Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, December 18, 2020

Trump's 2020 Campaign Was a Monumental Grift

About a half of the money raised was funnelled off by Kusher and the Trump family:

Jared Kushner approved the creation of a shell company that operated like a “campaign within a campaign” and secretly funneled millions of dollars in campaign cash to Trump family members, Business Insider reports. The company, American Made Media Consultants Corporation and American Made Media Consultants LLC, took more than half of the Trump campaign’s massive $1.26 billion war chest and was largely shielded from having to publicly report financial details. However, a source told Business Insider that Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump was the company’s president, Vice President Mike Pence’s nephew was its VP, and Trump campaign CFO Sean Dollman was treasurer and secretary.

More here and here.

That explains the reports that the Trump campaign couldn't afford to match Biden's spending late in the campaign. Funnelling money through a shell corporation to skim off cash is an old Trump family trick,

Trump and his family have played their donors for suckers.

Toljaso.

6 comments:

B said...

Nerly every candidate has a company that does the media buys and other stuff like that for the campaign.

Barry did it, Bush did it, most failed candidates did it (both sides). Senators and Congrescritters do it too. I do not know it Joe did it this year, but I would not be surprised.

As a rule, the rake-off is over 7%

This isn't new.
And it is not, at least, influence peddling like Hunter....

Comrade Misfit said...

I will confess that I am going to enjoy watching your symptoms of Biden Derangement Syndrome manifest themselves. Especially when Trump's kids trotted around the globe, using their dad's prestige to arrange deals, and you said not a word. All of their grifting and you were fine with it.

Trump supporters have zero, I repeat, zero grounds to call anyone else corrupt.

Dark Avenger said...

B, reality called, it said to remind you it exists.

dinthebeast said...

7%<50%

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Ten Bears said...

What's with the Barry/Bush bullshit, b? Can you be anymore blatant?

w3ski said...

tRump doesn't seem to know how to make money. All of his business adventures have failed or are failing as we speak. What the "man" (and I use that term very loosely with him) seems to know how to do best is to skim money off of a functioning business. He wants to be a gangster, a form of parasite, but they at least knew enough to let the business make enough to stay open. He is ignorant of that concept, he just figures a new business to rob is around the next corner.
He is profoundly greedy and ignorant at the same time. The US is just another failed business to him, on to bigger and more lucrative grift.
He sure did clean out the treasury on his way through.
w3ski