Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign

According to his FEC filing, Trump’s campaign paid $30,000 for “web advertising” to a company called “Draper Sterling” - i.e., the fictional company from Mad Men.

Not only does there appear to be no registered company by that name, the street address provided for it is a two-story house in suburban New Hampshire.

Either someone in Trump’s campaign is stealing from him, or Trump is using the campaign to pay off someone he doesn’t want people to know he has a business relationship with.

Joe Biden? :smiley:

Substitute daughter for wife, and you have Ross Perot, all over again.

Your cite suggests it’s Corey Lewandowski.

The house is in Londonberry, NH, to be exact. The town right next to Windham, NH– where Corey Lewandowski hangs his hat.

It gets weirder. “Draper Sterling” is the subject of an FEC complaint about a potentially illegal payment made to it by a PAC (run by the brother of one of the two men living in the house in Londonderry) that shares its address with a “coffee shop” (the street address of which is a vacant lot) also owned by one of those two men, and when their phone number was called the PAC head answered despite supposedly living in Virginia.

This whole thing sounds like a front for some kind of mob activity.

Trump is just a humble New York real estate developer. I’m sure he has never had any dealings with organized crime.:wink:

Don’t you mean Londonderry‽

Gonna give someone a stroke one of these days… :wink:

This might be the first campaign to collapse in a criminal investigation before the election.

I know everyone likes to question Trump’s intelligence and net worth but using the campaign to pay $30k to someone he doesn’t want people to know about is impossibly stupid. There’s about a zillion other ways that don’t require an FEC filing.

Right up Trump’s alley, in other words.

So first it’s not apparently a registered company, now it’s registered to a guy who has done political work in the past. But oh wait, they’ve had an FEC complaint filed by some economics professor. Maybe we should wait until some real reporters look into it instead of jumping to the conclusions the amateur brigade is leading us?

Was that Dr. John Barron or was it Dr. John Miller?

Is CBS real enough for you?

Not really as that story is basically reporting on the thinkprogress story rather than doing any of their own research. Think I’ll wait before I assume Trump is paying off the mob through his campaign funds.

Next media outlet to be denied press credentials…

Did you even read the ThinkProgress story? Did you notice the copies of FEC records?
Or that a website in question has been taken down? And all that’s left is a password protected page?

Any potential Republican candidate has been attacked by the other side for a long time.

I am not a fan of conspiracy theories, but there are also times in which I just don’t believe in coincidences. Lewandoski fired, then FEC irregularities in his town next door appear just one day later? He got canned for skimming, no doubt about it. Hope he enjoys the court system!

This doesn’t sound like Trump. He says everything three times not twice.

Looks like Trump got his cell phone back and has gone on an epic anti-Hillary rant that’s a thing of beauty.

“Hillary defrauded America as Secy of State. She used it as a personal hedge fund to get herself rich! Corrupt, dangerous, dishonest.”

And that’s just the latest. :smiley:

"I am "the king of debt.“That has been great for me as a businessman, but is bad for the country. I made a fortune off of debt, will fix U.S.”

“Hillary Clinton surged the trade deficit with China 40% as
Secretary of State, costing Americans millions of jobs.”

“How can Hillary run the economy when she can’t even send emails without putting entire nation at risk?”

That last one was pretty good and valuable in the “not-insane” part of his strategy, but whew! Keep 'em coming, Donald, we’ve missed you!