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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 11:37 AM Sep 2016

Trump Living Large On Donors’ Dime

Any way you slice it, this level of self-dealing looks bad. It looks like a candidate who is pocketing donors’ money.

“It doesn’t look right, even if it is legal,” said Paul S. Ryan from the Campaign Legal Center watchdog group. He called Trump’s heavy spending on his own properties “unprecedented” and said the timing of the payments is curious. “Any way you slice it, this level of self-dealing looks bad,” he said. “It looks like a candidate who is pocketing donors’ money.”

Increased scrutiny of Trump’s spending patterns could not come at a worse time for the developer-turned-reality-TV-star-turned-presidential nominee. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has announced that she and her party raised $143 million in the month of August, a figure that could dwarf the amount pulled in by Trump and the RNC.

Both anti-Trump Republicans and RNC members supporting Trump said most GOP donors probably don’t know the details about how Trump’s campaign is spending their money.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-rnc-self-dealing_us_57cdcba0e4b078581f13b262
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unblock

(52,273 posts)
2. "trump’s fondness for returning to his manhattan penthouse every night..."
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 11:58 AM
Sep 2016

seriously? expense aside, how ridiculously impractical and inefficient!

does he have a medical problem that he doesn't want hotel staff to find out about and leak to the media?

mopinko

(70,151 posts)
4. cant get that face and hair together w/o his keepers.
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 12:54 PM
Sep 2016

and doesnt want the secrets to get out.

but yeah, i dont think the man is well. i do think he has alzheimers, but even if it isnt that, he looks like hell.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
3. a billion in republican donations will buy him a new jet, 'best seller book' & get his real estate..
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 12:19 PM
Sep 2016

out of bankruptcy. A flim-flam man is the best Republican, lol.

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