Everything is used as a fundraising tactic.Yeah, but note Camille's post he is using this DOJ scandal as a campaign fund raising tactic!
Everything is used as a fundraising tactic.Yeah, but note Camille's post he is using this DOJ scandal as a campaign fund raising tactic!
Sadly.... I think Trumps theory is that this lawyer is related to an act that occurred during the Campaign when Donald Trump Jr was an "employee" of the campaign.
But let's pause for a minute on something that I just thought about..
Remember a couple months ago when we posted the thread about Trump having a Fundraiser for his 2020 campaign a month after he was inaugurated and we were trying to figure out... Why in the fuck is he doing this so soon?...
Now we have our answer...
He anticipated the rising costs of his legal defense.. Knew about this loophole in the Campaign Finance Act and Knew that he was basically funding the campaign himself.
Dude has already spent over 4.3 million in legal fees and I bet that he didn't have to pay a cent out of his own pocket.
He has these Repub idiots giving him fundraising money for his fucking Legal defense fund...... Dude is basically running a fucking GoFundMe Legal defense account.
You can't make this shit up...
And none of this is illegal.
Sadly it isn't..... in this case...
“When it comes to legal expenses, the test is whether the expenses would have been incurred irrespective of the campaign,” said Daniel Petalas, a Washington campaign-finance lawyer who served as the Federal Election Commission’s acting general counsel and head of enforcement. “So if the allegation is Trump — either as candidate or officeholder — is facing legal costs as a result of those statuses, then he is entitled to use his campaign funds to defray the legal expenses.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...09f62e-3f22-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html
But it could possibly become illegal.... If there is a separate action related to their attempted cover up of Donald Trump Jr's meeting with that Statement that the president signed off on last weekend.
There were accomplishments?Reuters
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Sun Aug 13, 2017 | 12:55 PM EDT
President Trump's reelection campaign releases television ad
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks before signing the Veterans Affairs Choice and Quality Employment Act at Trump's golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S. August 12, 2017.
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By Ginger Gibson | WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's reelection campaign released its first television advertisement on Sunday, a 30-second spot that attacks Democrats and touts the accomplishments of his first seven months in office.
The ad's release comes amid intense criticism of Trump's response to the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a planned rally by white supremacists led to violence that killed a counter-protester.
Speaking on Saturday from his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump stopped short of calling the demonstrators "white supremacists" and instead criticized groups on "many sides." Even members of his own party said he had failed to adequately condemn those behind the violence.
The new advertisement uses the same video clips, still images and font as one released earlier this year by America First Policies, a political group that is able to secretly raise and spend unlimited sums of money. Trump's campaign and America First Policies are prohibited by law from coordinating with each other.
Trump filed for reelection the day he took office, an unusual move that has allowed him to begin campaigning long before the November 2020 election. Historically, incumbent presidents have waited two years, until after the midterm elections, to file formally.
Trump's campaign did not respond to a request for comment about how much money it was spending on the ad, where it was running or why it decided to release it this weekend.
The ad says Trump has created jobs and helped the stock market since taking office.
"The president's enemies don't want him to succeed, but Americans are saying, 'Let President Trump do his job,'" the advertisement states.
Trump continues to struggle with low approval numbers, and the television ad could be an attempt to bolster his support. His campaign has raised more than $12 million since the beginning of the year.
"This new campaign ad speaks directly to the American people and sets the record straight, reminding them that President Donald Trump will not stop fighting for them and will not allow anyone to stand in his way to deliver success for them,” campaign manager Michael Glassner said in a statement announcing the ad.
(Reporting by Ginger Gibson; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
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Bump for those thinking Trump just started his reelection bid