"On the day Donald Trump became president of the United States, while inauguration festivities were still in full swing, he officially launched his 2020 reelection campaign.
"Donations poured in from more than 50,000 people across the country.
"But according to the latest federal filings, Trump still has not donated a penny of his own, while his businesses continued to charge the campaign for hotels, food, rent and legal consulting.
"That means the richest president in American history has turned $1.1 million from donors across the country into revenue for himself."
How Donald Trump Shifted $1.1M Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Business
Is Trump smart or just another con man?
Does the confidence heuristic explain why so many Americans still find him credible?
I'll send him even more.
Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father
"By age 3, Mr. Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars from his father’s empire.
"He was a millionaire by age 8.
"By the time he was 17, his father had given him part ownership of a 52-unit apartment building.
"Soon after Mr. Trump graduated from college, he was receiving the equivalent of $1 million a year from his father.
"The money increased with the years, to more than $5 million annually in his 40s and 50s."
Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father
"The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.
"By
DAVID BARSTOW,
SUSANNE CRAIG and
RUSS BUETTNER
"Oct. 2, 2018
"The findings are based on interviews with Fred Trump’s former employees and advisers and more than 100,000 pages of documents describing the inner workings and immense profitability of his empire.
"They include documents culled from public sources — mortgages and deeds, probate records, financial disclosure reports, regulatory records and civil court files.
"The investigation also draws on tens of thousands of pages of confidential records — bank statements, financial audits, accounting ledgers, cash disbursement reports, invoices and canceled checks.
"Most notably, the documents include more than 200 tax returns from Fred Trump, his companies and various Trump partnerships and trusts.
"While the records do not include the president’s personal tax returns and reveal little about his recent business dealings at home and abroad, dozens of corporate, partnership and trust tax returns offer the first public accounting of the income he received for decades from various family enterprises."
You dumb cons should have put FRED Trump in the White House instead of his trust-funded, brain-dead offspring.