Election 2016

Trump Raised The Rent for His Own Campaign

The great grift continues.

As you probably recall, it wasn't until just recently that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump forgave the loans to his campaign by converting them to donations. Prior to that, Trump was essentially paying himself back for every dollar he loaned to his own campaign by using all of his own vendors for campaign services.

Trump is still using his own properties and vendors for campaign services, but the price has gone up now that donors are paying the bills rather than himself.

Trump nearly quintupled the monthly rent his presidential campaign pays for its headquarters at Trump Tower to $169,758 in July, when he was raising funds from donors, compared with March, when he was self-funding his campaign, according to a Huffington Post review of Federal Election Commission filings. The rent jumped even though he was paying fewer staff in July than he did in March.

Who raises the rent on their own goddamn campaign?

Donald Trump does.