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Trump Has Now Moved $2.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business (Wallstreet anti Trump Alert)
Forbes ^ | Aug 25, 2020 | Dan Alexander

Posted on 11/21/2020 6:02:03 AM PST by KeyLargo

Dan Alexander Forbes Staff Billionaires Senior editor at Forbes, covering Donald Trump's business.

Donald Trump continued to shift money from his donors to his business last month, as his reelection campaign paid his private companies for rent, food, lodging and other expenses, according to a review of the latest Federal Election Commission filings. The richest president in American history, who has yet to donate to his 2020 campaign, has now moved $2.3 million of contributions from other people into his private companies.

The most recent expenses look familiar. The president accepted $38,000 in rent last month through Trump Tower Commercial LLC, the entity that owns his Fifth Avenue skyscraper. Since Trump took office, his campaign has paid that company $1.5 million, more than any other property in the Trump empire, according to an analysis of federal filings. The Republican National Committee also coordinated with the campaign to pay Trump Tower Commercial LLC an additional $225,000.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bankers; democrats; mediabias; wallstreet
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The article is from August, but is getting social media attention now.

Wall Street hates Donald Trump. They favor the Democrats. Their editor is a Liberal -. Dan Alexander is a senior editor at Forbes, where he leads the magazine's coverage of Donald Trump.

1 posted on 11/21/2020 6:02:03 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Previously filed in the deep state file.


2 posted on 11/21/2020 6:05:52 AM PST by eeriegeno
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To: KeyLargo

Is Donald paying market rates or lower? If so, what is wrong about using family properties or services for campaign purposes?

I wouldn’t expect Republicans had to rent or use services of Democrats, if they didn’t want to do so.

I would use services and properties of people I would trust.


3 posted on 11/21/2020 6:08:53 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: eeriegeno

Wall Street was Never Trump from the beginning of his campaign.

February 23, 2016
The Wall Street Journal’s War on Donald Trump

Critics of the Republican frontrunner have hit hard and often.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-wall-street-journals-war-donald-trump-15283


4 posted on 11/21/2020 6:08:58 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Planting seeds to attack Trump after he leaves office so he can’t run again.


5 posted on 11/21/2020 6:09:11 AM PST by Skywise
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...his reelection campaign paid his private companies for rent, food, lodging and other expenses...

Sounds normal and above board to me.

6 posted on 11/21/2020 6:09:14 AM PST by newfreep (The Communist/DNC VOTER FRAUD is Trump's ONLY opponent in 2020 election.)
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To: KeyLargo

Did Donald play fair in the neighborhood sandbox when he was five years old?


7 posted on 11/21/2020 6:09:21 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: KeyLargo

-—— and you posted this rot from the social media garbage dump,why?


8 posted on 11/21/2020 6:09:31 AM PST by SanchoP ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." )
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To: KeyLargo

Forbes was bought by a group of foreign investors that are very China friendly.


9 posted on 11/21/2020 6:10:23 AM PST by trublu
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To: KeyLargo

WHAT? I heard he’s been prowling around Ft Knox recently too.


10 posted on 11/21/2020 6:11:00 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: KeyLargo

Trump owns properties, what’s he supposed to use Holiday Inn instead of his own very nice properties that usually are where he needs to be anyhow? No other grafter presidents were privately successful so they have nothing to use. Lack of common sense from a writer not associated with the real world. Trump supporters are real working people and understand this.


11 posted on 11/21/2020 6:11:00 AM PST by pangaea6
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Probably by far the best place for Trump to assure security—and of course that rent payment would be going somewhere.

Sure, in the best of all worlds even the appearance of impropriety...


12 posted on 11/21/2020 6:11:10 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Skywise

Unlike the previous “regimes”, PDJT will NOT be left unscathed when he leaves office in 2025.


13 posted on 11/21/2020 6:12:36 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: KeyLargo

Well when he ran, did he not loan his campaign money from his personal account? If so, then he is repaying the loan(s), and there is nothing wrong with that, to my understanding.


14 posted on 11/21/2020 6:16:31 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: newfreep
Not only is it normal and above board ... it’s probably required by law.

If these entities didn’t collect rent and cover other expenses the way they did, they’d almost certainly be considered in-kind campaign contributions.

15 posted on 11/21/2020 6:16:57 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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Trump lost a fortune being President. The idea that he’s trying to skim 2.3m is stupid. Trump happens to be the only one in Washington who isn’t in it for the money.


16 posted on 11/21/2020 6:17:24 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: KeyLargo

Are these payments for services rendered? If so, say so!!!


17 posted on 11/21/2020 6:17:29 AM PST by elpadre
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To: wiseprince

Trump lost a fortune being President. The idea that he’s trying to skim 2.3m is stupid. Trump happens to be the only one in Washington who isn’t in it for the money.

Yes


18 posted on 11/21/2020 6:25:47 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: rktman

And just now from Donald Trump:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
28m
Big voter fraud information coming out concerning Georgia. Stay tuned!


19 posted on 11/21/2020 6:27:45 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Prayers up. And up for what lies ahead regardless of the outcome.


20 posted on 11/21/2020 6:29:30 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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