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Trump had Bondi's victory party at his resort. Since when can a state attorney afford to rent a resort? Ummm! Never? This resort costs a lot more then a ballroom at a 5 star hotel. And then "Wow" wait for it the state attorney was given money to drop Trump's case for fraud. Cost of business or something that should be looked into by a independent investigator?
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)That's right, he charges his own campaign an inflated rate!
WhiteTara
(29,705 posts)He charged himself less!
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)He never charged himself in a true sense, he loaned the campaign money and he pays himself back from donation, charging interest no doubt.
Chiyo-chichi
(3,579 posts)"...apparently, Trump U. was such an astounding fraud that $25,000 did not justify Bondi dropping the investigation. Indeed, it required $125,000 in contributions to the Republican Party of Florida, and a separate fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago for Ms. Bondi. Whether or not all of this was, in fact, a bribe is for further investigation. But if what the Clintons have done does not smell too good to some, what Trump has done must really stink."
"The fundraiser in Mar-a-Lago also highlights another highly questionable aspect of Trump and his campaign. Apparently, when for Pam Bondi, Mar-a-Lago can be rented for $4,855.65. But when Donald Trumps campaign donors are paying for it, it can cost as much as $140,000. To be sure, different spaces and different square footage at a venue certainly reflect in the rent. However, that does not address the issue."
"It is one thing for a candidate to reimburse him or herself for the cost of a venue. It is a wholly different thing for that candidate to actually create profit centers so that he can profit from the money that donors give him. Trump is clearly doing the latter. And if what he has done in Mar-a-Lago does not seem obvious enough, one need go no farther than the Trump campaign headquarters, where the Trump campaign was paying $35,458 per month for rent while Trump was self-funding his campaign, but when he stopped self-funding, the very next month, the rent for his headquarters nearly quintupled to $169,758, even though it employed fewer staffers."
"While the Clintons have come under fire for alleged bad optics for a widely praised charity, that has received higher ratings than the American Red Cross, and which has helped millions of people worldwide, Trump has received relatively little attention for a pattern of operating which would be comical if it were not all too real. Virtually every place one looks with Trump wreaks of questionable conduct, buffoonery and lack of sophistication."
In all, just shy of $1 million went out the door on May 18. More than $600,000 of that went to Trump-owned businesses, with $423,000 of it going to Mar-a-Lago alone, which hosted that March 15 party, an earlier one on March 1 and a news conference on March 11.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-rnc-self-dealing_us_57cdcba0e4b078581f13b262?section=us_politics