Trump Pays His Own Businesses $3 Million In Days Surrounding Election

[workinclasszero]

Trump Pays His Own Businesses $3 Million In Days Surrounding Election
In all, Trump’s campaign funneled more than $12 million to entities he controls.
12/09/2016 01:11 am ET S.V. Date Senior Political Correspondent, The Huffington Post

WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump’s presidential campaign sent Donald Trump’s businesses $2.9 million in the final days prior to and the weeks following his election.

Trump’s Miami golf club, where he staged an Oct. 25 news conference to showcase his employees who like him, received $13,015. Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas received $176,933 for lodgings from his presidential campaign and $60,442 more from a joint fundraising committee for Trump and the Republican National Committee.

Trump Tower in Manhattan, meanwhile, received a whopping $462,011 in rent, including $283,500 on Nov. 28 – nearly $114,000 more than the campaign had been paying for its headquarters space for the previous several months.

The president-elect’s transition team did not respond to a Huffington Post query regarding the higher rent payment.

The figures are contained in new filings Thursday night by the campaign and related committees with the Federal Election Commission. The filings cover the six weeks from Oct. 20 to Nov. 28

The burst of spending brings to more than $12 million the total Trump has funneled back to his businesses since the start of the campaign. It continues his pattern of choosing to spend donors’ money at his own properties for events and on his own airplane for travel, even though it meant spending considerably more than comparable alternatives.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-businesses-campaign-fec_us_584a32f6e4b04c8e2baf31e6

[LisaM]

1. Why can't these stories get traction?

Last edited Fri Dec 9, 2016, 01:52 PM - Edit history (1)

Some of this was out there before but didn't, for example, come up at debates ( at least the so-called moderators didn't bring it up). Yet the microscopic scrutiny of the Clinton Foundation was relentless.

[workinclasszero]

2. And don't forget the all important emails

These stories don't get traction because the mainstream news media chooses to not report on them incessantly like they did with the Clinton foundation and Hillary's damn emails.

I'll leave it to you to figure out why they ignore the many crimes that Trump has already committed before assuming office.

His damned administration will undoubtedly be the most corrupt in the entire history of the United States with the news media granting him cover all the way.

[spanone]

3. the u.s. treasury will be his slush fund.