Trump Inaugural Donors Fictitious

[The_Doctor]

Ah, yes, the Trump Administration demonstrating that they are the most ethical White House of all time.  The long and short of this particular article is that Twitter found out that inaugural donors were falsified to the FEC (the White House claims it is a "data entry" issue).

By the by, this is the stuff that will bring Trump down faster than Russia.

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Her lawyer denied that she had ever made the donation, of course.

So, I know that some of you are going to immediately jump on "OBAMA DID IT TOO!" Please peruse the New York Times bit where it says that Obama donations were much smaller. This is donations in the tens of thousands, which you don't just make up wholesale.

The operative question is, why were these donors hidden? And who are they actually?

[Technocracy Timmy]

If it isn't a scandal then he'll either resign out of boredom or due to health reasons.

[Beet]

So they were hoping the poor old lady wouldn't notice she was listed until she dies, at which time there's no one left to deny it? Sinister.

[Dr. Arch]

What the hell? This is insane. There's a lot of shadiness going around.

[The_Doctor]

The White House counsel, Don McGahn, and the personal Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen, should have been on top of this. But given what kind of White House this is, this is funny that they thought this stuff would slide, in FEC reporting and that nobody would be investigating them.

News flash - when you are in the White House, everything gets investigated. And in a White House as accused as Trump's, of Russian collusion, mafia connections, shady business deals, you can imagine that everything that could possibly be investigated will be investigated.

But again, this is the Trump WH's modi operandi because they have never, ever been in politics before. Most average Republican Presidents are extra careful. The W. White House was extremely careful about campaign finance issues and making sure they were on the up and up. Reagan's re-election campaign made copies of every single check (Bay Buchanan was the campaign treasurer) and made sure everything was 100% legal.

Trump doesn't even have that level of diligence.

Which raises a new question: of the major donors to the campaign, how many donations were accurately recorded? How many donors were properly disclosed? And how many "errors" are there?

(And no, you cannot "screw up" a $25,000 dollar data entry donation and make up a fictitious name. And that wasn't the only one. There's a clear cover up attempt here).

[I Won - Get Over It]

At least there is more evidence here than in the whole Trump-Russia story.

[SoLongAtlas]

The steam kettle is about to boil over. If the Dems retake the House in 18, I fully expect articles of impeachment.

[The_Doctor]

Eventually all of this will either result in impeachment or Trump foregoing a second term, and revelations in the 2020s that the extensive underhanded dealings were much worse than what we thought. Obviously, the Trump supporters here will disavow their God-Emperor or say that's old news. (Which is hilarious).

The ethics demonstrated in this tiny case is probably pervasive in the White House, which is why I think they are, as we speak, making a huge ethical lapse in judgment. Trump is above all, and always, always, a grifter in search of a mark to con or a deal to make money.

[SoLongAtlas]

Spreadsheet from Wilkie's investigation. It's being worked on by 6 editors and 100 volunteers. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JaV4FmB9eoS78HR1WlHIZ0aw6GEqkYi6ccdiupVmfOA/htmlview?sle=true#gid=2076979633

7 ties to Russians doing a global search, one gave a million dollars and is an oligarch with ties to Putin (see line 273 in the Excel sheet).