Trump Campaign Paid Organizers of Pre-Riot Rally $2.7 Million

[sabra]

Source: Bloomberg

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign paid more than $2.7 million to individuals and firms that organized the Jan. 6 rally that led to violent rioters storming the U.S. Capitol, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The payments, which span Trump’s re-election campaign, show an ongoing financial relationship between the rally’s organizers and Trump’s political operation. They were all made through Nov. 23, the most recent date covered by Federal Election Commission filings, which is before the rally was publicly announced.

Eight paid Trump campaign officials were named on the permit issued on by the National Park Service for the rally, including Maggie Mulvaney, the niece of Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former chief of staff who resigned his position as special envoy to Northern Ireland after the riots. Maggie Mulvaney was paid $138,000 by the campaign through Nov. 23.

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The biggest recipient of campaign funds according to the report, was Event Strategies Inc., which was paid more than $1.7 million by Trump’s campaign and joint fundraising committee. The firm’s owners, Justin Caporale and Tim Unes, served as rally production manager and stage manager, respectively.



Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-22/trump-campaign-paid-organizers-of-pre-riot-rally-2-7-million?sref=PqmVp1JY

[blueinredohio]

1. Hope this is investigated.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[redstatebluegirl]

3. I still think the longer we wait to impeach the more things we will find that he has done.

[Delphinus]

4. I do hope

this is shown at the impeachment trial.

[Gothmog]

5. This will be fun to use in the impeachment

[WhiteTara]

6. treason isn't cheap.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Hey, it's great to know money can still buy a great insurrection when you need it

[Turbineguy]

8. Trump's greatest achievement as president

was to create a market place where you can buy and sell treason.

[Ford_Prefect]

9. I'll be happy if the federal indictments following this and other evidence

of prior planning and collusion by his campaign and other staff direct that he and they are accountable for the deaths and the coordination of the attack. Lots of empty cells at Club Fed. I hear USP Lompoc and FCI Otisville are quite accommodating the hardened white collar carreer types.

[SunSeeker]

10. K & R for exposure.

[flibbitygiblets]

11. Exhibit A in the impeachment trial!

[BarbD]

12. Follow the money.

Always a winning strategy.

[lagomorph777]

13. This should seal his fate.

[Drum]

14. Smoking. Gun. n/t

[Warpy]

16. Yep, this is all the impeachment managers should need to convict him

of plotting insurrection to stay in power. That will remove him from office and remove all the perks of a former president, especially security briefings (always a concern in his case) and set the stage for a criminal court to send him to prison.

[karynnj]

15. They were all made through November 23, the most recent date covered by the report

It will be interesting if there were more later payments that won't be routinely announced by the FEC until later. It would be interesting to know the dates of these payments.

[58Sunliner]

17. Well, well, well.

"The Trump campaign has repeatedly denied being directly involved in the organization of the rally.

According to the Associated Press, among those listed as organizers on official paperwork for the rally are former campaign staffers Megan Powers, Caroline Wren, Maggie Mulvaney, Justin Caporale, and Tim Unes.

Some of those former staffers scrambled to hide their connections to the rally after it took place, the AP added."

https://autos.yahoo.com/former-trump-campaign-staffers-helped-115237993.html

[ffr]

18. His Fakeness, beginning to end. It started with the paid actors from the beginning

But $2.7M to pay people into insurrection and sedition, just goes to show what a last ditch effort he was putting into staying in power.

It's also sweet irony that several Cult45s are sick right now of a disease they supported T---- doing nothing about. I know, that's sad to say, but I'm out of fucks to give. I'm tired of having to do things every day I might not otherwise have to do, precautions, simply because the babies in our society won't grow the fuck up and wear masks like the rest of us!

[poli-junkie]

19. Event Strategies, inc. was and/or is also owned by Paul Manafort

[tinrobot]

20. Through November 23rd. How much was given to them after that?

They were all made through Nov. 23, the most recent date covered by Federal Election Commission filings, which is before the rally was publicly announced.

And what about the people who paid for the bus rides? Were they doing it at the behest of the campaign?

[SWBTATTReg]

21. Follow the money, convene a Grand Jury, file charges, if convicted, jail time. People died.

Root out these despicable characters, no peace, no rest until justice is served, and a clear message is sent to the rest of Country that such abuses will not be ever tolerated.

[onetexan]

22. The Con couldn't get the military to carry out the coup so he got a buncha mobsters to help him

Hoping enough of the spineless GOP will nail this treasonous SOB so this will never happen again.

[Malmsy]

23. 18 U.S. Code § 2339C - Prohibitions against the financing of financing of terrorism

(a)Offenses.—

(1)In general.—Whoever, in a circumstance described in subsection (b), by any means, directly or indirectly, unlawfully and willfully provides or collects funds with the intention that such funds be used, or with the knowledge that such funds are to be used, in full or in part, in order to carry out—

(A)an act which constitutes an offense within the scope of a treaty specified in subsection (e)(7), as implemented by the United States, or

(B)any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act, shall be punished as prescribed in subsection (d)(1).

(2)Attempts and conspiracies.—

Whoever attempts or conspires to commit an offense under paragraph (1) shall be punished as prescribed in subsection (d)(1).

(3)Relationship to predicate act.—

For an act to constitute an offense set forth in this subsection, it shall not be necessary that the funds were actually used to carry out a predicate act.

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(c)Concealment.—Whoever—
(1)
(A)is in the United States; or

(B)is outside the United States and is a national of the United States or a legal entity organized under the laws of the United States (including any of its States, districts, commonwealths, territories, or possessions); and

(2)knowingly conceals or disguises the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of any material support or resources, or any funds or proceeds of such funds—

(A)knowing or intending that the support or resources are to be provided, or knowing that the support or resources were provided, in violation of section 2339B of this title; or

(B)knowing or intending that any such funds are to be provided or collected, or knowing that the funds were provided or collected, in violation of subsection (a),

shall be punished as prescribed in subsection (d)(2).
....................................

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339C?fbclid=IwAR20BddB2nD1Bmqf7kdTbG-alia2nQuw-8znpE5AuSurKhOCNttQ-cQc17Y

[alphafemale]

24. The check actually fu_king cleared?

He paid a bill?

I am gobsmacked.