Republican committees have paid nearly $1.3 million to Trump-owned entities this year
Source: The Washington Post
By Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy August 21 at 12:13 AM
The Republican National Committee paid the Trump International Hotel in Washington $122,000 last month after the party held a lavish fundraiser at the venue in June, the latest example of how GOP political committees are generating a steady income stream for President Trumps private business, new Federal Election Commission records show.
At least 25 congressional campaigns, state parties and the Republican Governors Association have together spent more than $473,000 at Trump hotels or golf resorts this year, according to a Washington Post analysis of campaign finance filings. Trumps companies collected an additional $793,000 from the RNC and the presidents campaign committee, some of which included payments for rent and legal consulting.
The nearly $1.3 million spent by Republican political committees at Trump entities in 2017 has helped boost his company at a time when business is falling off at some core properties. Mar-a-Lago, Trumps private club in Palm Beach, Fla., lost at least 10 of the 16 galas or dinner events it had been scheduled to host next winter in the wake of Trumps controversial response to a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.
The market has been much more bullish for the presidents new hotel in Washington, which has emerged as the go-to venue for GOP power brokers and groups on the right. Trump International, whose room rates appear to be the most expensive in the city, generated nearly $2 million in profit in its first four months, as The Washington Post previously reported.
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Bradical79
(4,490 posts)How does the party benefit from supplementing Trump's personal wealth?
forgotmylogin
(7,529 posts)Fundraiser = Raise Funds of Trump
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)He also has a golf course and winery nearby. These people pay exorbitant prices that are twice or 3 times the costs of comparable other hotels in this area. His DC hotel has a reputation for being spectacularly shitty.
I don't know how the "fiscally conservative" Republicans would justify giving him so much of their money.
keithbvadu2
(36,819 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)ran on the gop ticket. The Democratic voters want SMART people. The gop has none! Imagine if a democratic president carried on like tRump does? Impeachment would be front and center. They would all be on the Sunday morning bobble head shows, screaming their tiny empty heads off.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)DC, so racists can have a get together, and then he gallivants around to the other pieces of sh*t property
F**k him and his bunch of sh*t wipes racists
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)rickford66
(5,524 posts)bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)Anywhere.
If it made 25 cents in profit, the reTHUGliCONS would have tried to impeach him and put him in prison.