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Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle are each receiving $15,000 per month through the campaign managers private company, GOP sources said, to dodge FEC rules.
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trumps campaign is secretly paying one Trump sons wife and another ones girlfriend $180,000 a year each through the campaign managers private company, according to top Republicans with knowledge of the payments.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of eldest son Donald Trump Jr., and Lara Trump, wife of middle son Eric Trump, are each receiving $15,000 a month, according to two GOP sources who are informal White House advisers and who spoke on condition of anonymity.
They were unsure when the payments began but say they are being made by campaign manager Bradley Parscale through his company rather than directly by either the campaign or the party in order to avoid public reporting requirements.
I can pay them however I want to pay them, Parscale told HuffPost on Friday, but then declined to comment any further.
Critics of the arrangement, including Republicans, said the setup was designed to get around Federal Election Commission rules that require campaigns, political parties and other committees to disclose their spending in detail.
A lot of people close to Donald Trump are getting rich off of his campaign, said Paul Ryan, a campaign finance legal expert at the watchdog group Common Cause. They dont want donors to know that theyre getting rich. Because, at the end of the day, its donor money.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-secret-payments-sons-wife-girlfriend_n_5e9a1c46c5b635d25d6c747a
The skimming, graftm kickback, double-dealing and backroom-dealing never ends with these grifters.
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Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year EACH To His Sons' Significant Others (Original Post)
TheBlackAdder
Apr 2020
OP
Probably hush money to keep them from publicly saying how sexually inadequate the family is.
dem4decades
Apr 2020
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underpants
(182,844 posts)1. So....
Were now were just negotiating price?
ebbie15644
(1,215 posts)2. Hazard pay
dem4decades
(11,298 posts)3. Probably hush money to keep them from publicly saying how sexually inadequate the family is.
dalton99a
(81,534 posts)4. Continuing the family tradition of looting and thievery
mopinko
(70,145 posts)6. finding it hard to care about gop donors getting ripped off.
beside the fact that grifters grift everywhere, that is.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)7. Good. It's donor money, after all.
struggle4progress
(118,309 posts)8. Is it a campaign -- or is it The Don's family slush fund?