Trump Inauguration Money Went to Trump Organization With Help From Ivanka, Report Says

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As if there wasn't enough swamp water to deal with...

When Trump’s inaugural team filed documents with the Federal Election Commission last year showing it managed to raise a record $107 million — nearly double the previous record set by President Barack Obama in 2009 — it prompted questions among critics and observers, mainly: Where did all that money go?

A new investigative report now suggests some of that money may have been funneled into the Trump Organization in coordination with the president’s eldest daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump.
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"The business of America is...business". We elected a businessman, to deal with the business of America. What else would you expect? He will follow the pattern of most elected to the government: He will enrich himself while in office.
 
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The Trump inaugural committee's fundraising was a mess from the start, but a new investigation could finally provide some answers
The first sign that Trump's inaugural fundraising committee was moving into uncharted political waters was the announcement, in late 2016, that it would accept unlimited corporate and personal contributions.


This was unprecedented for a newly elected president. Barack Obama's first inaugural committee in 2009 had prohibited corporate money and limited individual gifts to $50,000. George W. Bush's 2001 inaugural committee capped all contributions at $100,000. But not Trump.


The newly elected real estate mogul's new rules quickly had their intended effect, opening up a floodgate of money, some of which was very difficult to trace, that flowed from businesses, LLCs, trusts and individuals straight into the nonprofit committee's coffers.
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Prosecutors are also reportedly probing whether some of the listed donors to the inaugural fund were actually just fronts, or "straw men," for money that was really coming from foreign governments. Foreign nationals and governments are prohibited from donating to presidential inaugural funds, the same way they are prohibited from donating to U.S. political campaigns. The news reports did not identify any of the potential straw men by name.

But the first official report that the Trump inaugural committee filed with the Federal Election Commission in April 2017 was riddled with errors. But not just the typical errors one sees in federal campaign filings, such as a few misspelled donor names or incomplete information about donors.

Instead, the Trump inaugural committee's records contained hundreds of errors and mistakes, ranging from the accidental to the systemic to apparently covered up.
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Katherine Johnson was the name of a NASA mathematician who was featured in the biopic "Hidden Figures." So when committee staffers needed to fill in an address for a donor named Katherine Johnson who gave Trump $25,000, in order to comply with federal law, instead of finding the real address they wrote in the address of NASA headquarters.

When the Katherine Johnson from the movie, who was in her late 90s and had been retired from NASA for decades, was asked about her apparent "donation" to Trump's inauguration, her family said she had never made any such gift.

Only when the committee was confronted with their effort to fudge the record did a spokesperson admit that they made up the address, and that the Katherine Johnson who made the donation actually lived in California.

These were far from the only records that were misreported. Another reason scores of records were wrongly reported is that the Republican National Committee used a faulty system of ticketing, part of a broader effort to ensure that only Trump's actual supporters were permitted to buy tickets to the inaugural balls, and not protesters or spoilers.

The system handed out purchasing codes to Trump campaign donors and local GOP committees, which then distributed them. But the codes quickly made their way to Facebook, where they were swapped and purchased.

When a donor bought tickets to an inaugural ball, instead of registering their home address, as required by law, the Trump system registered the address associated with the code they used to buy the tickets.
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On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Inaugural Committee was under a federal criminal investigation for possible misuse of the some $107 million in spending.

In April, FBI agents raided Cohen’s office and hotel room looking for evidence in connection with a payment Cohen made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who said she had an sex with Trump in 2006.

During that raid, FBI agents found a recorded conversation between Cohen and inaugural planner Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who, according to the Journal, “expressed concern about how the inaugural committee was spending money.”
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"The business of America is...business". We elected a businessman, to deal with the business of America. What else would you expect? He will follow the pattern of most elected to the government: He will enrich himself while in office.

You're claiming other presidents siphoned off funds from the inauguration budget? Show us that.
 
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You're claiming other presidents siphoned off funds from the inauguration budget? Show us that.

I'm saying that it's customary for elected officials to enrich themselves while in office, regardless of the source.
 
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I'm saying that it's customary for elected officials to enrich themselves while in office, regardless of the source.

You don't think it's important how that money is obtained, whether it's by legal, legitimate means, or not?
 
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You don't think it's important how that money is obtained, whether it's by legal, legitimate means, or not?

At this point I don't think it matters. Prosecuting wrongdoing is more expensive than the wrongdoing.
 
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I don't agree, but that did make me LOL! :ahah:
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You don't agree with me? I'm shocked! :eek:

Try to get someone executed. ;)
 
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Apparently, there is now a criminal investigation of Ivanka Trump, who seems to have grossly overcharged the inauguration committee for rent of Trump properties, thereby enriching herself and her father.

The record includes a warning by a consultant that her actions would be public record. The consultant was concerned about excessive charges for use of Trump properties.
 
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Feds are looking at whether the donations were part of a “pay-for-play” scheme, to gain special access to the president.


In June of 2017, the Trump Inaugural Committee said it conducted a full audit of the festivities and found no wrongdoing. But so far has not provided any documents to back its claims.


Trump’s inaugural festivities were modest in comparison to Obama’s first inauguration, which cost less than half and featured some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, John Legend, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor and U2.


Obama drew 1.8 million people to the National Mall in 2009, according to estimates released by the District of Columbia. In contrast Trump’s inauguration attracted anywhere from 300,000 to 600,000 people on the Mall, according to Vox. While Trump had only three inaugural galas — two official inaugural balls, as well as the Salute to Our Armed Services Ball — Obama had 10.
Trump Inauguration Money Went to Trump Organization With Help From Ivanka, Report Says

From day 1, Trump was using his office to make money for himself. Yes, he lied about that, too.


 
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