The long con obviously requires a lot more patience, but the rewards are usually greater.
There you going the packaging for the product.
Are the hats and paraphernalia made in USA?
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If tRumpās ties, shirts, etc. from his clothing line are any indication, you can rest assured that the hats and other paraphernalia are most certainly NOT Made in the USA.
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I donāt get the last line at all:
āCampaigns are required to pay market value on items it purchases, and there is nothing per se illegal about using Trump-owned vendors.ā
So whatās to prevent Trump from just bringing this Parscale guy onto his Trump Org. staff and paying himself the $8 million for digital marketing? Or any other part of the campaign?
If paying yourself is legit for hotels, meals, and airfare, isnāt every aspect of the campaign operations fair game? Canāt he establish a direct mail company, a database company, a tv ad company, a GOTV company, a swag company, etc. etc. etc. and just pocket all the campaign contributions?
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I want to know whose pockets got lined by the Sterling-Draper invoices.I assume it was Lewandowski, but I wouldnāt be surprised if Donald Jr or Eric got their slimy fingers into that pie. I want to hear Clinton surrogates talking about how Trump is using campaign contributions to pay himself through these inappropriate vendor relationships. Itās about time they started accusing him of illegal shenanigans to counter the constant accusations of illegality around the Clinton Foundation. I want Robbie Mook to ask CNN to answer what āSterling-Draperā did and whether their employee Corey Lewandowski got the money.
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Each of these points comes down to the central theme of Trumpās existence, narcissism:
Trumpās Campaign Paid One Company More Than $8 Million
Narcissism. He is spending his money seeking small donors because it makes him feel good to see a higher number of people willing to send him money.
Trumpās Campaign Paid One Company More Than $8 Million
Narcissism. He wants all his fans adoring him and him only. Why have a staff reaching out to others when people can instead come to him and celebrate him in arenas.
Trumpās Still Spending Far Less Than His Counterparts Have At This Point
Narcissism. He doesnāt want others to profit from him but instead wants to spend the money only in ways to enrich himself.
Trumpās Investing Heavily In Swag
Narcissism. What could be more narcissistic than having other people wearing your name?
Trumpās Campaign Has Continued To Spend With Trump-Owned Businesses
Narcissism. He doesnāt want others to profit from him but instead wants any money raised by his campaign to go back to him.
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Not to mention that the Trump rallies are primarily reaching people that are already voting for him, while those people on staff are finding people who are less enthusiastic who can be convinced to vote.
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I wonder how much money he is making on the swag? Maybe not that much in the big picture, but Trump is really into publicizing his ābrandā.
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Could he even legally do that? I am assuming that those people are paid by one of the many Trump companies rather than by him.
I thought I read that he was using campaign funds to pay those people, which of course benefits the corporation because they are having to pay those people for the time they are working on the campaign.
Trumpās Campaign Has Continued To Spend With Trump-Owned Businesses
Donald may lose the race, but he may be the first candidate in history to turn a profit on it.
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I know I just wondered if he was dumb enough to have these made in china when he now makes such a big deal about how heāll put americans to workā¦of course if he kicks out of the latinos and middle east folks it means a lot of whites will have to pick crops, paint houses, and run the cash register at convenience stores. Woo hoo minimum wage here we come!
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Trump is right - this election is rigged. I have identified the saboteurs:
Donald J. Trump
Paul Manafort
Cory Lewandowski
Trump Campaign Staff (Other)
Trump Supporters (High profile)
Trump Supporters (Low profile and/or class)
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Youād win a Darwin Award if you gave this con a single penny.
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The final analysis will be that this was all a Trump Scampaign. Heāll laugh away with millions in profit and the rest of us are left with millions of his deranged, enraged, heavily armed worshipers ready for battle. In his vernacular: Bad!
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I suppose that theoretically this could be done, but consider:
- Even grifters need accomplices.
- Iām not sure how closely the FEC looks into these sorts of expenditures, but I imagine that they might look into the matter of pro quo. If that is the case, then some expertise is necessary ā expertise that would have to be purchased. If Dishonest Don has no need for those entities once the campaign is over and Trump Media is foisted on the world it makes more sense to buy the goods and services than building the capacity into a TrumpOrg subsidiary.
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The next time the Drumpf campaign sends out itās fundraising press releases, I hope that the rest of the media do not breathlessly report on the YUUGE numbers.
To whit:
June: Trump Campaign Raises $51 Millionā¦ which spawned an endless stenographic stream of āTrump Narrows Fundraising Gap with Clinton in Juneā.
Actual: $26 Million raised for the Trump Campaign (July FEC Report)
July: Trump campaign reports $80 million raised in Julyā¦
Actual: $36 million (direct = $21 million / joint RNC fund = $14.5 million; August FEC Report)
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In each case, the campaign press release was at least twice the actual figure raised.
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There were some numbers in another article. He made something like $1.8 million but spent over 900k on salaries for his staff, so his net was really not much.
If Trump reached 200,000 people with his rallies and spent $2M on the rallies, he reached far fewer people than the extra 500 staffers Clinton has for the same money if they only reached 40 people each.
Ummmā¦move the decimal over. They need to reach 400 people apiece. But thatās 10 afternoons as opposed to one. Your point is still very much true.
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Iām not so certain about that. At least back in the primaries there was a certain circus atmosphere to it, that people wanted to go to just to see what the hub bub was about.