Per campaign finance atty, "to do this legally, the Cruz campaign would have had to buy the books directly from the publisher—not Books-a-Million—and have any royalties Cruz would have earned on the sale given to charity."
@tedcruz The Cruz campaign's latest filing—showing more than $150,000 spent on books at Books-a-Million in the months after his own book was published—does *not* appear to show any offsetting charitable donations.
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With @sendavidperdue's affinity for playing the stock market in the news, seems worth pointing out his son David III appears to be a partner at the NYC-based investment firm PJT Partners. 1/
And in April, David Perdue's son's investment firm, PJT Partners, was selected by @stevenmnuchin1 to work with the airlines on how they will compensate the government for the Covid-19 bailout. 2/
@stevenmnuchin1@arappeport@nytimes And to verify the PJT Partners Mnuchin hired to work with the airlines on the bailout is the same PJT Partners where David Perdue's son is a partner, look at the addresses on the USG and firm's websites. 3/