Trump Still Profiting From Campaign Funds: Report
Donald Trump is literally paying himself with campaign funds from donors.
The corruption of Donald Trump seems to know no ends. According to a new report by Huff Post, Donald Trump’s reelection campaign (that’s right, re-election) has paid Trump $274,000 for rent in Trump Tower for the first three months of the year.
This spurs several obvious questions. First, why the hell does Trump need a re-election campaign three months into his presidency and almost four years before the next election? Second, why does that re-election campaign need to rent office space from Trump Tower?
As HuffPost points out, “The total paid to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, in fact, is only a few thousand dollars more than the salaries of all 20 employees in that period, combined. That includes the $15,538 in salary to Brad Parscale, based in San Antonio, Texas, who received more than $1.5 million in that time period for digital campaign work.”
Trump filed re-election paperwork on the same day he was inaugurated, earlier than any president, ever. By contrast, President Obama opened his re-election committee a year and a half before the 2012 election.
And that is not all Trump paid himself. “In the first three months of this year, for example, the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York received $1,936 from the campaign. His hotel in Washington received $4,401, his hotel in Las Vegas received $13,928, and his restaurants received $8,707. Even Trump’s bottled water company, Trump ICE LLC, was paid $1,768,” HuffPost noted.
