Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Might be just as well. They look pretty silly sitting on the floor from the still shots I saw on Twitter.

 

(courtesy AP)

"The biggest payment to a Trump company is $4.6 million to TAG Air, the holding company of his airplanes.

His campaign headquarters is at Trump Tower in New York. The campaign has paid about $520,000 in rent and utilities to Trump Tower Commercial LLC and to Trump Corporation.

For events, he often uses his own properties. The campaign paid out $26,000 in January to rent a facility at Trump National Doral, his golf course in Miami. He'd held an event in the gold-accented ballroom there in late October. The campaign spent another $11,000 on Trump's hotel in Chicago.

Even refreshments have a Trump tie.

About $5,000 from the campaign went to Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC, which offers Virginia wines bearing the bold letters of Trump.

Son Eric Trump also factors into another large Trump campaign expense.

The campaign has paid about $4.7 million for hats and T-shirts purchased from Ace Specialties. That company is owned by a board member of Eric Trump's charitable foundation."

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If this is how his campaign is run....

Contemplate for a moment...

What government by Trump might look like.

Kickbacks? Cronyism? Favors? Payments?

 

Trump is taking the money out of politics and putting it in his pocket.

 

First thought: Sounds like the mob.
Second thought: Sounds like typical politician - just more brazen.

 

I guaran-freaking-tee you if he loses this election, he'll brag that he made a lot of money doing it.

 

It looks kind of bad, but is there any indication that Trump is paying over fair market value for any of this? He has an infrastructure in place that he can take advantage of. Why would he employ third parties when he doesn't have to? Can it be, in fact, that he's actually getting his campaign a discount by utilizing his own infrastructure?

 

Wow. Not sure how I feel about this. DW makes a good point, but I have trouble giving him that much credit.

 

I doubt it's illegal, but if he's charging fair market value he's still making money off the campaign at a time when he's not raising any money. It's a bad look.

 

The AP article pointed out that Forbes and Bloomberg make it a point NOT to do this.

They kept their businesses walled off from their campaigns.

 

It's tacky at the very least. Forbes and Bloomberg are wildly rich guys with plenty of issues, but they aren't tacky.

 

Serious question .... is there a part of campaign finance law that requires him to pay for that stuff, even if he's paying himself?
For example, the $26,000 to rent out Doral. Is that over some threshold for gifts or donations to where money has to change hands, even if it's being shuffled around between different pockets?

 

It's Trump. What else would it be?