Trump ripped for pouring donor money 'into a legal and financial black hole'

26 August 2024

Veteran lobbyist and corporate consultant Juleanna Glover, now 54, has a long history with the Republican Party — including her work as a senior staffer in the George W. Bush Administration and serving as press secretary for former Vice President Dick Cheney. But in an op-ed published by the New York Times on August 26, the conservative Gen-Xer warns that there are serious questions about the ways in which the 2024 Donald Trump campaign is spending donor money.

"Anyone who has spent time reviewing Donald Trump's campaign spending reports would quickly conclude they're a governance nightmare," Glover argues. "There is so little disclosure about what happened to the billions raised in 2020 and 2024 that donors, and maybe even the former president himself, can't possibly know how it was spent."

The GOP lobbyist/consultant continues, "Federal Election Commission campaign disclosure reports from 2020 show that much of the money donated to the Trump campaign went into a legal and financial black hole reportedly controlled by Trump family members and close associates. This year's campaign disclosures are shaping up to be the same."

Republican donors, Glover laments, "deserve better."

"This election," Glover observes, "the Trump campaign and four of its PACs have paid Red Curve Solutions, another private company, at least $18 million. The Campaign Legal Center says Red Curve appears to pay Mr. Trump's legal bills and then gets reimbursed by the PACs.

The former Bush/Cheney staffer notes that Red Curve's leader "also serves as the treasurer for the Trump campaign as well as the affiliated PACs."

"What percentage of donor contributions go to lawyers defending Mr. Trump?" Glover warns. "It’s impossible to know."

Juleanna Glover's full New York Times op-ed is available at this link (subscription required).

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