A deputy to Eric Trump helped his family build a campaign shell company to protect the president
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
(5,225 posts)dchill
(40,127 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)for a long time. Parscales recent behavior was like a person who flipped on the boss.
Like Dump would say... Well see.
Blue Owl
(54,410 posts)pecosbob
(7,900 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,925 posts)I bet he taught the spawn to be just as proficient.
Firestorm49
(4,173 posts)reACTIONary
(5,963 posts)thenelm1
(912 posts)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?