Trump Campaign Spent Nearly Half a Million on Fireworks

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-trump-campaign-spent-nearly-half-a-million-on-convention-fireworks

The Trump campaign finds itself in an unexpected financial crunch heading into the election’s homestretch: substantially behind Joe Biden in the cash it has on hand despite years of advanced preparation. If the president is looking to cast blame, however, the receipts suggest that it starts with himself.

During the month of August, the Trump campaign spent nearly half-a-million dollars on fireworks, almost certainly for the display that was put on over the south lawn of the White House during the Republican convention. That display was indisputably ostentatious—a seemingly never ending stream of lights that culminated in the words “Trump” and “2020” bedazzling the sky above the Washington Monument. But the price tag—$477,000—made the company behind the show, Grucci Inc., the campaign’s ninth largest vendor of the entire month. The campaign paid more to the Long Island fireworks company in August than it spent on legal bills for its top firm, Jones Day, or its top pollster, Fabrizio Lee & Associates. It was well more than half of the $762,826.08 the campaign spent on its entire payroll.

Considering how much the Trump campaign brought in during August—$61,750,338—the fireworks expense may seem like a drop in the bucket. But Trump is badly trailing Biden in terms of money in the bank. The president and the Republican National Committee currently have $325 million cash on hand, compared to the $466 million Biden and the Democratic National Committee enjoy.

With the map of battleground states i expanding, that means that dollars must be spent wisely. And buried in the Trump campaign’s latest FEC report are other expenditures that suggest the president’s personal proclivities—from over-the-top displays of grandeur to his incessant feuds with the media—are having a literal cost.

The Trump campaign did not respond to questions about its August financial report.

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[Me.]

1. Looks LIke The Lawyers Are Going To Be Stiffed

[Takket]

2. They have $325 million on hand?

Last week everyone was saying they were broke and drumpf had to dump in $100 million of his own money.

[C_U_L8R]

3. And they don't have one more vote to show for it.

What chumps.

[dutch777]

4. More fireworks, more lawyers fees...more anything that doesn't get them a vote!

I feel slightly better knowing they are mismanaging their campaign nearly as badly as they have mismanaged the Covid response. Sad days when that makes one feel good.