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Trump Campaign Spent $1.8 Million On Trump’s Own Businesses, Records Reveal

“I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it,” Trump once told Fortune magazine.

Donald Trump’s reelection campaign steered a total of $1.8 million to the president’s businesses last year, according to the latest campaign finance filings.

The Trump camp spent close to $200,000 on Trump-owned properties and businesses in the last quarter of 2019 alone, according to an analysis of the Federal Election Commission filings by the Center for Responsive Politics and The New York Times.

There were 150 payments to Trump “entities and properties,” according to the Times. Continue reading.

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