Wonder Where the $107 Million Dollar Inaugural Donations Went?
Remember how all the “left over” inaugural money – more than twice what President Obama spent in 2009 – was going to charity?
Well, not so much.
Of the money, almost half of it was split between two firms, one of which was a firm started by an advisor to Melania Trump, that received $26 million.
One of the companies, WIS Media Partners of Marina del Rey, California, was created by a longtime friend of Mrs. Trump, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, according to a person familiar with the firm. Records show that the firm was created in December 2016, but otherwise there is very little information available about it.
Hey, little buddy, $26 million ain’t bad for less than two months.
Other fun stuff – the concert on the National Mall featuring performances by the country music star Toby Keith and the rock band Three Doors Down cost $25 million.
Security costs “are upward towards $100 million” but luckily for Trump, taxpayers will pay for that. Maybe next time we can be the charity.
Charity begins at home.
1With Trump, charity also takes a staycation.
$26 millions is enough to buy a small radio station. Just saying’ . . .
2Yep, that’s draining the swamp, alrighty.
3Since Trump seems to regard that kind of money as pocket change, he can pay the $10-30 million his Little Green Army Men parade is estimated to cost.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/02/14/trumps-military-parade-would-cost-between-10-million-and-30-million-white-house-budget-director-says/
4After all the phony payments, the bulk will probably end up in the pockets of Putin and Wayne LaPierre.
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