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If this isn't illegal, it should be.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-owned-businesses-received-millions-trumps-campaign?cid=sm_fb_maddow
Trump-owned businesses received millions from Trumps campaign
12/09/16 10:20 AMUpdated 12/09/16 10:35 AM
By Steve Benen
In 2000, when Donald Trump was openly discussing the possibility of a White House campaign, he made a curious boast: Its very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.
Sixteen years later, its not at all clear he was kidding.
In June, Rachel noted on the show that Trump was spending a striking amount of his campaign resources on Trump corporate products and services. As it turns out, this only intensified as the campaign progressed: NBC News reports this morning that Trumps political enterprise ended up spending $3 million on Trumps other enterprises in the election cycles closing weeks.
During the home stretch and the three weeks after Nov. 8, the campaign committee spent $2 million on his airline TAG Air to pay for the 737 he used to campaign across the country, and nearly $54,000 at various Trump restaurants. Other payments included more than $236,000 to his hotel in Las Vegas, where he stayed for two nights during the third presidential debate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Trumps campaign also generated some revenue for his children. Trumps son, Eric Trumps wine manufacturing company, received $21,164 worth of payments.
Remember, Trump spent months insisting without evidence that Hillary Clinton was somehow corrupt, but it was the Republicans operation that resembled an elaborate shell game.
Speaking of allegations of corruption, Ron Klain, a veteran of the Clinton and Obama administrations, noted yesterday that Trump gave his foundations largest donor a cabinet spot yesterday. Did you see blaring headlines? Imagine if {Hillary Clinton} had done that.
Its a fair point. For months, the evidence of Clinton Foundation wrongdoing was effectively non-existent, but Team Trump argued that her donors were the beneficiaries of special access and favors. Meanwhile, Trumps charitable foundation actually admitted to some legal transgressions, and the president-elect gave a plum assignment to its largest donor.
Indeed, many of the Republicans who gave Trump the most money during his presidential bid a campaign he falsely claimed to self-fund are now being rewarded with cabinet jobs for which they dont appear to be qualified.
Maybe Corrupt Hillary was yet another example of Trumps affinity for projection?
Cha
(296,801 posts)mindset.. he needs it more than they do.
And, the suckers sucked it up.. lock stock and barrel
raging moderate
(4,292 posts)Remember? One of his larger donors was later appointed to a hospital board. Republicons got him removed from office and put in jail. And there he still sits.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)It would totally keeping with his character to loan money to his campaign, pay it to himself, deduct it from taxes, and then pay himself back with other people's money.
He is a grifter.