GOP groups, campaigns have spent at least $4,700,000 on Trump properties
Republicans — candidates, members of Donald Trump-supporting super PACS and the Republican National Committee — have spent a total of at least $4.7 million dollars at Trump’s properties since he became president, according to the latest federal financial filings.
Presidents typically divest from their businesses — or transfer them into blind trusts — when they move into the White House. Trump has done neither and continues to profit from the upsurge in political business at his properties. The take for the first quarter of this year was almost $100,000 at the Trump International Hotel alone, reported Quartz, which was the first to analyze the latest figures.
Public Citizen, a Washington-based nonprofit, analyzed all the available records of political and federal taxpayer spending at Trump businesses. The group’s report — “The Art of the Deal: Political and Taxpayer Spending at Trump’s Properties” — concluded that from 2015 to April 2018 at least $15 million was spent on Trump properties by his campaign, PACs and federal agencies, including expenditures on planes owned by a Trump company and on Trump-branded bottled water.
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