Did Donald Trump Profit From His Own Transition?

Trump for America, a nonprofit that raised millions of private dollars for Donald Trump’s presidential transition expenses, still hasn’t provided more than vague outlines of its spending and won’t say what its plans are for nearly $2 million in leftover cash. But a Center for Public Integrity review of presidential transition and related records raises the question of whether the group used money it collected from wealthy special interests to pay Trump’s company hundreds of thousands of dollars for the transition’s use of Trump Tower in New York City. Such an arrangement would have allowed Trump to personally profit from the initial formation of his presidential administration, ethics watchdogs point out. Three days after Election Day 2016, a Trump presidential transition staff member emailed an official at the federal General Services Administration to float the prospect of using public money to pay for a Trump Tower lease. “Can we get the details again of how to pay for a lease of Trump Tower in NYC?

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