Donald and Ivanka Trump Were Involved in Inauguration's Inflated Payments to Family Business

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Then-President-elect Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka were warned in 2016 that the family business was overcharging the nonprofit presidential inaugural committee — and let it happen anyway, according to a suit filed Wednesday by the Washington, D.C., attorney general.

In the civil complaint, Attorney General Karl Racine charged the Trump inaugural committee and the Trump Organization with using around $1 million of charitable funds to improperly enrich the Trump family.

An experienced event planner who was working for the inaugural, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, raised concerns directly with Donald and Ivanka Trump that the Trump International Hotel in Washington was trying to overcharge the inaugural committee.

“Winston Wolkoff met with President-elect Trump and Ivanka Trump and discussed these concerns with both individuals,” the suit says. “The President-elect acknowledged these concerns and directed that Ivanka Trump would handle this issue.”

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1. Of COURSE,

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R for exposure.

[Newest Reality]

3. It puts the...

It puts the emoluments on its skin. How come it doesn't get the hose again?

Don't ya' just love paying taxes so grifters can soak it up while they decimate every benefit to people in need that they can? Well, let's get some people off of SNAP, that's the problem, they say, while reaching in for handful of cash from our nation's coffers.

Cons and charlatans can really get away with a lot in our system these days. It's almost like anything goes, take what you want. Would you like the silverware and napkins, too?

We have a problem, Houston. Pillaging that is this obvious is coddling and enabling the people who take advantage of anyone and anything they can. The biggest thieves are floating around at the top of the current septic tank, (it's not a swamp) and getting a nice, free ride on our backs. WOW!

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4. This is why I wish they'd added a third article for violation of

the emoluments clause. Not that it would matter to the TrumpHumpers in the Senate any more than the other two articles do, but I'm thinking that the airing of such blatant corruption and individual greed might have a real effect on voters in November. Not my call, though.

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5. elect a grifter, you get a grifter.