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</div><div>President Donald Trump’s fundraising operation paid about $400,000 to the <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/11/15/trumps-d-c-hotel-is-for-sale-and-heres-the-pitch-get-rich-off-foreign-money/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Trump International Hotel in Washington</a> in the second quarter, an analysis by a researcher at the Center for Responsive Politics revealed.The Trump Victory Committee, a joint fundraising operation between Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, spent about $400,000 at Trump’s hotel between April and June, according to CPR researcher Anna Massoglia.Trump’s fundraising operation has steered “over $3 million in donations from presidential campaign donors to Trump family, properties & businesses with his 2020 re-election campaign & Trump MAGA joint fundraising [committee],” <a href="https://twitter.com/annalecta/status/1283604353497079808" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Massoglia wrote on Twitter</a>. “$17.4M+ counting 2016."[twt doc]the Trump Victory Committee previously spent more than $250,000 at the Washington hotel in the second quarter of 2019, according to an analysis by <a href="https://1100pennsylvania.substack.com/p/trump-victory-reached-250000-in-spending" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">1100 Pennsylvania</a>. The hotel has received more than $1.1 million in total from Trump Victory, the RNC, Vice President Mike Pence’s Great American Committee and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s Protect the House committee.Trump campaign spending has been a boon for his private company, from which he has refused to divest. By last fall, political spending by Trump’s campaign committees and his allies at Trump properties topped $20 million, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/10/trump-properties-poli-spending-passes-20m/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">according to CPR data</a>.Trump’s presidency, which he kicked off by <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/01/22/dc-attorney-general-sues-trumps-inaugural-committee-for-allegedly-violating-its-nonprofit-status_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">dropping $1 million to book a ballroom</a> at his own hotel ahead of his inauguration, has also resulted in new cash flow for the company.The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold has <a href="https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1283394589890621441?s=20" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">tracked about $970,000 in taxpayer spending</a> at Trump’s properties since he took office, though that number only scratches the surface. Both the administration and the Trump Organization have gone to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-has-paid-rates-as-high-as-650-a-night-for-rooms-at-trumps-properties/2020/02/06/7f27a7c6-3ec5-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">great lengths to conceal</a> how much taxpayer money is spent at the properties.Eric Trump, the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, claimed last year that the administration relied on the president’s properties to save taxpayers money.Secret Service agents “stay at our properties for free — meaning, like, cost for housekeeping,” <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/g-7-at-trump-golf-resort-saves-the-us-money-eric-trump-192655739.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">he insisted</a>. “We charge them, like, 50 bucks.”But receipts obtained by The Post show that the Trump Organization <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/03/06/trump-org-charged-taxpayers-eight-times-more-for-secret-service-stays-than-it-claimed-documents/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">jacked up the prices when Secret Service agents stayed at the property on the taxpayers’ dime</a>. The Trump Organization charges Secret Service an average of $396 per night, or about eight times more than Eric Trump’s claim.Fahrenthold <a href="https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1283394589890621441?s=20" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">wrote on Twitter that he has found</a> “exactly zero cases where Trump Org did what they promised.”“They always charged more,” the reporter added.Newly-released Federal Election Commission filings cast more light on the donors that powered Trump to a $262 million haul between his campaign committees and the party committees in the second quarter.Top donors to the Trump Victory Committee <a href="https://twitter.com/CATargetBot/status/1283598666368839680" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">included</a> Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter and his wife Laura, as well as Jet Support Services CEO Robert Book and his wife Amy. Both couples gave more than $1.1 million combined.Other top donors include oil tycoon Douglas Scharbauer ($580,000), <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/2019/11/22/the-man-who-gave-scientology-360-million-actually-answered-the-phone/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">prominent Scientologist Trish Duggan</a> ($580,000) and Ross Perot Jr. ($575,000).“Trump Supporters, that money he told he desperately needed to help him get re-elected went right in his pocket,” <a href="https://twitter.com/MrJonCryer/status/1283609984077492227" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">actor and activist Jon Cryer</a> tweeted in response to the spending at the Washington hotel.“Who knew,” <a href="https://twitter.com/dpakman/status/1283606724042260481" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">tweeted radio host David Pakman</a>, “running for president could be so profitable.”</div><div>=</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px;">Koch Industries Leads Corporate Contributions</h2>CMD tracked $23.5 million in direct corporate donations to conservative super PACs since 2019, much of which came from fossil fuel companies—most prominently, Koch Industries. In addition to donating $4 million to AFP Action, Koch Industries gave $500,000 to the Congressional Leadership Fund and $750,000 to the Senate Leadership Fund. The company gave nearly $5.3 million to super PACs from 2019 through January 2020.Real estate conglomerate Hillwood Development Co. gave close to $3.1 million to GOP PACs, including $1.1 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, $1 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, and $1 million to Engage Texas, a super PAC funded by Texas-based companies and business executives that <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/01/engage-texas-super-pac-voter-registration/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">launched</a> in June 2019 “with the goal of registering hundreds of thousands of new voters and convincing them to help keep the state red in November.”Hillwood Development founder Ross Perot, Jr. gave $10,000 to Texans for a Conservative Majority, a super PAC that was founded in 2013 by a <a href="https://publicintegrity.org/politics/lone-star-lobbyist-launches-hybrid-super-pac/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">corporate lobbyist</a> to help reelect Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and came out of hibernation last year to help the senator keep his seat again.Oil giant Chevron added $1 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, $750,000 to the Congressional Leadership Fund, and $15,000 to Maverick PAC. ConocoPhillips ANS Marketing Company, a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips, donated $1 million to the Senate Leadership Fund and $250,000 to the Congressional Leadership Fund. Oil and gas pipeline company Energy Transfer donated $1 million to Engage Texas and $100,000 to Texans for a Conservative Majority.Thirty-seven companies and one trade group gave more than $100,000 to conservative super PACs from 2019 through January 2020....</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div>H.R. Perot, Jr. of Plano, Texas, gave $20,000. He is Ross Perot's son, and has been called the wealthiest Texan of all time. Forbes has reported his net worth as $1.5 billion. He is also a big backer of Perry and the Texas Republican establishment.===