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Trump Living Large On Donors’ Dime
The GOP nominee’s campaign is spending lavishly on Trump businesses instead of cheaper alternatives.
09/06/2016 09:19 am ET | Updated 6 hours ago
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S.V. Date Senior Political Correspondent, The Huffington Post
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Donald Trump chats with Ben Carson at the Mar-a-Lago Club in March. The GOP nominee has spent his campaign’s money on his own properties rather than cheaper alternatives nearby.




WASHINGTON – On the night of this spring’s Florida primary, the pastor giving the invocation at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago victory party prayed: “Lord, give Mr. Trump the power to rise above the GOP establishment.”

Turns out the prayer worked. Not only did Trump win the Republican presidential nomination, but two months later, on May 18, Trump signed a deal with the Republican National Committee giving him access to a top-notch fundraising operation after not having had one at all through the primaries.

That same day, Trump’s campaign, now set to receive tens of millions of dollars of other people’s money, finally sent five- and six-figure checks to Trump’s properties for events that had happened months earlier. Meaning that the GOP establishment had not only been defeated, it was now actually paying for that March 15 victory party attended primarily by members of Trump’s Palm Beach country club.
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........RNC Donor Money Meant A Windfall For Trump Businesses

It is the new prominence of donors’ money that casts Trump’s campaign spending in a radically different light since the signing of that joint fundraising agreement in May. Even as Trump has skimped on traditional expenses like campaign staff or advertising, he has spent campaign money lavishly on his own businesses...................