Trump's Inaugural Team Scrambled to Defend Staff and Record Haul

[Judi Lynn]

By Caleb Melby
February 21, 2019, 3:00 AM CST

- Tricky question a year after party: What did Rick Gates do?
- Staffers came from Barrack’s Colony Capital, Manafort’s circle

The leaders of President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee saw trouble coming and tried to get ahead of it.

It was January 2018, a year after the black-tie balls and candlelight dinners in Washington. Journalists were asking questions about how the Presidential Inaugural Committee had raised -- and spent -- a record amount of money. The committee, known as PIC, was set to release additional details about its finances in public tax filings. Complicating matters, a key committee staffer, Rick Gates, had months earlier been indicted for lobbying work he’d done with Paul Manafort in Ukraine.

To get everyone on the same page, a team reporting to inaugural chairman Thomas Barrack came up with more than 60 questions and answers to circulate among themselves. One question was particularly tricky.

“What did Rick Gates have to do with PIC?’’ staffers wrote in a late January draft. “[Need answer.]”

More:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-21/trump-s-inaugural-team-scrambled-to-defend-staff-record-haul

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Want to bet Trump pocketed the rest of that Inaugural haul.

How much is he in debt to Putin for?

This is my opinion only, but I am speculating that the BILLIONS he wants for his wall, he is going to stiff contractors for it and pocket much of it so he can settle his debts under the table and "become whole" again with the Russian Oligarchs he owes money to. Which is why he will not release his Tax Returns.

[shraby]

2. What you said Proud. I've thought that for some time.

Everything trump does is to advantage himself in some way, and he always gets a share of the money.

[agingdem]

3. also want to bet

trump intends to pocket the kickbacks from his "wall"?

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. remember the Saudi nuke story, also.

Kushner has already gotten his bribe money from that, so it is logical to assume Trump did too, and it is buried in one of countless LLC they use.
good news...Cohen knows where the money piles are or went to.
and he's gonna talk.