Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons' Significant Others
Source: huff post
POLITICS 04/17/2020 06:20 pm ET
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.............................
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Lara Trump, left, and Kimberly Guilfoyle at a Feb. 3 news conference in Des Moines set up by the reelection campaign.
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madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)It floored me when I learned she was formerly married to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)He had an affair with her while he was married with at least 4 kids.
I cannot wrap my head around her and Governor Newsom being a married couple. She is a former Faux News employee.
IronLionZion
(45,466 posts)Newsom had his own cheating scandal a few years back
Bayard
(22,110 posts)I guess by being offered 180K a year.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)$180,000 for an entire year of suffering with 'Junior'? Stormy Daniels got $130,000 for just one "event" with Mr. Mushroom. That makes Guilfoyle a very cheap hustler.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)The money on the dresser
Or a check with maggots signature?.....
logosoco
(3,208 posts)with that family on a personal level, much less being married into it.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)is paying Jr.'s child support for his 5 kids? Who is surprised at this? The tRump's males have a penchant for women who need to be paid at the end of each evening, more if overnight. Just like dear old dad.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Then why are you doing it secretly, you shitbag?
Neither one of them are part of the campaign. Not that anything will be done about this (as usual), but this can not possibly be legal.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Apparently, this is what Chump's henchmen use to justify the payments. I seem to recall reading way back when Sarah Three Names was gripping the podium that $180,000/year is the minimum salary paid out in Chump's regime.
Guilfoyle, 51, has been accompanying Donald Trump Jr. to campaign events since they began dating two years ago. She had been a Fox News personality until she left the network in 2018. In January 2020, she was named chair of Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee used to solicit and distribute money to the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee.
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SunSeeker
(51,578 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,924 posts)Pascals a rascal.
But among the Trump family, hes a king.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Roy Rolling
(6,924 posts)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.
Stuart Stevens, a top aide to 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romneys campaign, was even more blunt: Thats why Parscale has the job. Hes a money launderer, not a campaign manager.
Trueblue Texan
(2,432 posts)...that Trump doesn't even take his salary. Why does he need that fifty-cent salary when his campaign, funded by MAGA chumps, will cover all his AND his family's expenses.
Mr.Bill
(24,305 posts)donates his salary to charity,
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)"In all, Parscales firms ― Giles-Parscale and Parscale Strategy LLC ― have been paid $38.9 million by Trumps campaign, the RNC, joint fundraising committees and a pro-Trump super PAC between the day Trump took office through February 2020, according to the latest filings available."
Gigantic money laundering plan -- and this is one small piece.
Botany
(70,524 posts)How is this not against the law?
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)when she reads this. After all, she has to pretend to be "in love" with the big orange postule in the WH. Seeing how happy SHE looks I doubt if the cash is worth it, to tolerate his insanity. EVERYTHING comes down to cold hard cash with the tRump crime family. Beavis Jr. seems to be developing daddy's pot belly. His shirt looks a little tight, doesn't it?
tanyev
(42,578 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)"Marry for money and you will EARN every penny"
dalton99a
(81,534 posts)Firestorm49
(4,035 posts)machoneman
(4,007 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,835 posts)Being Donnie Jr's escort pays even better than being Daddy Trump's porn star.
Substitute wives.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)nt