David Choi, provided by Published 7:34 pm PST, Monday, February 4, 2019 White House/Shealah Craighead President Donald Trump's inaugural committee, which has been under scrutiny by federal prosecutors, was reportedly ordered to hand in documents relating to its finances. Investigators are believed to be looking into the tickets for the event, photo sessions with Trump, and the event's vendors. Trump's inauguration in 2017 raised eyebrows after it drew in more than $100 million in donations, $1.5 million of which was reportedly spent on the Trump International Hotel. President Donald Trump's inaugural committee, which has been under scrutiny by federal prosecutors, was reportedly ordered to hand in documents relating to its finances, two people with knowledge of the investigation said in a New York Times report published Monday. An attorney for the committee reportedly received a subpoena on Monday that sought information about its donors and attendees for the … [Read more...] about Federal prosecutors reportedly slapped Trump’s inaugural committee with subpoena
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Trump: Payments to silence women were a ‘simple private transaction,’ not illegal campaign contributions
John Wagner, The Washington Post Published 5:01 am PST, Monday, December 10, 2018 In morning tweets,President Donald Trump sought to counter assertions in a court filing Friday that he had directed his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to try to silence the women in a bid to influence the 2016 presidential election. less In morning tweets,President Donald Trump sought to counter assertions in a court filing Friday that he had directed his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to try to silence the women in a bid to ... more Photo: Alex Brandon, STF / Associated Press Photo: Alex Brandon, STF / Associated Press Image 1 of / 38 Caption Close Image 1 of 38 In morning tweets,President Donald Trump sought to counter assertions in a court filing Friday that he had directed his … [Read more...] about Trump: Payments to silence women were a ‘simple private transaction,’ not illegal campaign contributions
Donald Trump: Michael Cohen Payoffs to Women a ‘Private Transaction’ Not Campaign Contribution
President Donald Trump defended hush money payments from private lawyer Michael Cohen to women on Monday, despite prosecutors claiming they were illegal campaign contributions. “Now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution which it was not,” he wrote.Cohen pled guilty to arranging deals for Playboy model Karen McDougal and porn star Stormy Daniels to silence their claims that they had an affair with Trump before he was president. Cohen claimed that he did so at Trump’s direction. Trump suggested Cohen was lying in order to get his prison sentence reduced, and that it was Cohen’s fault if there was a mistake. “Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me,” Trump wrote. “Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!” Trump suggested that prosecutors were focusing on the payments because they found no evidence of collusion with Russia to win the presidential election. … [Read more...] about Donald Trump: Michael Cohen Payoffs to Women a ‘Private Transaction’ Not Campaign Contribution
Trump to donor’s wife with Presidential Medal of Freedom
Darlene Superville, Associated Press Updated 4:10 am PST, Friday, November 16, 2018 FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2016, file photo, former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani, kisses Miriam Adelson's hand as he arrives for the presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Miriam Adelson is a doctor, philanthropist and humanitarian, but is perhaps best known as the wife of Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas casino magnate considered one of the most powerful Republican donors in the United States. She gets to add a new title Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, when President Donald Trump honors her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. less FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2016, file photo, former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani, kisses Miriam Adelson's hand as he arrives for the presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican ... more Photo: … [Read more...] about Trump to donor’s wife with Presidential Medal of Freedom
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CHICAGO — To get a taste for the kind of campaign a record-shattering $171.5 million can buy, consider just one night in early October when billionaire J.B. Pritzker and Gov. Bruce Rauner squared off at a local television studio in the highest-profile debate of the race. A few blocks away, a full-force messaging machine was lying in wait.Story Continued Below Inside Pritzker’s spacious campaign headquarters in downtown Chicago, 14 people crowded around a long conference room table, hanging on every word coming off the live TV event, waiting to pounce. “Pensions!” Galia Slayen, the Pritzker communications director and the night’s traffic cop, called out. “Go!” With that, the machine whirred into action. One staffer pushed out an email with pension talking points to reporters across the state. Twitter accounts for Pritzker and staffers activated, drawing from a cache of 700 statements prewritten for social media, all printed across an Excel … [Read more...] about The Best Campaign Money Can Buy