The Trump campaign aggressively produces merchandise based on the news cycle: see “pencil neck” Adam Schiff shirts, or “stand up for America” football jerseys.
If Liberty University buys $300,000.00 worth of Trump straws, would the difference between the cost of ordinary straws and Trump straws count as a campaign contribution?
Does anybody know who bought these straws? How much did they cost to produce, sell and ship? We need more detail before can judge if this was successful.
We must consider the source of this information. Considering that source, there’s a very good chance that their whole straw venture was actually an abject failure.
When I awoke this AM, I had a crisis of faith, so to speak: I said to mineself “I am missing some extremely important bit of political news, without which my life will be unfulfilled. What can it be?”
Then, as if guided by some unseen force, my hands guided my browser to TPM, where I found the answer: how much money the Treason Straws brought in to the Traitor-in-Chief’s campaign.
Im Vorgefühl von solchem hohen Glück Genieß ich jetzt den höchsten Augenblick.
His books hit the top of the best-seller lists consistently.
Turns out, his folks would go out, buy up everything in sight, then turn around and ship the same books out again to stores to sell as new books.
Got caught because some bookstores (remember those things, how quaint!) put bookmarks in books when selling them, and were getting shipments of “new” books that already had bookmarks in them…