For years, we’ve known that the Trump family is as corrupt as they come. However, a new bombshell article from Business Insider confirms that their deception and debasement know no limitations.
According to the article, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was involved in the establishment of a shell corporation that made covert payments to the now-former president’s various family members and spent nearly half of the 2020 Trump campaign cash.
Trump’s son-in-law/White House senior adviser instructed that the shell company’s board be filled by his sister-in-law Lara Trump, Vice President Mike Pence’s nephew John Pence, and Trump campaign CFO Sean Dollman, according to a source familiar with the issue.
According to Business Insider, Donald Trump’s advisers and campaign workers were unaware of how the shell business operated, and campaign officials even went so far as to perform an internal investigation of the company’s operations, which was led by former campaign manager Brad Parscale. However, it appears that the audit’s results were never published. Following Brad Parscale’s dismissal as campaign manager, his replacement, Bill Stepien, is said to have had little contact with the AMMC firm.
“Nothing was done without Jared’s approval,” a former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign alleged. “What Stepien doesn’t know is because Jared doesn’t want him to know.”
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center filed a legal complaint with the Federal Election Commission in July accusing the Trump campaign of “disguising” around $170 million in spending “by laundering the monies” through the AMMC shell corporation.
“[It’s a] scheme to evade telling voters even the basics on where its money is really going [and a] shield to disguise the ultimate recipients of its spending,” Brendan Fischer, the center’s director of federal reform, said.
Should the federal authorities determine that the payments were made in a “knowing and willful” violation of election rules, the Department of Justice may launch its own criminal investigation into the shell business and its operations. Investigators may already be looking into the campaign’s activities, according to numerous individuals from the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission who talked with Business Insider.
“Lara Trump and John Pence resigned from the AMMC board in October 2019 to focus solely on their campaign activities, however, there was never any ethical or legal reason why they could not serve on the board in the first place,” said Tim Murtaugh, the campaign’s communications director. “John and Lara were not compensated by AMMC for their service as board members.”
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