Apparently, outside pro-Trump groups aren’t the only ones diverting funds that could help re-elect Trump into their own pockets. It’s also happening inside the campaign.
Unfortunately, a lot of the reporting on this is paywalled. If you can get into this New York magazine article, it will brighten your day. The first party is a succinct explanation of some the grift orchestrated by Brad Parscale. Trump “limited” Parscale’s compensation to between 700K and 800K but it looks like Parscale found a way around that. Apparently the campaign is also paying Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle each $15,000 a month via a back channel in exchange for their public ass-kissing.
(The author of this article also tried to attend 3 meetings advertised for organizing volunteers for door to door campaigning ie: the ground game. At two of the meetings, held at local campaign offices, he was the only one that showed. At the third, which was advertised as being held at a local coffee shop, he arrived to find the business was closed and he the only one there. So he went to local Trump office and they claimed they were unaware of it, then started fighting among themselves over who emailed the invites.)
But, back to the grifters. Here’s a good non-paywalled article describing the some of the schemes.
I’m am really trying to stay pessimistic about the election because complacency is the enemy. But it’s starting to look like these guys are focused on getting as much of the donated money into their pockets instead of campaigning.
Bigly and beautifully!! MANY are saying This!!! In our GREAT country!! The BEST ever in History!! Our BRAVE soldiers brought Snake Oil to the World!! I Saved the World many times!!. MANY people say I deserve the Nobel Prize!! For being the Most Stable GENIUS ever!!
In other words, nothing to do with saving lives, and everything to do with saving that sorry asshole’s political chances. I wonder how many lives have been lost to his incompetence. Republicans suck.
There’s an old cartoon – I think it’s pre-World War II – featuring a version of Porky Pig reciting the pledge without “under God”. It was a bit of a shock to me the first time I saw it, because I wasn’t aware at that point that the pledge had ever been worded any other way.