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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump's Press Secretary Displays One of His Checks in a Little Too Much Detail [View all]
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-press-secretary-check.html
The $100,000 check was made out to a government agency. This time his account and routing numbers were clearly visible.
President Trumps press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, did not appear to use a mock check as others have done.Credit...Pool photo by Andrew Harrer
By Annie Karni
May 22, 2020, 7:41 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON Its a feel-good story that President Trumps press secretaries have relished over the years: the quarterly announcement of which government agency Mr. Trump has selected to be the lucky recipient of his salary, an easy way to show the president sticking to his 2016 campaign pledge to forgo his $400,000 salary and donate it.
In the past, the $100,000 check from Mr. Trump has been made out to the Small Business Administration initiative to help veteran entrepreneurs, to the Office of the Surgeon General to fight the opioid epidemic, and to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, among other places.
But on Friday, Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, did not just reveal that the president was sending his salary to the Department of Health and Human Services to help support the efforts being undertaken to confront, contain and combat the coronavirus.
She also displayed the presidents private bank account and routing numbers.
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The $100,000 check was made out to a government agency. This time his account and routing numbers were clearly visible.
President Trumps press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, did not appear to use a mock check as others have done.Credit...Pool photo by Andrew Harrer
By Annie Karni
May 22, 2020, 7:41 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON Its a feel-good story that President Trumps press secretaries have relished over the years: the quarterly announcement of which government agency Mr. Trump has selected to be the lucky recipient of his salary, an easy way to show the president sticking to his 2016 campaign pledge to forgo his $400,000 salary and donate it.
In the past, the $100,000 check from Mr. Trump has been made out to the Small Business Administration initiative to help veteran entrepreneurs, to the Office of the Surgeon General to fight the opioid epidemic, and to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, among other places.
But on Friday, Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, did not just reveal that the president was sending his salary to the Department of Health and Human Services to help support the efforts being undertaken to confront, contain and combat the coronavirus.
She also displayed the presidents private bank account and routing numbers.
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Someone better call Lifelock...
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Trump's Press Secretary Displays One of His Checks in a Little Too Much Detail [View all]
Dennis Donovan
May 2020
OP
How about Rep. and Sen. salaries pegged to median income of their constituents?
Hermit-The-Prog
May 2020
#12
That's what she gets with her "Show and Tell" bullshit. Just like last week with the notebook for
iluvtennis
May 2020
#14
Could be deliberate. That way "friends" seeking favors would know just where to deposit the money.
NoRoadUntravelled
May 2020
#37