Jared Kushner Reportedly Created a Shell Company to Secretly Pay Trump Family Members and Spend Half the Campaign's CashDonald Trump and his family have spent the last four years making the airtight case that they view the presidency as simply a means to enrich themselves and their associates. They probably don't particularly like that reputation and, yet, it hasn't stopped them from
funneling taxpayer money to their private business,
gouging the Secret Service, and raising legal defense funds that the fine print
says could go directly to their pockets. Oh, and, according to a new report, setting up a shell company that spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars to pay Trump family members along with other expenditures it seemingly wanted to keep under wraps.
According to Business Insider, first son-in-law
Jared Kushner personally
approved the creation of the company, incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC, in April 2018. From there,
Eric Trump's wife,
Lara Trump, was named president, with
Mike Pence's nephew
John Pence serving as vice president. If you're wondering why the shell company, described as Business Insider as acting "almost like a campaign within a campaign" was necessary, well, it's not entirely clear, but it sure sounds like the express purpose was the ability to shield "financial and operational details from public scrutiny," as it allowed the campaign to avoid federally mandated disclosures concerning what it was spending considerable amounts of money on. And by considerable we mean nearly half of the $1.26 billion raised for Trump's reelection. Which seems like a lot!
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Meghan McCain Fires Back After Trump's Latest Attack on Her Late Father: 'You Still Obsess Over My Dad'Trump, 74, attacked Sen.
John McCain again on Thursday night, tweeting that the 2008 Republican presidential nominee was "last in his class" and "one of the most overrated people in [Washington], D.C."
Meghan, 36, has often spoken out against the president's criticisms at her father's expense, especially since he died of brain cancer at 81.
"Two years after he died, you still obsess over my dad," she
wrote back to the president.
"It kills you that no one will ever love you or remember you like they loved and remember him," added Meghan, who has been on maternity leave since the birth of her daughter. "He served his country with honor, you have disgraced the office of the presidency."
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Trump downplays impact of hack, questions whether Russia involved.........................................
Pompeo says Russia is "pretty clearly" behind cyberattack on U.S.
