Here are some of the lucky winners of the Save America PAC lottery

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New in Public Notice: @samthielman w/ details on who actually received funds deceptively raised by the fake Trump election fund discussed by the J6 committee.

"Save America PAC was not much more than a piñata for Trump’s cronies and influential donors."

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Here are some of the lucky winners of the Save America PAC lottery
Trump’s deceitful fundraising feathered the nests of a number of familiar birds.
8:27 AM · Jun 22, 2022

https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/trump-save-american-pac-spending

Among the most infuriating revelations of the January 6 committee hearings has been that Trump used the opportunity of his own election loss to fundraise off his refusal to concede, funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into the Save America PAC even after he was repeatedly told he had in fact lost the election and had no legally viable path to change the result. The PAC was assembled on Nov. 9, 2020, and was the entity that received the funds raised by a nonexistent “Election Defense Fund” the campaign told its victims in emails it would be using to contest the election results — presumably legally, although the Trump camp seems to have strategically avoided the phrase “legal defense fund.”

The House committee investigating January 6 is focused on Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, but it has also uncovered old-fashioned Trump-style possibly-not-quite-illegal bilking, primarily of the conservative base of small-dollar donors that the former president’s various puppets now essentially control. (More on that a little lower down.) For decades before he took office, Trump, his allies, and his family established a trademark style, repeatedly swindling real estate clients and narrowly avoiding legal liability with various greasy settlements and backroom deals. Now, he’s brought that style to the entire Republican Party.

Save America was not much more than a piñata for Trump’s cronies and influential donors. According to the PAC’s FEC filings, more than $200,000 went to Trump’s hotels for facility rentals, catering, and other services. Anti-immigrant Trump advisor Stephen Miller appears to have drawn a regular salary from Save America for most of the last year, beginning on July 30, 2021, and continuing until the end of April. He made $4,181.91 every two weeks, even though the election he was supposedly working to overturn had been over for nine months by the time he started drawing those paychecks.

Others who received biweekly payouts labeled “payroll” from the group were Trump special adviser Eliza C Thurston, Dan Scavino, Melania Trump’s former chief of staff Hayley D’Antuono, Nicholas Luna, and Molly Michael. Last year, Insider reported that all of these people were also still drawing exorbitant government salaries until July 2021, when the official transition period ended and they started receiving money from Save America. (That money usually goes to rent office space and establish a presidential library; a former staffer told CNN that ex-presidents don’t usually max out their allowance.)

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[world wide wally]

2. Speaking of Presidential Libraries, has trump started building his yet?

[Nevilledog]

3. He'll start it in 2 weeks.