NYTimes Editorial: Mr. Trumps For-Profit 2020 Campaign

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Mr. Trump’s For-Profit Campaign

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/opinion/trump-campaign-financing-2020.html

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD JUNE 30, 2017



President Trump hosted a $10 million re-election fund-raiser at his own hotel in Washington on Wednesday. It may have been a first in recent presidential history: an event that lined a chief executive’s campaign coffers and his pockets at the same time.

The $35,000-per-person event also suggested that Mr. Trump plans to run his second campaign much like his first, as an opportunity to not only further his political ambitions, but also to make a bit on the side.
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Protesters outside the Trump International Hotel on Wednesday. Credit Carlos Barria/Reuters

The Trump International Hotel confirmed on Thursday that it charged the Republican National Committee, which organized the dinner, “regular prices” for catering and space, proceeds that flow to the hotel, much like the $14 million in campaign contributions Mr. Trump used to reimburse his companies for airplane flights, office space, food, wine, even water.

The Trump Organization isn’t known for comping anyone anything: It has even charged Eric Trump’s children’s cancer foundation fees associated with hosting the foundation’s charity golf tournaments over the years, money that otherwise might have gone to the St. Jude pediatric cancer center.........................................

[procon]

1. Grifter. Trump is nothing more than a sleazy conman with cufflinks. nt

[Nitram]

2. puke