Donald Trump caught stealing from his own campaign
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Via: tessylo • 4 years ago • 52 commentsBy: Robert Harrington, Palmer Report
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Donald Trump caught stealing from his own campaign
This is the man Donald Trump has recently rechristened “Corrupt Joe” Biden. (Apparently “Sleepy Joe” Biden won’t do any longer.) Naturally, Trump employs this deprecatory slander on the strength of no evidence whatsoever. At least you know you have arrived at the apex of moral integrity on the day Donald Trump questions your rectitude.
Whenever Trump has anything nasty to say about anyone it’s usually because Trump has just contrived an almost identical nastiness himself. In this case, Forbes has just revealed that Trump is funneling huge amounts of 2020 reelection capital from private donors into his own properties. It is another Trump orgy of recent self-dealing.
But it gets better. Another $2.3 million has gone into the president’s private business, according to a review of Federal Election Commission records. Well, it solves one mystery, anyway. Now I know what Trump has been doing lately when he wasn’t tweeting. He’s been stealing. That’s what the president of the United States does, he steals money from the American people with both hands.
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But it gets better. Another $2.3 million has gone into the president’s private business, according to a review of Federal Election Commission records. Well, it solves one mystery, anyway. Now I know what Trump has been doing lately when he wasn’t tweeting. He’s been stealing. That’s what the president of the United States does, he steals money from the American people with both hands.
"Other peoples money." DJT... OPM
OPP and OPM, DJT grossly grabs at both.
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Isn't that a blog?
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How about a report out of Forbes then Vic....
You going to call Forbes left leaning.....?
From the Forbes article:
"Trump’s private companies are continuing to charge the campaign for expenses like rent and consulting, according to the latest federal filings."
Is that really what you want to call "stealing from his own campaign?"
If that's what it is we should be hearing from the entire media with investigations galore and another "impeachment" proceeding coming from the House!
I've been saying it all along, he's been looting/raping/pillaging as fast as his fat little fingers will allow.
He's a conman, thug, grifter, gangster, thief, scum.
Color me not surprised. I expect it is much more...
Of course it is. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
I believe the word is treason.
And let's not forget that if this story was about evidence of Biden stealing from his campaign funds, funneling millions into his own pockets, conservative Republicans would be all over this comment board with proclamations of how this revelation has just sunk Joes prospects for the white house and the election is all over now and Democrats should start looking for another candidate before November. They would be condemning this kind of illicit fraud as the worst kind of theft and demanding Biden's arrest and prosecution. But because it's evidence that Trump is lining his own pockets with campaign cash all you hear from the conservative Republicans here is …"crickets"...
No, not treason. One can not be traitorous to something one never held in fealty.
Trump is a grifter and his base is--------------the bait for P.T. Barnum.
He does at times sound like a carnival barker. Selling some snake oil, a cure all to all the evil in the country.
And some eat it up.
He doesn't sound like a 'carnival barker'------he is a carnival barker.
Correction taken.
Well, then he can put Harry Truman's sign on his desk, since the bucks contributed by so many Americans go into his private enterprises. "THE BUCK STOPS HERE".
I have no sympathy what so ever for anyone who sends a known con man money. They deserve to get ripped off.
Dumb Donald only likes the bucks ending up in his pockets when defined as other peoples cash. He runs from any buck defined as: " responsibility — used especially in the phrases pass the buck and the buck stops here ".
The tRump campaign is now known/always been known to be the 'dine and dash crowd'
Please keep in mind, Donald Trump was not some big time CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He was just the owner of a family used car business writ a little larger.
In his mind - it's his money. He's just taking some out of the cash register on Friday night to go out to dinner. Now as President, every thing is his - his generals, his military, his economy ...
“It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious. ”
Trump doesn't want to drain the swamp. He wants to drain the treasury.
He already has.
Boom.
Most sane people heard the click click, beforehand.
As I posted somewhere else a few days ago.......
Someday, somewhere there is going to come out an accounting of the amount of taxpayer money that ended up in his businesses. Likewise there is going to be a similar accounting of political donations that ended up in personal Trump bank accounts. Maybe then, the current day Trump supporters will realize to the level they have been fleeced.
Joking aside, I'm not sure what's worse - oblivious Trump supporters or "Eyes Wide Open lovers scorned" former Trump supporters.
If the sleeper ever awakes, I think I would like to be on a 3 week cruise somewhere.
Sadly, when that day comes none of them will stand up and admit they were wrong. But I suppose we can't expect much from those with no spine. They will blame liberals and Democrats for "pushing them" to elect an arsonist to burn it all down. They will blame BLM and minorities and lgtbq Americans claiming their fight for equal rights was really a fight for 'extra' rights so they had no choice but to elect an inept corrupt bigot to the highest office in the land. Expecting them to admit their error even when faced by overwhelming evidence of corruption and malfeasance is like expecting an apology from the rabid dog that just bit you.
So multiple tabs in varying amounts had to be paid; and were paid for by credit card on site at the hotel whose credit card machine has a max amount limit?. Nothing illegal about paying your bills!
Source
So no matter what you want to think, it is indeed legal for him to pay his own businesses for providing a service to his campaign.
More straw grasping is all this is. Even the article I used to source these comments says this has been going on since 2015 before he ever got elected. Does anyone here really believe that the Democrats would be giving him a 5 year pass if what he is doing was even remotely illegal???
I'm sure you'd be singing the same tune if this was about millions in campaign cash going into Joe Biden's pocket. No doubt you'd proclaim that all was above board, nothing to see here, all that money was spent properly and would have been the same exact amount spent to other vendors if not Biden owned businesses, right? /s
I suppose it would be silly to expect anything but partisan hypocrisy coming from right wing conservatives determined to cover for this corrupt moron in the white house.
Actually I would be. I don't give two shits what party is breaking the Law. if I see it, I will call them out on it. If what they are doing is legal, then attack the Law that you feel is wrong. Or maybe you've missed the times I've singled out the Congressional Retirement Plan while the rest of us get stuck with Social Security? Not once have I attacked the retired Congresspeople, but the Law itself.
Sure you would!
Isn't that what I said?
You misunderstood. This is three days ago. Don't you have anything better to do?
Yes I do. Why do you think it took so long for me to respond to your snipe.
Just how has Mar A Largo contributed any services that needs to be repaid to this sham of a presidency?
They had week long retreats for donors hosted there. It's (the info) in the articles under discussion
How convenient!
Week long retreats for donors . . .
At the White Trash House Camp David.
Pfffft. . . .
Then let the donors pay. Trump should have used Camp David, but he won't use any site that he can't make money off of.
"Week long retreats" is just another code word for "happy endings". They pay, Donald plays.
Then there was the birthday party Don Jr. threw for girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle at Mar A Lago. According to this MSN article , campaign donors sponsored the event. However, a New York Times investigation revealed that the funds have yet to be reported as campaign donations, which is required by law. Also among the guests were White House staff, and representatives from foreign governments, so I'm sure taxpayer funds were involved. In addition, there was a plethora of guests who had no connection to Ms. Guilfoyle or anyone in the Trump family. One of the attendees at the birthday bash stated they’d never met the Trumps or Guilfoyle, but that he wanted “to have my name promoted” as a “sponsor” of the birthday party. source
Legalities aside...unethical abounds.
Really, where were you when Clinton and Obama were doing the exact same damn thing; except they actually used the White House to do it!
Clinton and Obama aren't even the first to do it.
You don't like what Trump is doing then call your Congress critter and get them to change the damn federal campaigning laws! Of course they never will do that; because one day they hope to find themselves in the same position as Trump; and take advantage of the exact same system.
Aww HELL NO!!!! Using a government facility like that for a campaign fundraiser of that magnitude has GOT to be illegal, and if not, it damn well oughta be!
There's nothing tRump can do that a supporter won't defend, NOTHING
It is truly sickening to us who have an IQ over 120.
Do you know anyone like that?
Do you?
I know it's hard to believe when you're surrounded by a bunch of room temp IQ Trump supporters, but the rest of us mingle with intelligent sane Americans who easily top 120 IQ. From reading Paula's comments I've no doubt she's up there in the mid 140's + like many progressives. Studies have shown a correlation between low IQ and being a racist conservative.
"Hodson and Busseri (2012) found in a correlational study that lower intelligence in childhood is predictive of greater racism in adulthood , with this effect being mediated (partially explained) through conservative ideology . They also found poor abstract reasoning skills were related to homophobic attitudes , mediated through authoritarianism and low levels of intergroup contact ."
“Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simple solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies.” (they're also far more attracted to simple answers to complex questions like "God did it" when they are asked any biology questions).
We often hear liberals state that conservatives are the "racist" of Americans, but words and actions of the left over the past years prove otherwise.
You even have a presidential candidate that has said more racist things than probably most other Americans and has shown support for several members of the KKK and supported segregation. Hillary Clinton has also backed a known KKK grand supreme, or whatever the left refers to your KKK leaders.
I also see that what you seeded is a blog, an opinion.An opinion written by, obviously, someone who does not see the left for what they really are, probably because that person probably does not see the probable racism in himself. Most on the left do this.
If you really want to see the racism of the left, all you have to do is watch what happens when an African American disavows the democratic plantation and shows that person has a mind of their own. Uncle Tom, sellout, etc, are just a few of the softer names thrown at them by the left.
Most Americans learned long, long ago that anything the left CLAIMS the right is guilty of racism, the left themselves SHOW they are the true racists. In most cases, it is white liberals who really show their racism.
There is no debunking this.
Projection, nothing but. All you got bugs.
Funny that you should link a source that cites the Campaign Legal Center, who just filed an 82 page complain with the FEC against the Trump campaign.
But hey, no worries CK. Trump and the GOP have conveniently avoided installing another commissioner to the FEC so they can have a quorum to actually do their job, keeping the FEC toothless.
The Trump has skated through bankruptcies, lawsuits, sexual payoffs, tax/insurance frauds and money laundering his whole life. Except now the apple he has bitten is going to bite back.