President Donald Trump's inaugural fund spent lavishly at his DC hotel, new docs show

[Eugene]

Source: ABC News

President Donald Trump's inaugural fund spent lavishly at his DC hotel, new docs show

By JOHN SANTUCCI, MATTHEW MOSK, ALLISON PECORIN and BENJAMIN SIEGEL Jan 15, 2019, 3:58 AM ET

President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee spent more than $1.5 million at the Trump International Hotel in Washington ahead of his 2017 swearing-in, according to internal documents reviewed by ABC News.

It is part of an array of expenditures there and elsewhere that included more than $130,000 for customized seat cushions at two gala dinners for the president-elect, $10,000 to provide makeup to the servers at another formal dinner, and $2.7 million to a company that produced a Broadway-style rendition of Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” using Las Vegas show girls flown in by Trump pal Steve Wynn for a private event.

Compared to past inaugurations, the festivities surrounding Trump’s swearing-in were modest in scale – the non-profit group established to oversee the celebration hosted only three major events. But the amount of money involved was record-breaking – with more than $107 million raised and $104 million spent, double the amounts of President Barack Obama’s first inaugural.

"These inaugural committees if there’s not good transparency and disclosure, can turn into slush funds,” said Rep. John Sarbanes, a Maryland Democrat, who has served on the House Oversight Committee. “That’s why you need to have requirements that they disclose what the spending is, where it’s coming from, put some limits on the kind of spending that’s appropriate, so that it’s really going towards inaugural needs, and not other purposes."

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[duforsure]

1. He funneled millions

Into his own pockets from it.

[Scarsdale]

2. Maleria got a huge

multi-million chunk of that. Probably her "payoff" for pretending to be his "vife" It was funneled through a friend of hers who designs party favors or something like that. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $25 million.