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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sun Apr 16, 2017, 11:38 AM Apr 2017

Trump reelection campaign raised $13.2 million in first quarter. How are they spending it, you ask?



President Donald Trump’s 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 Pence’s 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 Trump’s 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 Manhattan’s Trump Tower.

In all, the three Trump committees combined to spend a total of $458,000 at Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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
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Trump reelection campaign raised $13.2 million in first quarter. How are they spending it, you ask? (Original Post) Miles Archer Apr 2017 OP
What will happen to the money when he ends up behind bars? Mr. Ected Apr 2017 #1

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
1. What will happen to the money when he ends up behind bars?
Sun Apr 16, 2017, 11:51 AM
Apr 2017

Pretty brazen act for a serial felon who has been quite hapless in covering his tracks.

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