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BumRushDaShow

(163,990 posts)
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 09:59 AM 15 hrs ago

Trump Again Funneling Money From Political Committees He Runs Into His Own Pocket

Source: Huff Post

Nov 29, 2025, 08:00 AM EST


WASHINGTON – Even as he leverages his presidency to make himself millions, perhaps even billions of dollars, Donald Trump is also funneling Republican donor money into his own cash registers through the political committees he controls. In the 10 months since he retook office, the Republican National Committee has spent at least $796,513 at Trump’s hotels and country clubs, while MAGA Inc., Trump’s super PAC, has spent $60,733, according to a HuffPost analysis of Federal Election Commission data.

The figures are based on filings to date, with some committees providing updates only twice a year. The total number for 2025 will not be disclosed until the end of January 2026. The combined $857,246 represents just under four-fifths of the $1.1 million that the Republican candidate and committees spent at his properties.

The RNC, for example, spent $193,145.70 on March 5 to hold an event at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s country club and residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Two months later, on May 2, the committee spent $307,202.49 for an event at his golf resort in Doral, near Miami’s airport. Three weeks later, on May 30, MAGA Inc. spent $20,711.84 at Trump’s golf course in Sterling, Virginia.

In all, 73 different GOP candidates and committees sent money Trump’s way, from $45.20 from Wyoming congresswoman Harriett Hageman’s campaign to $1,461.13 by the Massachusetts Republican Party to the five- and six-figure sums spent by MAGA Inc. and the RNC.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-political-money_n_6928c95ee4b08a35c1af4737?origin=home-latest-news-unit



Grifters gotta grift.
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Trump Again Funneling Money From Political Committees He Runs Into His Own Pocket (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 15 hrs ago OP
This is why I know for sure he could not possibly have resisted Epstein's business travelingthrulife 15 hrs ago #1
I agree, he would never let Epstein have all that revenue. Irish_Dem 14 hrs ago #4
You can be sure popsdenver 13 hrs ago #8
I think there is even more. Irish_Dem 13 hrs ago #9
She is safe popsdenver 12 hrs ago #10
No one is safe from the Trump Crime Syndicate. Irish_Dem 12 hrs ago #11
No one is safe from the Trump Crime Syndicate. Irish_Dem 12 hrs ago #12
Time to go to the Hague popsdenver 12 hrs ago #13
Miller probably works with Putin. Irish_Dem 12 hrs ago #14
I seriously doubt whether justice will be done. Irish_Dem 12 hrs ago #15
Truthfully, popsdenver 11 hrs ago #17
There's been no evidence publicly shown that Epstein's sex abuse of minors was a money-making venture AZJonnie 11 hrs ago #18
ha ha. Big banks involved just for the fun of it. Irish_Dem 11 hrs ago #19
Apparently we deploy widely divergent standards when it comes to what's known as "evidence" AZJonnie 10 hrs ago #21
What Quid does one expect for a Quo of $45.20? bluedigger 15 hrs ago #2
Trump will always vacuum up all the loose change in front of him. Irish_Dem 14 hrs ago #5
We can assume he is funneling everything he can get ahold of. Irish_Dem 15 hrs ago #3
The buzzard's little nest egg..... Bayard 13 hrs ago #6
trump's religion Mr.Bee 13 hrs ago #7
*pretends to be surprised* sakabatou 11 hrs ago #16
Grifters gotta grift. Gimpyknee 11 hrs ago #20

travelingthrulife

(3,994 posts)
1. This is why I know for sure he could not possibly have resisted Epstein's business
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 10:02 AM
15 hrs ago

No way he would have passed up a prize like that.

Irish_Dem

(78,343 posts)
4. I agree, he would never let Epstein have all that revenue.
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 10:56 AM
14 hrs ago

He wanted a piece of the action as soon as he realized how much money Epstein was hauling in.
And all the big banks handing out money as well for the sex and drug ring.

popsdenver

(1,190 posts)
8. You can be sure
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 12:39 PM
13 hrs ago

that his DOJ and FBI have handed over copies of everything they have to Trump, and he is already blackmailing all the Uber Wealthy and Politcians, who were enjoying what Epstein & Ghislaine were offering......You can be sure that that is the reason that Epstein went bye-bye, and he is set to give Ghislaine a forever get out of jail free pardon......the only two people that could have made the blackmail impossible......

Irish_Dem

(78,343 posts)
9. I think there is even more.
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 12:50 PM
13 hrs ago

I think Trump had quite a few of these files copied during his first term.
And had CIA dossiers compiled on most of his friends and enemies as well.
And on judges and members of congress.

I would also not be surprised if Trump still has a drug and sex ring going.
Too much money there for him to drop this product line.

50/50 whether he will let Ghislaine live.

popsdenver

(1,190 posts)
10. She is safe
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 01:35 PM
12 hrs ago

just like Heidi Fleis? who basically also go off scott free.....

Both of these females were smart enough to have complete records of everything, distributed to several people......
The people had instructions to send the records, if ANYTHING happed to them, to news media, foreign and abroad.
Dynamite insurance policies that would prevent any person or group from coming after them........

Irish_Dem

(78,343 posts)
11. No one is safe from the Trump Crime Syndicate.
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 01:39 PM
12 hrs ago

Especially now that Trump is hell bent on revenge and cruelty.

Everything Trump touches dies.

I don't believe Trump cares what comes out about him.
He knows he is untouchable

Irish_Dem

(78,343 posts)
12. No one is safe from the Trump Crime Syndicate.
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 01:39 PM
12 hrs ago

Especially now that Trump is hell bent on revenge and cruelty.

Everything Trump touches dies.

I don't believe Trump cares what comes out about him.
He knows he is untouchable

popsdenver

(1,190 posts)
13. Time to go to the Hague
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 01:46 PM
12 hrs ago

for some massive Nuremberg Trials.......along with Putin

Putin had to come to Alaska, or the area that Trump mistakingly referred to as "Russia", due to the fact that there are many countries that will arrest him on the spot, and send him to the Hague for International War Crimes, (along with Assad from Syria)

Trump has TWO masters he is taking directions from......Putin & the Stephen Miller 2025 group......

Irish_Dem

(78,343 posts)
15. I seriously doubt whether justice will be done.
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 01:49 PM
12 hrs ago

Big money and power keep protecting each other.

AZJonnie

(2,443 posts)
18. There's been no evidence publicly shown that Epstein's sex abuse of minors was a money-making venture
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 02:13 PM
11 hrs ago

The closest thing we have on this subject is the victim's group civil suit re: misconduct alleged against JPMC in 2022-23. The allegations centered around Epstein's pattern of cash withdrawals (of his money) that should have been reported but were not, because he had his buddy Jes Staley inside JPMC running interference, and upper management appeared to be more interested in keeping Epstein's investments under their control than getting him in trouble by making legally-required reports.

The victims alleged this cash being withdrawn (and not reported) was used to pay them, and Epstein's recruiters, for their "services" (some victims were also paid for recruiting so they fall into both classes), but never suggested there was some big-dollar international trafficking ring involving rich dudes from all over the world. It was pretty much just that JPMC looked the other way about his cash withdrawals and some there knew (or should have known) that the cash withdrawals were being used for illicit purposes.

There was certainly no allegation along these lines "And all the big banks handing out money as well for the sex and drug ring", in the context it was 'the bank's money', like they were themselves "investors". That is totally unsubstantiated by anything we know (at the moment at least), and the victims group did not make that claim. It was all about Epstein's use of his own accounts, and that JMPC looked the other way because he had large investment accounts with them they didn't want to lose the $$$ from.

I personally don't believe the Biden administration would've just ignored it and only charged Maxwell with trafficking a couple of girls to Epstein if he were in fact running a for-profit international sex trafficking enterprise with a demonstrable money trail.

AZJonnie

(2,443 posts)
21. Apparently we deploy widely divergent standards when it comes to what's known as "evidence"
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 03:07 PM
10 hrs ago

As well as "counter-arguments".

But to each their own, my friend

Irish_Dem

(78,343 posts)
5. Trump will always vacuum up all the loose change in front of him.
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 10:57 AM
14 hrs ago

He cannot resist any cash he can steal.

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