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lostnfound

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Thu Sep 8, 2016, 08:49 AM Sep 2016

CBS News segment about how Trump makes money on campaign

Campaign spending on his own businesses has climbed to over $1 M per month. He still has supposedly put more money into the campaign than he has taken out of it, but the accounting on that probably leaves a lot of room for cheating. And we all know Donald is good at that.

He may become "the first candidate in history to make money off his campaign". This doesn't surprise ME, but hopefully some of his supporters will wake up and see they are being scammed.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-businesses-profit-off-presidential-campaign-money/

Throughout the campaign, he’s paid his own aviation company $5.6 million to fly his multiple planes like his luxury 757.
He also spent more than $423,000 to rent out his private Mar-a-Lago club. And in July, Trump’s campaign paid $48,239 to rent the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County. By comparison, holding an event for thousands of people at the nearby Westchester County Center costs about $10,000.

On rent, the campaign has spent over $830,000 for office space at Trump Tower. In July, it paid over $169,000, up 133 percent from May. Trump officials reportedly said they expanded into more office space in anticipation of additional staff.

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