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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStormy Daniels bailout? Trump campaign transferred $130K to Trump business 1 month after election
The Stormy Daniels bailout? Trump campaign transferred $130K to Trump business one month after electionBRAD REED
23 JAN 2018 AT 11:55 ET
id President Donald Trumps campaign reimburse one of the presidents businesses for the cost of paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels?
Thats a question thats now being asked by the government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which has flagged a Trump campaign reimbursement filing that sent $130,888.33 in campaign funds to a limited liability corporation called Trump Tower Commercial. The filing claims that the Trump campaign was reimbursing the LLC for rent, although it does not describe exactly what properties were rented out for campaign use.
According to the Wall Street Journals reporting, longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen set up a separate LLC called Essential Consultants in October 2016 that he used as a vehicle to pay off Daniels in exchange for remaining silence about her past affair with the president, which occurred shortly after his wife Melania had given birth to their son, Barron Trump.
Given that the payment made from the Trump campaign to Trump Tower Commercial LLC was for roughly the same amount that Essential Consultants LLC paid to Daniels and given the fact that the payout occurred just one month after the 2016 presidential election ended this transaction is sure to raise questions over whether campaign funds were used to cover the costs of paying off a porn star.
Check out the filing posted by CREW below.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/stormy-daniels-bailout-trump-campaign-transferred-130k-trump-business-one-month-election/
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Stormy Daniels bailout? Trump campaign transferred $130K to Trump business 1 month after election (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2018
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Gothmog
(145,624 posts)1. This is a violation of the law
madaboutharry
(40,224 posts)2. One day it is all going to become public knowledge.
Trump is a mobster. Nothing should surprise us.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)3. Is it too early to say, "Lock Him Up"?
rickford66
(5,528 posts)4. Of course he used other people's money.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)5. If President Obama
Even absently mindedly looked at a woman's legs while thinking about important world issues, the right and evangelicals would have called for President Obama's removal from office. The way that Trump is being treated shows clearly that the right and evangelicals don't care one hoot about morals and decency.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)6. He wouldn't pay her in advance for her silence.
I'm sure the deal was: "keep your mouth shut until I win and THEN I'll pay you."
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)7. This is priceless!
I can't believe the fucking morons actually used campaign funds.
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)8. That is a pretty big deal.