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highplainsdem

(49,038 posts)
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 12:37 PM Feb 2021

Trump campaign paid Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem $6,000 during effort to overturn election result

Source: Arizona Republic

Former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign reported paying $6,037 to a business owned by state Rep. Mark Finchem while the lawmaker pushed for the Legislature to overturn Joe Biden's victory in Arizona.

The campaign reported in its latest financial disclosure that it made a payment on Dec. 18 to “Mrk Finchem PLLC” and the address provided for the company is the lawmaker’s home. The campaign labeled the expense as “recount: legal consulting.”

Finchem, R-Oro Valley, said the payment was a reimbursement "for crowd control and security costs" at a meeting he convened at a downtown Phoenix hotel on Nov. 30 with the president's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, several other Republican legislators and various people alleging wrongdoing during the election.

Lawmakers are required to disclose each business in which they have a position or a fiduciary relationship. In an email, the lawmaker did not address why the company is not listed on his most recent financial disclosure, which covered all of 2020.

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Read more: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2021/02/06/arizona-rep-mark-finchem-paid-by-trump-campaign-during-election-challenge/4413949001/



Finchem was also in DC on Jan. 6, near the Capitol, and he used a social media account to post a photo of the crowd on the Capitol steps with the caption, “What happens when the People feel they have been ignored, and Congress refuses to acknowledge rampant fraud.”

He claimed later he didn't know the Capitol had been breached when he posted that.

But he's refused a public records request by the newspaper to turn over his emails and text messages about what he did in DC that day.

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Trump campaign paid Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem $6,000 during effort to overturn election result (Original Post) highplainsdem Feb 2021 OP
This looks like fraud and bribery to me muriel_volestrangler Feb 2021 #1
What constantly amazes me is how cheaply people like him sell OnDoutside Feb 2021 #2
That stood out to me as well - Kitchari Feb 2021 #12
The idiot didn't just sell himself out for $6K, he sold the country out for $6K. He is a traitor & onetexan Feb 2021 #13
LOCK UP TRUMP AND THE ARIZONA CROOK trueblue2007 Feb 2021 #6
Yup. Def illegal if they didn't offer matching stories. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2021 #7
PAID bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #3
oops ....could be illegal...could not be illegal...?? Which is it? Stuart G Feb 2021 #4
These trump a-holes are all crooks. Period. JDC Feb 2021 #5
My, that sounds like a bribe! sakabatou Feb 2021 #8
Add that to the growing list of his crimes. BigmanPigman Feb 2021 #9
I'll bet the FBI gets those e-mails and text messages. patphil Feb 2021 #10
More and more graft and corruption gets exposed. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 #11
"No quid pro quo". Dolt 45. Just a friendly donation.... Evolve Dammit Feb 2021 #14

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
1. This looks like fraud and bribery to me
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 01:10 PM
Feb 2021

"Legal consulting" is not "crowd control and security", and paying a lawmaker in the middle of them voting on a concern of yours looks like bribery. And he failed to disclose the relationship.

OnDoutside

(19,972 posts)
2. What constantly amazes me is how cheaply people like him sell
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 01:33 PM
Feb 2021

Themselves out for. Even politicians getting political donations and then changing laws etc.

onetexan

(13,059 posts)
13. The idiot didn't just sell himself out for $6K, he sold the country out for $6K. He is a traitor &
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 08:42 PM
Feb 2021

should have his citizenship stripped & thrown into prison for insurrection.

Stuart G

(38,445 posts)
4. oops ....could be illegal...could not be illegal...?? Which is it?
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 01:58 PM
Feb 2021


It ain't up to me..
We will see
How stupid someone can be.

The courts will decide
He will take a ride
And then we will see
If prison is the key.

.................Well....I tried....

patphil

(6,208 posts)
10. I'll bet the FBI gets those e-mails and text messages.
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 06:56 PM
Feb 2021

This guy is in deep shit. I expect him to be indited in the near future.
Spreading the big lie is tantamount to inciting the insurrection.

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