Jr $100,000 speech sponsored by GOP donors company
Matea Gold
September 1 at 4:02 PM
... In July, Trump Jr. signed a contract with the University of North Texas agreeing to give a half-hour speech and participate in a 30-minute question-and-answer session in October in exchange for a $100,000 stipend, according to documents first obtained by the North Texas Daily, the student newspaper. The university provided a copy of the contract to The Washington Post.
Trump Jr. was invited by organizers of the UNT Kuehne Speaker Series, whose top sponsor this year is a corporate tax services firm headed by G. Brint Ryan, a UNT alum and well-connected GOP donor in Dallas who advised President Trump on tax policy during the campaign.
In an interview, Ryan said that the series is paid for by private donations, not public funds, adding that Trump Jr.’s appearance will help raise money for National Merit Scholarships for UNT students.
“I don’t think we’ve paid that much before,” Ryan said of Trump Jr.’s stipend. But he said he did not have any qualms about the amount, noting that the series hopes to draw as many as 2,000 paying guests to hear the president’s son on Oct. 24 at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Tx. — the home of the Dallas Cowboys ...
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