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Trump is living large on other people's money, as Donald Trump is taking millions of dollars that are supposed to be used to build his presidential campaign and instead giving it to his own companies....http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/23/trump-pocketed-8-million-dollars-donor-money-running-president.html
Who does he think he is, Hillary?
The answer is that a healthy sum of it is going into Trump’s own companies. The Trump campaign still hasn’t released proof that Trump converted the $52 million that he loaned his campaign to donations, so it is likely that donors won’t know the true extent of Trump’s potential grifting until after the presidential election ends.Republicans who give their money to Donald Trump in good faith may be getting ripped off, as millions of dollars are finding their way into the Republican nominee’s pocket.
That is chump change for a con man the stature of P. T. Trump.
Trump nearly quintupled the monthly rent his presidential campaign pays for its headquarters at Trump Tower to $169,758 in July, when he was raising funds from donors, compared with March, when he was self-funding his campaign, according to a Huffington Post review of Federal Election Commission filings. The rent jumped even though he was paying fewer staff in July than he did in March. The Trump campaign paid Trump Tower Commercial LLC $35,458 in March ― the same amount it had been paying since last summer ― and had 197 paid employees and consultants. In July, it paid 172 employees and consultants.
The FEC filings show that Trump began increasing the rent at Trump Tower starting with the May 31 payment of $72,800. The Trump campaign paid $110,684 in rent on June 9, and $169,758 on July 10.The campaign’s number of paid employees and consultants went from 166 in May, to 139 in June, to 172 in July. How many of those actually worked in Trump Tower cannot be determined from the FEC filings, although typically only a small fraction of a presidential campaign’s staff works in the headquarters building. Last autumn, only about a dozen of the campaign’s several dozen paid employees worked in Manhattan.
For many months, Trump’s campaign prided itself on its low-rent operation. It invited reporters in to tour its headquarters on the fifth floor of Trump Tower that had once been used as production offices for “The Apprentice” TV show, which starred Trump. Photos and video from those tours show work space with unfinished ceilings, makeshift drywall partitions, and only a few campaign workers.
Here is the HP article. (Yea – I know - the source - but it does have some interesting details).http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-campaign-rent_us_57bba424e4b03d51368a82b9
