they're almost as bad as Raw Story. I hope Trump is busted for something someday but I'm not holding my breath.

[thesquanderer]

32. A Jason Easley headline. Always clickbait. n/t

[crickets]

4. Is anyone surprised?

This isn't even the first time they've been caught with a hand in the campaign till.

[RockRaven]

5. Reminder: the FEC can't do anything b/c they don't have enough members for a quorum

And why Trump has refused to appoint new members to fill the vacancies is very obvious

[duforsure]

7. That would constitute obstruction , and conspiring to undermine the law,

Clear abuses of his power to self protect from having any consequences, and to escape justice , while he claims he's the law and order candidate. trump always claims the opposite of the truth , and projects lies onto himself, and his crimes onto others.

[DanieRains]

6. Grifters Gonna Grift

As always.

[TeamPooka]

28. Traitors gonna trait. nt

[panader0]

8. This is good, what's happening with the inauguration money investigation?

[Blue Owl]

9. Lock them up.

[Lock him up.]

26. I second that wholeheartedly, plus:

RICO TRUMP$ AND ACCOMPLICE$
ESTABLISH EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL

[Dios Mio]

10. Water off a fucks back.

[Takket]

11. Appreciate the oversight work but...

They should really keep this to themselves until the next president is sworn in. Now that this is on their radar drumpf will just pardon it all away.

[Totally Tunsie]

12. Tell us again, donnie, how you're such a big man

you're going to donate your $400K salary back each year. Now tell us how many hundreds of millions you're pulling out to line your pockets.

[tinrobot]

13. Parscale is the bag man. Explains why he wasn't fired immediately after Tulsa.

[lagomorph777]

15. Trump is running the campaign as a profit center.

He knows his behavior makes the race unwinnable, but that's beside the point. His campaigns are the first things he's ever made a profit on.

[lindysalsagal]

16. Hey, October: Surprise!!!

Those donations from middle and working class people are lining the pockets of his family and cronies.


Riiiiiight.


EAT. THAT. GOP!!!!!

[onetexan]

24. yea we got an early Halloween gift

[dreamland]

17. I wonder who he'll choose as the fall guy this time.

[Lucky Luciano]

18. Nothing will come of this.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. They let you do it ... shoot someone on 5th Ave ... not a crime when the Prez does it

Machiavellian. The Borgias had nothing on Trump.

[SallyHemmings]

20. I'm shocked

[Wounded Bear]

31. Indeed!

[Amaryllis]

21. Simply shocking. We had no idea...

[mwooldri]

22. IOKIYAR...

Democrats are subject to the rules. Trump Party? Not so much.

[Politicub]

25. I think this is the tip of the iceberg. The volume of money

laundering happening right now must be staggering.

Bills are being passed that are in the trillions. A trillion dollars is 1,000 billions. There are some people getting richer right now, while the rest of us hang on the edge by our fingernails just to make our monthly expenses.

[dalton99a]

29. Trump's criminal specialty: money laundering.

[Wounded Bear]

30. Anybody who is surprised has not been paying attention...nt

[ffr]

33. That's a lot of money to try to conceal.

It's been a looting since the day he started his campaign!

[progressoid]

34. Busted?

Not holding my breath for anything to come of this either. Another day, another crime.

[GeorgeGist]

35. They'll boost the silverware on the way out ...

Jan 20, 2021

[FakeNoose]

36. This is pilferage - THEFT! Money laundering makes it sound too fancy

Chump is a thief, his family are all thieves.

That's why he started his re-election campaign the day after his Inaugural.
He immediately started pilfering from his next campaign.
And that is all he has done for the last 3.8 years.

[Pepsidog]

37. Think that's bad, imagine the money Mnuchin is funneling to Trump businesses.

[Duppers]

38. Lock Them Up!

Lock Them Up! Lock Them Up!

[warmfeet]

39. If this administration is not held to account for the crime and corruption

we have all witnessed, things are likely to become much worse in the near future.

[jimlup]

40. Back in the day this would have been major news...

now it's like ho-hum.... nobody will be able to do anything and it hardly raises an eyebrow.

God what has our country come to? The Orange clown, and more specifically, his Republican enablers, have put us here. What a complete waste of flesh and blood.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

41. I guess "busted" isn't what it used to be.

This crooked pos needs to suffer consequences.

[czarjak]

42. It's like cheating fair and square isn't really a thing?

[Texin]

43. Everything the fuckin' tRump family (all of them) does is for self-enrichment.

(I need to edit this to exempt Mary L. tRump who, along with her brother Fritz, were cheated out of their rightful inheritance when their father died at 44 years old).

I finished her book about the tRump family yesterday, and boy was it a sobering expose. The only family I've ever seen as sick and dysfunctional as this one is/was is the fictional Newman family on The Young & the Restless. Everything that Shitler does and has done in his execrable life can be blamed entirely on his father, Fred Sr., and his all but worthless mother. The entire family was ruined by those two. This is not to say that Shitler doesn't have his own character traits and general nature that would have influenced him, but parental influence and instruction can ameliorate the most destructive aspects of it. He received no ameliorating influences throughout his lifetime, instead being led by his abusive and grasping so-called father.