SCOOP: Top TRUMP donors Elliott Broidy & Tom Barrack in 2017 paid ex-Trump aide & now-cooperating Mueller witness RICK GATES ~$300K combined for "inside access to the Trump admin" – even as Gates drew increasing scrutiny from Mueller.
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Elliott Broidy & Tom Barrack had their own access to Trump so why pay deputy campaign chair Rick Gates for access? Per @kenvogel on @DeadlineWH, it could have been to entice Gates to stay loyal to Trump if he were to be indicted. It didn't work.
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Broidy's payments Rick Gates ran from Mar-Jul 2017 to Gates' Konik Madison Group LLC, which also received $37K from Trump's campaign in the weeks before Election Day. Consultants were puzzled by clients' willingness to hire Gates when it seemed he might be indicted.
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Recall: Rick Broidy and Elliott Broidy were both officials of Trump's inaugural committee that raised an unprecedented $107 million, most of which has yet to be accounted for.
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Elliott Broidy, deputy finance chair of Trump's Inaugural Committee, and now-cooperating Mueller witness Rick Gates [comittee chairman Tom Barrack's chief deputy] managed the $107M Trump inauguration fund, which is now under scrutiny by Mueller.
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Why might Trump allies be worried enough about Rick Gates for Broidy & Barrack to pay him off? After his boss Manafort left the campaign, "Gates remained entrenched in Trump operation – on the transition, the inaugural & running Trump's super PAC.
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