Republican committees have paid nearly $1.3 million to Trump-owned entities this year

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy August 21 at 12:13 AM

The Republican National Committee paid the Trump International Hotel in Washington $122,000 last month after the party held a lavish fundraiser at the venue in June, the latest example of how GOP political committees are generating a steady income stream for President Trump’s private business, new Federal Election Commission records show.

At least 25 congressional campaigns, state parties and the Republican Governors Association have together spent more than $473,000 at Trump hotels or golf resorts this year, according to a Washington Post analysis of campaign finance filings. Trump’s companies collected an additional $793,000 from the RNC and the president’s campaign committee, some of which included payments for rent and legal consulting.

The nearly $1.3 million spent by Republican political committees at Trump entities in 2017 has helped boost his company at a time when business is falling off at some core properties. Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla., lost at least 10 of the 16 galas or dinner events it had been scheduled to host next winter in the wake of Trump’s controversial response to a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.

The market has been much more bullish for the president’s new hotel in Washington, which has emerged as the go-to venue for GOP power brokers and groups on the right. Trump International, whose room rates appear to be the most expensive in the city, generated nearly $2 million in profit in its first four months, as The Washington Post previously reported.

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[Bradical79]

1. To what end?

How does the party benefit from supplementing Trump's personal wealth?

[forgotmylogin]

2. As if there aren't other suitable meeting spaces in DC.

Fundraiser = Raise Funds of Trump

[IronLionZion]

6. A large number of idiots hold events and meetings at his shitty hotels and resorts

He also has a golf course and winery nearby. These people pay exorbitant prices that are twice or 3 times the costs of comparable other hotels in this area. His DC hotel has a reputation for being spectacularly shitty.

I don't know how the "fiscally conservative" Republicans would justify giving him so much of their money.

[keithbvadu2]

10. The "fiscally conservative" Republicans figure they are getting their money's worth - emoluments.

[Scarsdale]

3. Understandable why tRump

ran on the gop ticket. The Democratic voters want SMART people. The gop has none! Imagine if a democratic president carried on like tRump does? Impeachment would be front and center. They would all be on the Sunday morning bobble head shows, screaming their tiny empty heads off.

[turbinetree]

4. Oh boy racists meeting racists, and taxpayers are still footing the bill on that leased building in

DC, so racists can have a get together, and then he gallivants around to the other pieces of sh*t property

F**k him and his bunch of sh*t wipes racists

[AtheistCrusader]

5. That's actually WAY less graft than I was expecting.

[rickford66]

7. Bribery and brown noseing

[bearssoapbox]

8. Imagine, if President Obama's girls had set up a lemonade stand.

Anywhere.

If it made 25 cents in profit, the reTHUGliCONS would have tried to impeach him and put him in prison.

[Sunlei]

9. a lot more then that. I bet the secret service they ALL need pay another 50 million for their rooms

[Angry Dragon]

11. Trump even charges them for golf carts so they can protect him