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9 Mar, 35 tweets, 11 min read
1/32 Why did Donald Trump's lawyers send a cease-and-desist order to the GOP to stop using his name?

Because it is part of a long-running Trump scam to bleed the GOP dry for his personal gain.
2/ Note: this thread is focusing specifically on how Trump's treated the GOP as his personal piggy bank.

That's why I am leaving out stories about his emoluments violations & grifting the government itself, of which there are many. politico.com/newsletters/pl…
3/ Trump lawyers sent cease-and-desist letters to three of the largest GOP fundraising groups, telling the RNC, NRCC and NRSC to stop using the ex president’s name and likeness in fundraising appeals and merchandise.
cnbc.com/2021/03/06/tru…
4/ His move to tell donors to give money directly to him is no great surprise; throughout his domination of the GOP, he has worked to entirely usurp their fundraising arms. cnbc.com/2021/03/09/tru…
5/ While Donald Trump has long championed himself as a master real estate tycoon, talk to anyone familiar with how he built his fortune and they will tell you that the key to his success wasn't buying buildings. It was in agreeing to license his name --
cnn.com/2021/03/09/pol…
6/ literally -- to a variety of buildings, reality TV shows & other ventures that wanted to benefit from being associated with a brand that, for many Americans, exuded over-the-top opulence.

Now he's using this tactic to take over the Republican Party.
vox.com/22321215/trump…
7/ Trump's been fleecing the GOP for a while.

He used campaign money to make up for a tenant shortage at Trump Tower, spending $37.5k a month in campaign funds at his own building — even though much of the GOP’s leased space in Virginia has gone unused. huffpost.com/entry/trump-to…
8/ In fact, the Trump campaign spent money at a LOT of Trump properties.

publicintegrity.org/politics/trump…
9/ By March of 2019 Trump had shifted $1.3M of campaign donor money into his business. forbes.com/sites/danalexa…
10/ We know he's not using that money to pay his bills; Trump is notorious for stiffing contractors, a practice that has continued when dealing with cities and police departments from his many rallies. publicintegrity.org/politics/donal…
11/ To this day, Trump still owes $7M in INAUGURATION costs from 2017! washingtonpost.com/local/dc-polit…
12/ And there's still $40M missing from Trump's Inaugural fund.
13/ Remember that Forbes story above? By Jan. of 2020, the amount of donor money shifted to Trump's private business had risen to $1.7M. forbes.com/sites/danalexa…
14/ A lot of it was going to Trump family members, properties, and businesses. though.
15/ It most certainly was still not going to pay was his bills: washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
16/ Approximately $3.4M went to Trump's Mar-a-Lago super bowl party in 2020.

PS: This was while he knew a deadly pandemic was bearing down on us. businessinsider.com/trumps-super-b…
17/ Another $5M went to a Super Bowl ad that came in dead last in ratings. americanindependent.com/donald-trump-s…
18/ By the end of January that year, the Republican Party had paid Trump's Doral resort in Miami nearly half a million dollars.
19/ By March, we learned that the Trump family was using the Trump campaign to raid WinRed, the right's knockoff of ActBlue.
20/ One way it was doing so was by paying inane amounts of money to Eric Trump's wife and Don Jr.s girlfriend as "consultants."
21/ Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others

Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle are each receiving $15,000 per month through the campaign manager’s private company, GOP sources said, to dodge FEC rules. huffpost.com/entry/trump-se…
22/ Trump's campaign manager & his allies commandeered Republican voter data & fund-raising engines, consolidating power - & profiting - in ways never before possible. nytimes.com/2020/03/09/us/…
23/ By June, the pandemic was in full swing and Trump rallies were costing $1.8M a piece. He still wasn't paying for them, though. newsweek.com/donald-trumps-…
24/ Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale seemed to be making out like a bandit.

Companies owned by Parscale have received nearly $40 million from Trump's reelection committees, and Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle were getting $15k a month each.

businessinsider.com/trump-campaign…
25/ By July, the Trump Campaign had paid over $170M to affiliates of now EX-campaign manager Brad Parscale without disclosing the ultimate recipients of the money.

They chose the perfect picture to show how broken up Brad is about being fired.
wsj.com/articles/compl…
26/ Come October, Parscale had left the Trump campaign entirely, followed by his infamous meltdown and arrest. axios.com/brad-parscale-…
27/ The Trump campaign swiftly moved to distance itself from Brad Parscale after he was detained by police when his wife reported that he was planning to harm himself. thedailybeast.com/the-trump-camp…
28/ Enter Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, long placed in charge of things he had no business being in charge of.

His role in the Trump-GOP money machine began early on, and concerned many. yahoo.com/lifestyle/conc…
29/ While Brad was grifting as Trump Campaign chair, Kushner bizarrely took over the purse strings for the RNC, infuriating Republicans like Kevin McCarthy as he denied vital funding during the 2020 campaign season.

salon.com/2020/07/26/cas…
30/ At some point after Parscale was let go, Kushner seems to have stepped in there, and after Trump lost the election continued the plundering. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
31/ He did so with the tacit aid of Eric Trump's wife, Lara Trump, who already had a role in the campaign, the Trump Campaign spent over $700M with shady American Made Media Consultants, which also boasted Mike Pence's nephew as a board member. nytimes.com/2020/12/18/us/…
32/ This takeover bid has been a long time coming. Trump has been consolidating his hold on the fund-raising apparatus of the Republican Partym because in Trump's book, he who controls the money controls everything.

#ShouldHaveKnownItWasAScam
Apologies for a few typos here and there; we're deep into what I call my "Feb Flu", a really, REALLY bad seasonal allergy that knocks me for a loop every year, and today is a bad day for it.
Looks like the RNC's fundraising efforts will not go gently into the night...

RNC brushes back Trump team on cease-and-desist demand

The committee says it has “has every right to refer to public figures" while fundraising. politico.com/news/2021/03/0…
...yet despite Trump's attack on them or perhaps because of it, the RNC has moved a portion of its spring donor retreat to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club.

Grifters gotta grift.
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…

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