Trump campaign paid Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem $6,000 during effort to overturn election result
Source: Arizona Republic
Former President Donald Trumps 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 lawmakers 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.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)"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)Themselves out for. Even politicians getting political donations and then changing laws etc.
Kitchari
(2,168 posts)$6,000
onetexan
(13,059 posts)should have his citizenship stripped & thrown into prison for insurrection.
trueblue2007
(17,238 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,289 posts)agency. Don't need to go further than that.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)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....
JDC
(10,133 posts)sakabatou
(42,174 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)Throw him in jail and fine him until he is a pauper.
patphil
(6,208 posts)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.