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| Hey, they stopped paying my legal fees. What more do you want? |
Soon after the Republican National Committee came under pressure for paying legal bills for President Donald Trump and his eldest son in the special counsel's Russia probe, it started covering expenses for the president's re-election campaign.
The RNC is using campaign funds to pay Trump's company more than $37,000 a month in rent, and to pay thousands of dollars in monthly salary to Vice President Mike Pence's nephew, John Pence, party officials confirmed this week. The rent pays for office space in the Trump Tower in New York for the staff of Trump's re-election campaign. John Pence is the Trump campaign's deputy executive director.
Campaign finance experts who spoke to CNBC said this type of spending by a party committee on behalf of a campaign is highly unusual but legal, and it appears the RNC disclosed it correctly.
"This is permissible and it's being reported properly, but why they are doing it is a mystery," said Brendan Fischer, senior counsel for the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. "One would think the RNC could be spending their money more effectively right now on the 2018 campaign, rather than spending it to pay Trump's rent."
So far, the party has spent more than $290,000 to cover the Trump campaign's expenses since September, the first month it paid the Trump Tower rent or Pence's salary. Before then, both expenses had been paid directly by the Trump campaign.
So the RNC stopped paying Trump's legal fees, and then just suddenly started paying the Trump campaign's rent at a Trump property?
Wow! What a coinky dink!
My favorite part of all this is that in Trump world this seems to be considered super sneaky and virtually undetectable.
I suddenly have the feeling that Robert Mueller is having very little difficulty building a money laundering case against Donald Trump and his minions.
The money has to funnel somewhere. People to pay.
ReplyDeletePlaces to go. Plans to engage.
The terrifying thing about the Mueller probe is how intrinsically deep the corruption dwells. I fear Trump’s base is just as corrupt and believes money laundering or tax evasion is the norm. Many times people have worked for me and ask if I will pay them under the table. I am surprised they think they are above the law but we who are issued a W-2 every year are just idiots in their minds. Trump and his ilk are just an exaggerated example of this thinking.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/24/adam-schiff-opens-can-demolishes-trump-twitter.html
Delete"The Democratic memo contains FBI intelligence that Carter Page was talking to the Russians about providing the Trump campaign with their dirt on Hillary Clinton."
" The Dem memo also offers key details on how the Trump campaign and Russia hooked up.
Trump better get to change his no collusion tweets to no impeachment because the FACTS are moving"
"he Democrats' 10-page memo calls an earlier Republican version "a transparent effort to undermine" the FBI, the Justice Department, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and congressional probes into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.""
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/24/democrats-memo-charges-republicans-trying-undermine-russia-probes.html
I can't believe he isnt in NJ golfing today.
ReplyDeleteThe NRA Convention Needs to Be Careful It Doesn’t Become CPAC with Guns
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nationalreview.com/2015/04/nra-convention-needs-be-careful-it-doesnt-become-cpac-guns/
The Biggest Lie Those Gun Nuts Tell Themselves
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/hey-kevin-williamson-while-were-subject
An Epidemic of Dishonesty on the Right
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/parkland-shooting-hoax-latest-right-dishonesty-epidemic/
EJ Dionne: Trump And The GOP Won't Act On Gun Control, So We Must
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/ej-dionne-trump-and-gop-wont-act-gun
Is There Any Future For A GOP That Won't Control Guns? Not Likely
The fact is, demographics are not on the side of the Republican party.
..."The party is changing dramatically," Dean said. "Forty-five percent of millennials are people of color. In kindergarten last year is the first year in our country where there were more kids of color than white kids. Our party is dramatically changing. Whether we like it or not, they will not put up craziness from the NRA.
"They are not going to do it," he predicted.
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/gop-strategist-tries-change-subject-gun
This gives me hope for the future of our country, especially after seeing the intelligent, well-spoken kids from Parkland. They were able to organize a group of young adults and I firmly believe they won't give up until they see the results they want, no matter how long it takes. They will hold the GOP's feet to the fire!
DeleteTrump has been monetizing the presidency since day one, whether he's violating the emoluments clause or charging the SecretService exorbitant rates to rent space in Trump Tower, to use his golf carts so they can protect his fact ass, etc. He's determined to make money on the office but the GOP was insistent that Hillary Clinton had to shut down the Clinton Foundation that didn't make money for her personally but for the needy throughout the world. GOP hypocrisy at it's finest, we have to remember IOKIYAR.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that was at Trump's "suggestion." Pay or you don't get to play. They have to bribe him to keep him in line and this is the only legal way they can.
ReplyDeleteAlso shows Pence is no choirboy either when it comes to quid pro quo and bribery.
As long as the money comes from the RNC,let trump bankrupt them,less money for local canidates.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to see how much of the money started out as rubles,does the rnc get s special money laundering exchange rate?
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/trump-rambles-judge-jeanine-memo-nothing/
ReplyDelete"rump said he’d like to to “celebrate” his increased military spending “probably” on veteran’s day. July 4 would also be good, he said, with the parade running up AND down Pennsylvania Avenue.
“We’ll have a tremendous, updated, top-of-the-line—there will be nothing like it,”"
?G. does FEEDJIT Live Traffic Feed still show who is 'online live'?
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