Marjorie Taylor Greene's campaign credit card is being linked to a strange transaction between far-right extremist – and former MTG intern – Milo Yiannopoulos and Kanye West.
According to a report by the Daily Beast, last November Yiannopoulos used the credit card to buy an internet domain for West's as yet unannounced 2024 presidential bid. West's campaign reimbursed him for "domain transfer" for $9,955 – $3,000 above cost, the Daily Beast reported citing receipts and information from a source.
"Legal experts told The Daily Beast that the transactions raise a number of questions, including about possible theft and conversion of campaign funds to personal use," said the report.
The Daily Beast said it wasn't known if Greene's campaign knew about the transaction.
The receipts show GoDaddy billed Greene adviser Isaiah Wartman $7,020.16 for purchasing "ye24.com." A person who claims to have direct knowledge of the incident said Yiannopoulos managed the transaction with Greene's campaign credit card. It is unclear whether Greene had knowledge of the transaction.
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Campaign finance law expert Brendan Fischer called the funds “an excessive and unreported in-kind contribution to his campaign.”
If Yiannopoulos, who also spent time as an adviser to West, charged the Greene campaign card without anyone knowing, “then he may have committed a range of serious violations — including, potentially, causing Greene’s campaign to file false reports with the government," Fischer said.
Federal Election Commission rules state that expenses over $5,000 trigger the requirement for a campaign registration. While West has a 2020 campaign effort, he has not announced a 2024 run, nor has he filed the proper paperwork necessary to navigate the finances.
"While Ye has in recent months used the context of his 2020 campaign to court media attention around a potential 2024 run —spending hundreds of thousands of dollars while raising none — he has still not declared his candidacy or registered with the FEC," said the report.
The transaction also happened on the same day that West shared a meal with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who was advising the rapper. Just a few days later, West walked out of a podcast interview with Fuentes and Yiannopoulos.
Yiannopoulos claims credit for the Trump dinner, but he claims he didn't attend. Yiannopoulos was fired by West not long after the dinner when Yiannopoulos told the media the goal of the dinner was “to make Trump’s life miserable."
Just last week, however, The Beast reported Yiannopoulos was back on the committee of advisers for West.
