Where the money goes
Remember kids – most of the money goes right into Trump’s pocket.
As President Donald Trump seeks to discredit last week’s election with baseless claims of voter fraud, his team has bombarded his supporters with requests for money to help pay for legal challenges to the results: “The Left will try to STEAL this election!” reads one text.
But any small-dollar donations from Trump’s grassroots donors won’t be going to legal expenses at all, according to a Reuters review of the legal language in the solicitations.
A donor would have to give more than $8,000 before any money goes to the “recount account” established to finance election challenges, including recounts and lawsuits over alleged improprieties, the fundraising disclosures show.
Where does it go when it’s under 8 grand?
A large portion of the money goes to “Save America,” a Trump leadership PAC, or political action committee, set up on Monday, and the Republican National Committee (RNC). Under Federal Election Commission rules, both groups have broad leeway in how they can use the funds.
In other words it goes to a slush fund for Trump.
Leadership PACs such as Save America are often set up by prominent political figures to spend money on other candidates, while also paying for personal expenses, such as travel and hotel stays.
And we know Trump. He’ll be using it to pay for all his personal expenses.
Scrolling down the page would take a donor to the fine print, which shows that donations are split between “Save America,” which gets 60% of the money, and the RNC, which gets the other 40%. None of the money flows to Trump’s official “recount” committee fund until Trump’s Save America share reaches the legal contribution limit of $5,000, according to the disclosures.
That means that, before a dollar goes into the recount fund, Save America would receive $5,000 and the RNC around $3,300. Donations to the recount committee are legally limited to $2,800.
In short they’re promoting it for one thing but using it for another. This was already reported but I for one didn’t know that none of the money goes to the purported goal unless the donation is more than 8k.
Darrell Scott, an Ohio pastor who helped found the National Diversity Coalition for Trump and served on the president’s 2016 transition team, says he sees no problems with diverting the money to the leadership PAC or the RNC.
“I see this as two pockets on the same pair of pants. It doesn’t matter if it goes into the left or the right pocket,” Scott said. “In the end, the money will be used for a legitimate purpose that his supporters will get behind.”
The loose morals of the clergy; it’s a sad thing to see.
Well, only those expenses he can’t get the taxpayer to pay. We already pay a huge amount of his personal expenses. He has grifted us for four years; he is losing his grift opportunity, so now he will continue to grift his supporters.
I could actually see a scenario where he announces a run in 2024, collects oodles of money, but doesn’t really do much but line his pockets…oh, and have rallies, of course, but he’ll persuade the RNC or someone to pay for those.
That’s why he doesn’t want to lose the presidency. It’s been a huge money machine for him. Not only does he not have to pay for his own hamberders or golf trips, he gets the additional perk of world leaders paying huge sums to stay in his hotels to make points. We all know that, of course, but for some reason, his supporters can’t see it. They are being milked; we are being milked, all of the taxpayers.
I’ll bet that it’s even worse than just paying for his personal expenses. I’ll bet that those “travel expenses” will involve trips on the Trump Org plane (once Air Force One is no longer available to him) and rooms and meals at Mar-A-Lago for him and his hangers-on. All at inflated prices.
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Yep. Heather Cox Richardson pointed out that he was the first president ever to file for reëlection on the day he was inaugurated, and that’s how he used the money he raised.
Well that’s what I said – He’ll be using it to pay for all his personal expenses. Emphasis in the original.
Isn’t this what Bannon got picked up for doing, raising money to build The Wall (nudge nudge, wink wink)? Only he probably didn’t have the legal brainpower on tap to set it up so he could do it without being arrested. Four Seasons Total Landscaping territory.
Reverend Scott. Let me extend your pants analogy a little further. The money being raised isn’t going stay in either pocket. Trump is going to use the money personally, very personally, right after he’s done sitting on his golden toilet, and then he’s going to flush it away.
I’m sure that’s “a legitimate purpose his supporters can get behind,” ammarite?
Right, I guess I just meant that he’s pulling profit on top of that. But then, Trump owes so much that any cash he pulls in has to go to debt service, so I guess with him all expenses in the end.
And speaking of Darrell Scott, I’m just gonna leave a link to Libby Anne here: [url]https://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2020/11/grifters-gonna-grift.html[/url]
Hmm, I tried to post a link to Libby Anne’s blog about Darrell Scott, but it didn’t take. Anyway, Libby Anne has a bit more in-depth post on Darrell.
It was diverted to spam for some reason.
Ah, okay. I recall it happening to me before, but only with [url] tag.