Donald Trump’s Entities, Family Rank High as Vendors to Campaign

GOP presidential candidate’s airline, hotels, family members and allies listed in FEC report as receiving election spending

By REBECCA BALLHAUS

Updated Oct. 28, 2016 6:01 p.m. ET

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s list of highest-paid campaign vendors is brimming with his own name.

An airline he owns has drawn the fifth-largest paycheck of any company the campaign paid through Oct. 19. Mr. Trump has also paid at least eight of his golf clubs, seven of his hotels and five of his restaurants.

In all, the New York businessman has spent close to $10 million over the course of the election cycle reimbursing his children for travel expenses and family-owned companies for campaign services, the most recent Federal Election Commission reports show.

Only four companies have been paid more than the set of Trump entities: Two of his media buyers, who have collectively been paid $59 million; a firm owned by his digital director, which has been paid $58 million; and the firm that makes his campaign hats, which has been paid $14 million.

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