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Trump raises rent on own Campaign HQ from $35,000 to 170,000 using Campaign Donations
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shadowsdarknes
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Why stop at 170k? Maybe once he realizes he's definitely going to lose, he can jack it up to 500k.
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How the fuck?!
bangbang i'm a timpani
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ehhh its not like the Clinton's aren't writing a ton of stuff off on the clinton foundation....
Slurpy2k20
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People like you are so tiresome. You wave something off and pretend it's no big deal, because something-something might be happening on the other side, then you make some vague assumptions with false equivalency. I guess to be expected from a Trump cheerleader, which you've shown yourself to be.
Aaronrules380
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Well, Trump needs to pay back the loans he used to "self-fund" his primary campaign
Aaronology
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I'd ask you to substantiate this remark, but you don't exactly have a great history of being objective or informed.
Veritigo_X
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This is hilarious. The best part is he's just wasting Republican donor money that could've made an actual impact in a close house or senate race. Now it's just lining Trump's pockets. Couldn't ask for a better situation if I wrote it myself.
Hey, it's both sides guy.
Hey, it's both sides guy.
maximum360
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fixedpoint
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Source?
PHOENIXZERO
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Crooked Donald.
shinra-bansho
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If nothing has changed substantially then either he was undercharging before or overcharging now, or both I guess. Which I would have thought would warrant questions from the FEC.
Was the HBO stint when he was conservative or just Dennis Miller? I seriously can't recall this at all. And shit, he WAS in the Net.
Regardless, I stand by my belief he presented himself as conservative purely for the easy access to republican viewership rather than having to fight with how many other celebrities for the moderate/liberal markets.
thechristoph
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I can hear the attack ad.
"Trump. Already putting your money in his pockets."
"Trump. Already putting your money in his pockets."
Walter White Walker
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Staff goes down, rent goes up. You can't explain that.
Their gut feeling. It's always their gut feeling.
BobTheFork
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Use 'Already Putin your money in his pocket' and it's gold.
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The Autumn Wind
You're looking at it backwards. He's not giving "himself" a discount; he's charging the campaign 5x more than what he was before, meaning his business is pocketing all that money.
Trump: The rent just got higher!
SuperBowser
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I assume this is legal in some roundabout sense.
At least he is effectively stealing money from republicans stupid enough to support him.
At least he is effectively stealing money from republicans stupid enough to support him.
You're not allowed to charge yourself less or more than you would anyone else. He should be pocketing money. Thats the whole point of what we were saying, he is probably now charging what he was supposed to be. Which still begs the question what kind of discount loophole he was using to not pay as much as he is now
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The Autumn Wind
You actually think that office space costs $170k a month to rent? I wish you were my tenant.
It does not say that it costs $170k/month. It could be a payment for back rent or future rent, for example.
I think you may be right.
tedrotheredro
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The rent on my office is $141,000 per month. It's one upper level floor of a building near Times Square. Not super fancy, our floor needs a renovation,, but a good amount of space and amazing views. So the price isn't that absurd.
Not trying to defend Trump or anything, but the rent probably isn't that unreasonable if it's a lot of space in his tower.
Not trying to defend Trump or anything, but the rent probably isn't that unreasonable if it's a lot of space in his tower.
Randolph Freelander
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Given that the Clinton campaign is paying more than $200K per month for office space in Brooklyn, yes.
The Huffington Post article omits the critical detail of how much space the Trump campaign is using. Without that, it's hard to say if he is overcharging his campaign now or was undercharging his campaign previously. Either one could be an issue for the FEC, certainly, but what we don't know is if he's extracting an enormous profit for himself in this particular instance.
It was cheaper when Trump was footing the bill. Now that donors opened up their pockets, the rent suddenly increased exponentially. That is what this is about.
Well i mean. do you have any idea how big a general election campaign operation is?
Anyways I'm merely pointing out the facts, im against trump too, but what I said is still true, and no, the fact that it's 170k is not unbelievable
Hahaha, theres the Trump we know. The businessman. He is not even in office and he's trying to make millions from just running for president picking the pockets of Americans. Always thinking of himself. Wonder how those gloating about donating after the RNC feel now, you're hard earned money went into Scrooge McDuck's pocket book. Yet it was looking pulling teeth to get him to finally buy some ads in swing states.
The (pay)wall just got higher!
Clinton seems to be renting around $30 a square foot which seems below market rate.
CloudyTuba
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His campaign has been on a downhill course recently. His mouth diarrhea only took him so far and now it's having diminishing returns. He needs more kindle for his dwindling fire.
Instead of tending to that fire he's just making his usual potshots on twitter and funneling money to himself.
Let's dispel with this fiction that Trump doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing.
User 463088
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The most eye raising thing about this is that his staff decreased from March until July. That's not how this works. But, then again, I don't think Trump knows how this works anyway.
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