Trump campaign doubles spending, not ground game
Source: Seattle Times
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign expenses more than doubled last month, even as the Republican presidential nominee held his payroll to about 70 employees, aired zero television advertisements and undertook no significant operational buildout across the country.
Instead, about half of the campaign’s $18.5 million in spending was vacuumed up by Giles-Parscale, a web design and marketing firm new to national politics, Federal Election Commission filings show. It’s a crossover vendor from Trump’s real estate organization.
The campaign paid Giles-Parscale $8.4 million in July, about twice what the San Antonio firm had collected from it over the course of the preceding year. Brad Parscale, the president, is the campaign’s director of digital marketing.
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illions more went to air travel. The campaign paid about $2 million for private jets other than Trump’s own TAG Air, which also collected $500,000. Some of Trump’s consultants are also mysteriously well-paid.
Read more: http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/trump-campaign-doubles-spending-not-ground-game/
Trump is spending more...on companies affilialiated with him. Perhaps Trump will actually make money on his campaign raising money, then paying it to companies and people connected to him.
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