A deputy to Eric Trump helped his family build a campaign shell company to protect the president

[sabra]

Source: Business Insider

EXCLUSIVE: A deputy to Eric Trump helped his family build a campaign shell company to protect the president from grift. But the secretive operation morphed into a mystery — even for top Trump campaign staffers.

The Trump campaign shell company that helped hide $617 million in 2020 presidential campaign spending was almost exclusively a Trump family production, run in part by a top deputy to Eric Trump, Insider has learned.

That Eric Trump deputy, attorney Alex Cannon, worked closely to run American Made Media Consultants with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump daughter-in-law Lara Trump, and former campaign manager Brad Parscale. Together, they built a campaign shell company so powerful and opaque that key Trump campaign aides feared what they might uncover if they learned too much about its operations, according to interviews with more than a dozen Trump advisors and Republicans close to the campaign.

Vast swaths of AMMC's spending still remain a mystery to the public and Trump's own campaign team, although Insider was able to uncover some of American Made Media Consultants' expenditures based on interviews and public documents filed with the Federal Election Commission.

The power and secrecy of the shell company has spurred calls for federal investigations, including requests filed by three Democratic lawmakers after Insider broke the news last week of Kushner and Lara Trump's involvement.


Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-trump-deputy-kushner-campaign-spending-shell-company-2020-12

[alwaysinasnit]

1. k&r for visibility

[dchill]

2. How seasonal! The Grift That Keeps On Grifting!

[Baked Potato]

3. I think Federal investigators have been working these operations

for a long time. Parscale’s recent behavior was like a person who flipped on the boss.

Like Dump would say... We’ll see.

[Blue Owl]

4. One of Gums' bums

[pecosbob]

5. Bring him in and make him squeal.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. I believe the one thing the "stable genius" is a master of, is money laundering.

I bet he taught the spawn to be just as proficient.

[Firestorm49]

7. Damn it! This is but one why Citizens United needs to be repealed.

[reACTIONary]

9. What does this have to do with Citizens United? nt

[thenelm1]

8. Eric Trump has a 'deputy'? Seriously?

Sounds more like a baby-sitter to me. Or a nanny. Someone to tie his shoes and make sure he zipped up his fly? Or wipe up the spittle and poo 'mini-me #2' leaves behind?

[SergeStorms]

10. "to protect the president from grift."

I think they meant, "to protect the president's grift." Two guesses where that money ended up, and the first one doesn't count.

[Initech]

11. You can't protect the president from "grifting" if he's a grifter himself!