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According to a report from Washington Post, properties owned by Donald Trump are continuing to rake in money from political action committees affiliated with the one-term president as well as the federal government.
With Politico reporting that Trump's PACs 'brought in $82 million during the first half of 2021 and have $102 million in the bank," the Post adds that the money that should be going to either promote Trump's next political run or to back fellow GOP candidates also seeking office, is ending up in Trump's pocket.
According to the Post, "Save America, the leadership PAC where former president Donald Trump is asking loyalists to direct their political contributions, paid for lodging about two dozen times in the first six months of 2021. Nine of those times, the payments went to properties owned by the former president, according to a filing made public on Saturday. All told, the PAC sent at least $68,000 to the Trump Hotel Collection, showing how the real estate mogul — long after ending his presidential campaign and leaving office — continues to use donor money at his own properties."
Additionally, "Make America Great Again PAC, a repurposed campaign account, spent about $200,000 on office and restaurant space in Trump Tower," the Post's David Fahrenholt and Isaac Stanley-Becker are reporting.
Trump has long been accused of enriching himself, such as by overcharging the government for housing Secret Service agents at his golf resorts, and as the Post reports, little has changed.
"Since Trump entered the presidential race in June 2015, he has used his political campaigns and associated committees to pump more than $19 million into his own businesses, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal campaign-finance records," the report states. "The practice began during his 2016 run, when Trump's campaign paid his businesses about $12.5 million — transforming donors' political contributions into private revenue for his businesses. Trump billed his own campaign to fly himself on his Boeing 757 jet, to rent office space in Trump Tower and to hold events at Trump golf clubs. His name-branded 'Trump Ice' water even showed up on the campaign's tab."
After noting that the government paid out over $2.5 million to Trump during his four years in office and that he is still not done enriching himself at taxpayer expense.
"Trump has continued to bill the U.S. government even during his post-presidency, by charging the Secret Service for rooms they've used while protecting him at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., and at his golf club in Bedminster. The government has paid Trump at least $72,000 this way since he left office, according to receipts obtained by The Post." the report states before adding teh caveat, "There is no rule against Trump charging the government for these rooms, allowing him to continue the practice indefinitely."
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A Fox News guest said on Sunday that he prefers "old-fashioned racism" over critical race theory, a study of racial justice in America.
Robert Woodson, a conservative civil rights activist, made the remarks during an appearance on Fox & Friends.
"It is really destructive," Woodson said of critical race theory. "I prefer the old-fashioned racism. This new racism is more insidious and more self-destructive than the old racism. The old racism was external. This is really internal."
He suggested that systemic racism is a myth because Black men make up a majority of NFL and NBA players.
"So when there's positive disparities, is this because white people permit Blacks to perform?" he asked. "And yet when we come to the English classes and math classes, we're behind. Does this mean that white people have to give us permission?"
Woodson argued that "self-determination" means that racism has little impact on Black Americans.
"Under segregation, we achieved more education than we're doing now in this progressive era," he claimed.
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'What an embarrassment': Critics pile on Susan Collins after her Capitol riot committee comments
August 01, 2021
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) came under withering attack on Twitter Sunday morning after she tried to undermine the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot on Jan 6th that sent her and her colleagues fleeing for their lives.
During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" with host Jake Tapper, Collins -- as she is known to do -- expressed concern with the make-up of the committee and skipped over the fact the Republican leadership has opposed it at every chance and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tried to put at least one possibly complicit Republican, Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) on it.
Speaking with Tapper, the Maine Republican stated, "I think it would have had far more credibility than Speaker Pelosi's partisan committee that she has set up but we should have had a 9/11 style commission to fully look at what happened."
According to one Collins critic, she is still an embarrassment to her state.
You can see some comments below:
@atrupar So Susan Collins, like always, says a whole bunch of nothing.— A Hopeful Citizen (@A Hopeful Citizen) 1627824671.0
@atrupar Not the first time Susan Collins has been wrong.— Paul (@Paul) 1627824362.0
@atrupar There truly is no bottom with republicans. There no low too low.— Undisillusioned (@Undisillusioned) 1627824344.0
@atrupar Just stop the shit already.— Sha Sha (@Sha Sha) 1627824305.0
Susan Collins has dropped her paper-thin mask entirely. She’s in favor of putting insurrectionist treason co-conspi… https://t.co/Q47XwUFSCG— Eric Garland (@Eric Garland) 1627825210.0
Susan Collins is very disappointed. https://t.co/gaHolXzUtA— Jo (@Jo) 1627825284.0
@atrupar What planet is she living on? It isn't this one.— Mara McGuire stands with the Capitol Police (@Mara McGuire stands with the Capitol Police) 1627826067.0
@atrupar They declined a bipartisan committee. Now they complain there should be a bipartisan committee. The gasl… https://t.co/tDXJpoCyDQ— Danno (@Danno) 1627825945.0
@atrupar Who cares what Susan Collins thinks...wasn't she the one that thought Trump had learned his lesson after the first Impeachment...🥴— Dufus Rigamaroll (@Dufus Rigamaroll) 1627826776.0
@atrupar Can we stop asking her opinion on anything? She has been on the wrong side of history for each event. Move on.— Will (@Will) 1627827816.0
@atrupar She’s very disappointed that Gym the Jacketless Screamer wasn’t on the committee! I mean, he’s only a mat… https://t.co/wN3mcpkzuC— Jo (@Jo) 1627824615.0
@atrupar What an embarrassment. People of Maine, you should be mortified by your representative.— Gary Haase (@Gary Haase) 1627825956.0
No other sound bite could more effectively illustrate the hypocrisy of Susan Collins.— A Hopeful Citizen (@A Hopeful Citizen) 1627827909.0
How the hell did Susan Collins get re-elected??— Erie Siobhan is Vaxxed to the Max 🇺🇸 (@Erie Siobhan is Vaxxed to the Max 🇺🇸) 1627827736.0
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