Pic Of The Moment: So, It's Clear To Everybody Now That This Trump Thing Is Just A Scam, Right?

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38. Mmm, no it's not clear at all

I don't see anything remotely illegal about this. He's not making money out of other people as (according to the same FEC report) his campaign was so broke that he lent it $2 million from his personal wealth. It's not at all weird that his campaign would pay his other companies (like the airline) for expenses incurred. That's just how business works - if Trump were to start a new firm selling, I dunno, Trump Wigs, and then travel around promoting the products, his airline company would send the Wig company the bill.

There's nothing illegal or even unethical about this. One of the most basic pieces of business know-how is to set each project up as a separate entity so that everything is treated separately for accounting purposes, otherwise it's very hard to stick to a budget or be able to see that a project is failing financially (like his presidential bid seems to be). Any bookkeeper would tell you set up separate accounts for different parts of the business and to bill yourself appropriately. Indeed, you are much more likely to be breaking the law if you don't do so.

I hate Trump and enjoy memes attacking him, but this is just stupid because there's nothing abnormal about this. So what if he spent $208,000 on hats? They're a promotional item. I'm sure Hillary Clinton's campaign has spent a similar or larger amount of money on t-shirts or whatever promo item she uses most of, if they haven't so far they will for the convention and the fall campaign. Make fun of his crap money management by all means, but when you call basic business practices a scam it suggests you're out of ideas.