The spending is odd in two ways: most of it's in round dollar amounts (unlike most payments from Trump campaign to Trump biz), and it's stairstepped. Each day has a $8,100 payment, an $8,200 payment, an $8,300 payment, and so on up to $10K.
Haven't yet gotten answers as to why.
Haven't yet gotten answers as to why.
Got an answer on the weird stair-stepping payments: source says Mar-a-Lago can’t handle credit-card transactions above $10K. So Trump Victory broke 1 large payment into 43 smaller ones.
This sounds odd, but it’s plausible. Mar-a-Lago made the Secret Service do same thing.
This sounds odd, but it’s plausible. Mar-a-Lago made the Secret Service do same thing.
It's odd b/c Mar-a-Lago routinely hosts very large events -- weddings, galas and now political fundraisers-- where the bill is way more than $10K. Not sure why they handle billing like this.
