President Donald Trump’s re-election effort has been pulling in massive amounts of campaign cash — and making some interesting decisions about how to spend it.
A wide array of expenditures — from chandelier rentals, to payments to Trump companies, to campaign leak prevention devices, even a subscription to a newspaper Trump has denounced as an enemy of the American people — tell the story of where Trump’s donor money is going.
The president’s 2020 campaign filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission late Monday, disclosing what it and the Trump Victory Committee — a joint-fundraising effort with the Republican National Committee (RNC) — raised and spent in the second quarter of 2019.