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<div></div><div>Per The Beast, a list of more than 12 political committees and dark money groups has been released. In fact, all of the organizations contain similar names and wording.
<ul class="ee-ul" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 589.456px;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Make America Great Again PAC (converted from the old Trump campaign)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Make America Great Again Action (super PAC)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Make America Great Again, Again! (super PAC)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump Make America Great Again (small-dollar joint fundraising committee)</li><li style="">Make America Great Again Policies Inc (a 501(c)(4) nonprofit)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">America First Policy Institute (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">America First Works (formerly America First Policies; a 501(c)(4) nonprofit)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">America First Legal Foundation (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">America First Action (super PAC)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Save America (leadership PAC)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Save America JFC (joint fundraising committee)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump Victory (high-dollar joint fundraising committee)</li></ul>“Typically, former presidents focus on their presidential library, or start a charitable foundation, but Trump is staying in the political game and raising a staggering amount of cash,” Fischer said.“It is worth emphasizing: All of this is totally unprecedented for a former president,” Fischer told The Daily Beast. “Even if Trump kept it simple, and just had one hard money PAC, a single super PAC, and a pair of 501(c)(3)/501(c)(4) nonprofits, there would be no parallel with any former president in American history.”The handling of each organization also includes distinctive activity patterns which The Beast has pointed out."His first such disclosure <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/24/7-revelations-from-donald-trumps-financial-disclosure.html" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">revealed</a> positions with more than 500 entities, nearly 400 of which used his name or initials. And Trump has 'organized' the mess in a stultifying Russian-nesting-doll structure—companies within companies within companies. Frequently, one company will be held under multiple Trump companies at the same time, each with stakes in still other Trump companies."It has also been noted that the structure of each entity has given the Trump Organization a substantial advantage for "financial flexibility while making it difficult to follow the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2021/11/08/the-definitive-networth-of-donaldtrump/?sh=53b981aa72dc" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">billions</a> of dollars that Trump, his family, and his accountants move across the organization."Brett Kappel, a campaign finance specialist who also focuses on nonprofit law for Harmon Curran, offered his assessment of the situation.“The central lesson of Watergate is ‘<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QodGxD19_as;!!LsXw!QMOq4spFWjW5idgaIBxthPO_Ti_qYPMIJ4o8m-Tlu3GJZdVCtpvS2fxe7GyaX5988bjG51YSWyw0YWVWUAasHrLMLDm7PDC-%24" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Follow the money</a>,’” Kappel told the news outlet. “And this byzantine structure of different types of legal entities—which are subject to different fundraising restrictions and file different reports with different agencies according to different filing schedules—appears to be designed to make that task as difficult as possible.”=</div><div>
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</div>=<div>beast<div>...Of these groups, Save America leadership PAC is currently Trump’s main squeeze. Most of the money he raises goes there. The Save America JFC is a joint committee that splits donations between Save America and MAGA PAC, which used to be the Trump campaign. Weirdly, MAGA PAC doesn’t get much out of this joint arrangement—more than 90 percent of every contribution goes to the Save America PAC.</div><div style="">And the super PACs are, as mentioned above, something of a mess.As for the “dark money” nonprofits, unlike the PACs, these groups file with the IRS. They don’t have to disclose their donors at all (hence “dark money”). They also only file once a year, and because those deadlines are so late, it can take nearly two years for a transaction to become visible to the public.The IRS restricts their activities, too. Some groups have leeway to be political (the 501(c)(4) groups). Some must focus on social welfare (the 501(c)(3) groups). The Trump network has a healthy helping of both.Sometimes, however, these PACs and nonprofits can overlap, even sharing employees and office space, like America First Action and America First Policies did during the Trump administration.[shuffle?]And while they appear to be giving that another go, as the FEC found, it hasn’t been so clean this time.Enter Lewandowski.After Trump left the White House, the industriously sycophantic Lewandowski wormed his way back into his graces, winning the right to run the Make America Great Again Action super PAC. At the same time, he quietly created a Florida nonprofit, Make America Great Again Policies Inc.But MAGA Policies didn’t appear to do anything—at all. There has been no reporting on any actual activity since it was created. Zero. It is a black box.Then Lewandowski reportedly sexually assaulted a Trump donor and got himself booted from orbit. More experienced hands took over the new MAGAA! super PAC, led by former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, and that also got complicated.[Trump PAC Lavishing $37K a Month on Trump Tower Rent: WaPoDONATIONS WELL SPENTAccording to a new corporate filing in Florida, Bondi—who also happens to lead the massive America First Policy Institute nonprofit—also took over Lewandowski’s mysterious MAGA Policies nonprofit, adding former Trump administration officials Ric Grenell and Matt Whitaker, as well as Donald Trump Jr. paramour Kimberly Guilfoyle. All of those people are also on the new super PAC’s payroll.But here’s the rub: The super PAC hasn’t been paying them directly. The nonprofit has, as part of a “cost share agreement.”On Tuesday, the FEC sent the super PAC a letter saying that’s not cutting it. The group needs to explain exactly what they mean by “cost share agreement,” the letter said, because what they provided is not adequate.Kappel said the FEC may be trying to figure out whether the two groups are “financially and operationally independent.” If the super PAC was found to be “connected” to the MAGA Policies nonprofit, he said, that means it can only raise money from people tied to the nonprofit—and not from the general public. That would be a death blow, and the group would be forced to reorganize itself yet again.Fischer said he wouldn’t be surprised to see more groups strategically shut down, like Trump Victory began doing last year.“It might be more straightforward for Trump to shut down MAGA PAC,” he said, though he pointed out that MAGA PAC appears to own the campaign’s valuable supporter data, which might make it more cost-effective to retain for joint fundraising efforts.But, Fischer pointed out, even though the constellation of Trump-aligned groups is basically unnavigable, it always could have been worse.“Recall that Brad Parscale also started the ‘American Greatness’ super PAC in 2021, which never really got off the ground,” he said.
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