Trump reelection campaign raised $13.2 million in first quarter. How are they spending it, you ask?
President Donald Trumps reelection campaign is off to a quick start, pulling in $13.2 million through a trio of committees in the first three months of the year, while paying an unusually large staff of about 20 employees, according to records filed Friday evening with the Federal Election Commission.
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Others on the reelection campaign payroll include
Vice President Mike Pences 27-year-old nephew John Pence, who is serving as deputy executive director for the campaign and was paid $40,000 in the first quarter. Michael Glassner, who was among the longest-serving officials on Trumps 2016 campaign, was paid $77,000 in the first three months of this year to oversee the reelection operation, which is being run out of an office in Manhattans Trump Tower.
In all, the three Trump committees combined to spend a total of $458,000 at Trumps various companies, including $274,000 in rent for the Trump Tower office space and $61,000 at Trump golf clubs.
Some Trump insiders or their companies continued to draw payments from Trumps campaign committee even as they were at work inside the White House, according to the FEC filings.
Bannon Strategic Advisers a firm run by White House chief strategist Steve Bannon received $28,000 on Jan. 25 for administrative assistant/secretarial ser(vices), while Scavino and Associates associated with White House social media director Dan Scavino was paid $14,500 on Feb. 13 for strategy consulting.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/trumps-reelection-campaign-raised-132-million-in-first-quarter-237250