Trump’s campaign channeled nearly $400,000 to his private business in 2 days

President Donald Trump’s campaign sent nearly $400,000 to his private business in just two days, The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold reported Friday.

• Fahrenthold said documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president’s personal business in 43 transactions.
• The Trump Organization told Fahrenthold the money was for a weeklong “donor retreatat Mar-a-Lago in March.
• Open Secrets, a Washington organization that closely tracks money in politics, first spotted the payments in Federal Election Commission filings from the Trump Victory Committee. President Donald Trump’s campaign sent nearly $400,000 to his private business in just two days, The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold reported on Friday.

Documents showed that the campaign channeled $380,000 to the president’s personal business in 43 transactions, Fahrenthold said, adding that the Trump Organization told him the money was for a weeklong “donor retreatat Mar-a-Lago in March.

Open Secrets, an arm of the Center for Responsive Politics that closely tracks money in politics, first spotted the payments in Federal Election Commission filings from the Trump Victory Committee, a joint fundraising committee between Trump and the Republican National Committee.

David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) July 17, 2020

charged the Secret Service exorbitant rates

to protect the president when he travels to his properties.

The Post reported in December 2018

that shortly after the election, Saudi-funded lobbyists spent more than $270,000 to rent rooms for about 500 nights at the Trump International Hotel in Washington.

has spent more than $2 million

at Trump Organization hotels and resorts. And Trump’s campaign, which is funded in part by donations from the president’s supporters and big-dollar donors,

has spent more than $14 million

at his properties.

Politico reported

that members of the US Air Force had stayed at Trump’s five-star Turnberry resort in Scotland as part of an unusual layover on a routine trip from the US to Kuwait to deliver supplies.

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