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riversedge

(70,253 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 04:45 AM Apr 2020

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 manager’s private company, GOP sources said, to dodge FEC rules.

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through the campaign manager’s 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 don’t want donors to know that they’re getting rich. Because, at the end of the day, it’s 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.
Carlo Allegri/Reuters


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Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons' Significant Others (Original Post) riversedge Apr 2020 OP
Kimberly looks like an escort in that photo. madaboutharry Apr 2020 #1
She actually is acting as an escort in that photo. CottonBear Apr 2020 #2
Everyone makes mistakes IronLionZion Apr 2020 #17
How was she turned to the Dark Side? Bayard Apr 2020 #22
She's cheap.... SergeStorms Apr 2020 #25
Do they leave MFM008 Apr 2020 #3
There is not enough money in the world for me to even be involved logosoco Apr 2020 #4
Corruption rockfordfile Apr 2020 #5
I wonder if the campaign Scarsdale Apr 2020 #6
Good question. Why pay child support out of pocket when the Trumpers donations can pay it for you? SummerSnow Apr 2020 #14
"I can pay them however I want to pay them," BlueStater Apr 2020 #7
Actually, both women are connected to the upcoming campaign. Totally Tunsie Apr 2020 #16
They could never pay me enough. SunSeeker Apr 2020 #8
The Criminal Mastermind Roy Rolling Apr 2020 #9
This says it all Roy Rolling Apr 2020 #10
Trump supporters love to brag... Trueblue Texan Apr 2020 #11
We have never seen one shred of documentation that Trump Mr.Bill Apr 2020 #24
And this figure is what we know about: LuckyLib Apr 2020 #26
Money for nothing and your chicks for free Botany Apr 2020 #12
Maleria will demand a raise Scarsdale Apr 2020 #13
Honestly, if anybody's earned it, she has. tanyev Apr 2020 #18
Well, as the saying goes Scarsdale Apr 2020 #21
Kick dalton99a Apr 2020 #15
Oh Lord, how would they be squealing if it was Sasha and Malia getting the money???? Firestorm49 Apr 2020 #19
Just plain old hookers, the men too! machoneman Apr 2020 #20
Being Donnie Jr's escort pays even better than being Daddy Trump's porn star. keithbvadu2 Apr 2020 #23
At least they are grifting off their own donors DeminPennswoods Apr 2020 #27

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
1. Kimberly looks like an escort in that photo.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 04:55 AM
Apr 2020

It floored me when I learned she was formerly married to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

CottonBear

(21,596 posts)
2. She actually is acting as an escort in that photo.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 05:55 AM
Apr 2020

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.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
25. She's cheap....
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 03:42 PM
Apr 2020

$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.

logosoco

(3,208 posts)
4. There is not enough money in the world for me to even be involved
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 06:02 AM
Apr 2020

with that family on a personal level, much less being married into it.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
6. I wonder if the campaign
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 06:05 AM
Apr 2020

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.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
7. "I can pay them however I want to pay them,"
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 06:39 AM
Apr 2020

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)
16. Actually, both women are connected to the upcoming campaign.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 09:25 AM
Apr 2020

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.

Lara Trump, 37, was a campaign “surrogate,” making appearances and conducting media interviews on behalf of her father-in-law, in the 2016 campaign and continues to participate in “Women for Trump” events as a 2020 campaign “senior adviser.” In early 2017, Parscale confirmed he had hired her to work for his company, which was, in turn, continuing to work for Trump’s campaign.

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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Roy Rolling

(6,924 posts)
9. The Criminal Mastermind
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 07:28 AM
Apr 2020

Pascal’s a rascal.

But among the Trump family, he’s a king.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Roy Rolling

(6,924 posts)
10. This says it all
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 07:33 AM
Apr 2020

“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 don’t want donors to know that they’re getting rich. Because, at the end of the day, it’s donor money.”

Stuart Stevens, a top aide to 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign, was even more blunt: “That’s why Parscale has the job. He’s a money launderer, not a campaign manager.”

Trueblue Texan

(2,432 posts)
11. Trump supporters love to brag...
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 07:51 AM
Apr 2020

...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.

LuckyLib

(6,819 posts)
26. And this figure is what we know about:
Sun Apr 19, 2020, 01:59 AM
Apr 2020

"In all, Parscale’s firms ― Giles-Parscale and Parscale Strategy LLC ― have been paid $38.9 million by Trump’s 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.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
13. Maleria will demand a raise
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:09 AM
Apr 2020

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?

keithbvadu2

(36,835 posts)
23. Being Donnie Jr's escort pays even better than being Daddy Trump's porn star.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 12:35 PM
Apr 2020

Being Donnie Jr's escort pays even better than being Daddy Trump's porn star.

Substitute wives.

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