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1. Technically, they can't make personal use of those funds.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Sun Feb 15, 2026, 01:46 PM

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But they can use it to donate to other campaigns or to charities.

Donating (or not) to other campaigns is a way to continue to exert power.

Donating to a charity is, in Donnie's case at least, a good way to make personal use of it given the trump family history of blurring that line.

Besides, no one ever holds him accountable for anything....

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