Trump Paid $12.6 Million to January 6 Rally Organizers

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Trump Paid $12.6 Million to January 6 Rally Organizers

June 17, 2022 at 2:58 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/06/17/trump-paid-12-6-million-to-january-6-rally-organizers/

"SNIP......

“Former President Donald Trump’s political operation and Republican Party committees have paid over $12.6 million to individuals and firms that organized the Jan. 6, 2021, rally that preceded the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol since the start of the 2020 election,” OpenSecrets reports.

“The full extent of the payments from the Trump campaign political operations to rally organizers during the 2020 election and around the rally in early 2021 remains a mystery because the campaign’s top vendor was American Made Media Consultants LLC, a firm created by Trump campaign aides to act as a clearinghouse for its spending.”

“Trump’s campaign and joint fundraising committee routed more than $771 million through the firm, hiding details of those payments.”

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[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Follow the money. Nt

[empedocles]

2. Watergate phrase

[lindysalsagal]

3. What potus wants a 771million dollar trail left behind to reveal their wrong-doing???

Ohm yeah. A failed casino gangster.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. Luckily for IQ45, IOKIYAR always applies ... but it's still friggin' sickening

[brush]

5. WHAT? Now it comes out he actually paid for J6...

to happen, and still pocketed the rest of the 250M he grifted with the non-existent Election Defense Fund scam?

trump is nothing but a walking, talking crime spree. DOJ needs to do its job and indict;

[leftieNanner]

13. I doubt HE wrote any checks to anybody

His election committee or RNC or somebody paid.

[brush]

15. Of course not, but the right witnesses and circumstantial evidence...

following the money would point to him. And btw, raising the 250M by emails using the "big lie" to raise money for a non-existent election defense fund for trump's campaign is wire fraud.

And that's a crime.

[Turbineguy]

6. He actually paid a bill?

[Mr.Bill]

9. Only to launder money.

Much of which probably wound up in his and his family's pockets.

[ewagner]

11. Bingo!

[BannonsLiver]

19. I bet that particular vendor required payment up front.

[mopinko]

7. manafort

can someone please tell us how big that traitor's check was?

[Tesha]

8. How much did the taxpayers have to pay?

I’ll be he stiffed us all.

[Pepsidog]

10. One for you, two for me. One to you three to me, and so on and so forth. Clearinghouse for payments

is a funny name for fraudulent campaign contribution scheme.

[Botany]

12. So Trump was paying himself, his family or his associates out of campaign money or money he ....

.... he raised from fund raising vehicles such as "Stop the Steal?" And he even grifted off of HIS payments for
his the 1/6/21 violent attempted coup.


“The full extent of the payments from the Trump campaign political operations to rally organizers during the 2020 election and around the rally in early 2021 remains a mystery because the campaign’s top vendor was American Made Media Consultants LLC, a firm created by Trump campaign aides to act as a clearinghouse for its spending.”

“Trump’s campaign and joint fundraising committee routed more than $771 million through the firm, hiding details of those payments.”

Good God in Butter that is very illegal.

[erronis]

14. The cons stole money from the people and paid each other in a grifting circle.

We see $ amounts spent on advertising or events or lobbying or "favors". If these $s could be traced we'd see that they went around and around in a big circle, losing accountability. Much of the injection of $$s came from very RW donors who already don't have accountability (Koch, Thiel, Mercer, DeVos, Murdoch, etc.)

What we will also see is that $$$s came in from small donations and was injected into this circle of spending. Almost all of it was siphoned off in spurious fees into the pockets of the original RW donors and, of course the trumpies.

[allegorical oracle]

16. And he's given his personal WH lawyer how much for his legal fees? nt

[dalton99a]

17. Kick

[MissMillie]

18. more than $237 million of what he raised unaccounted for

money like that would be a good start for updating voting equipment, hiring security for poll workers and election officials, opening up more voting precincts in areas where people have to wait in long lines to vote...

Nope, the MAGAs would rather hand it over to the criminal.

[Poiuyt]

20. Republican Party committees??

So the Republican Party is complicit too?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Insurrections are not cheap