# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [May 4, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901 "2016-05-04T02:37:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 4955

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/4955 "2016-08-22T17:44:09Z")

</div>

> [@Ravenman](#):
>
> I’m not quite clear on what you mean by companies that will pay Trump after the election. If Trump is, say, a stockholder in a company and will receive dividends on the same basis as similar, other stockholders, then I’m not aware of anything wrong with that.
> 
> If you mean a kickback, which is when a company receives a contract with the expectation that a certain amount would go back to to the candidate as graft, that would most certainly be illegal.

It is being openly speculated that Bannon and Trump will form a media group after the election, possibly with Roger Ailes. TV, internet… an alt-right network with Trump at the center.

So if he does forms this Media Group, and it is constituted with the very same people and companies that he has spent the largest amount of campaign dollars on… is this illegal?

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901)._