Why is the Trump campaign funneling money to Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle?

[Chosen Daughter]

Why is the Trump campaign funneling money to Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle?
by Brad Polumbo
 | October 31, 2019 04:27 PM

President Trump promised to “Drain the Swamp”of corruption during his history-making run for the Oval Office. Little did we know he planned to replace it with a presidential campaign working to enrich his family members.

At least, this shady behavior is alleged by new reporting from the University of Florida student newspaper The Alligator. The paper reports that Trump campaign official Caroline Wren directly emailed the university’s student body president and requested that he bring Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Republican National Committee official Tommy Hicks to campus for a paid speaking opportunity. The emails coordinating this event have been posted publicly, and it appears Wren signed off in her official capacity as national finance consultant for the Trump campaign.

The students obliged, and Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle hosted a well-attended campus event on Oct. 10. There’s nothing wrong with this, of course, as it’s good to have diverse campus speakers, and they’re both prominent pro-Trump voices whose perspectives are worth hearing. If student groups want to host them, they should.
However, in this case, Trump Jr. received $50,000 in speaking fees funded by student tuition per The Alligator. That is not something the president's reelection campaign ought to be facilitating. The Washington Post’s Radley Balko took a critical tone to the whole affair, deploring that “Trump Jr. got $50K in mandatory student dues to come campaign for his dad.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-is-the-trump-campaign-funneling-money-to-donald-trump-jr-and-kimberly-guilfoyle

[MajorClay]

He is on a book tour.

[aligncare]

He is on a book tour.

You me to say book authors can get a speaking fee?  Sounds shady to me. 

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Why is the Trump campaign funneling money to Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle?

He knows the GOP will defend it.

[Chosen Daughter]

You me to say book authors can get a speaking fee?  Sounds shady to me. 

He's writing a book?  Does he have any experience doing that?

[jmyrlefuller]

At least, this shady behavior is alleged by new reporting from the University of Florida student newspaper The Alligator.

OK, first of all, really, a college newspaper? One step above a blog. If that.

Second of all, this is hardly earth-shattering corruption. It's been a long-established practice for politicians to slip their friends and family onto the campaign expense report as the "campaign treasurer" or things like that. Let's not act like Trump originated this. Sketchy yes, but hardly unprecedented.

[mountaineer]

He's writing a book?  Does he have any experience doing that?

I don't know, but seems to me the best - and only - experience for writing a book is writing a book. Same with anything.

[GtHawk]

OK, first of all, really, a college newspaper? One step above a blog. If that.

Second of all, this is hardly earth-shattering corruption. It's been a long-established practice for politicians to slip their friends and family onto the campaign expense report as the "campaign treasurer" or things like that. Let's not act like Trump originated this. Sketchy yes, but hardly unprecedented.

But....but....... TRUUUMP!   

[libertybele]

OK, first of all, really, a college newspaper? One step above a blog. If that.

Second of all, this is hardly earth-shattering corruption. It's been a long-established practice for politicians to slip their friends and family onto the campaign expense report as the "campaign treasurer" or things like that. Let's not act like Trump originated this. Sketchy yes, but hardly unprecedented.

Exactly.  I think you'd be very hard pressed to find a college that wasn't heavily geared toward liberalism.