Trump Shifted Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business After Losing The Election

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Trump Shifted Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business After Losing The Election
Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, which never received a cent from the former president, has now moved an estimated $2.8 million of donor money into the Trump Organization—including at least...
forbes.com
12:00 PM · Feb 5, 2021

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2021/02/05/trump-shifted-campaign-donor-money-into-his-private-business-after-losing-the-election/?sh=19aa182f4418

Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, which never received a cent from the former president, moved an estimated $2.8 million of donor money into the Trump Organization—including at least $81,000 since Trump lost the election.

In addition, one of the campaign’s joint-fundraising committees, which collects money in partnership with the Republican Party, shifted about $4.3 million of donor money into Trump’s business from January 20, 2017, to December 31, 2020—at least $331,000 of which came after the election.

The money covered the cost of rent, airfare, lodging and other expenses. All the payments are laid out in filings the campaign submitted to the Federal Election Commission. Representatives for the Trump Organization, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Two days after the election, on November 5, the joint-fundraising committee paid $11,000 to Trump’s hotel empire. A week later—after the Associated Press, Fox News and other major media outlets had already called the race for Joe Biden—the same committee put another $294,000 into Trump’s hotel business to rent space, order catering and pay for lodging. The campaign pitched in additional change—$110 that had been earmarked for recount efforts on November 16, another $220 the following day and $189 more the day after that.

On November 19, the campaign paid $31,000 for air travel to a company named DT Endeavor LLC. Five days later, the joint-fundraising committee paid the same entity $39,000. Forbes did not include those payments in its overall total of money moving into Trump’s empire, since it’s not 100% clear that the former president owns DT Endeavor LLC. There are strong indications that he does, though. The federal filings list the address for the DT Endeavor LLC as Trump Tower in one spot and Mar-a-Lago in another. Trump also owns an aviation company with an almost identical name, DT Endeavor I LLC.

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[soothsayer]

1. Grifting grifter

[Zoonart]

2. Color me shocked.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Grifters gotta grift! n/t

[DeminPennswoods]

4. Trump is 100% about OPM

other people's money.

[Yonnie3]

5. Who would have thought this would happen?

I would have,

would you?

Caution: Rhetorical question above.

[Skittles]

6. imagine how stupid you'd have to be to donate to that grifting con man

mind-boggling

[Botany]

7. It is not like he stole money from kids with cancer or ran a phony univeristy in order to scam ...

... widows and families out of the money they got from their kin's death benefits after
getting killed while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

People who still give money and or still support Trump have to be the dumbest fuckers in the world. Grifters gotta grift.
They are like people who watch reruns of "Walker Texas Ranger," and are surprised when he kicks the bad guy in the head.

Trump Raised $76 Million — Then Spent Nothing On Vote Challenges Or Georgia

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-slush-fund_n_6018900dc5b6bde2f5c232bb

[Skittles]

9. to be fair

we already knew how stupid they were when they voted for him the first time

[sarcasmo]

8. Above the law.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Of course he did...