2020 Campaign Money Paid to Trump Businesses: Audit finding
Entities and roles
- America First Audit: 2020 Campaign Money Paid to Trump Businessesaudit case
- Donald J. Trumpcomparison subject
Claims and evidence
- analysisdocumented
The campaign-finance record establishes a donor-to-Trump-business revenue path, contrary to the earlier claim that self-funding would remove donor dependence; it does not establish unlawful pricing or net personal profit.
- Roll Call Factbase: Donald Trump Vlog: Self FundingFull transcript; statement that the campaign was totally self-funded
- Federal Election Commission: Browse campaign finance dataItemized disbursement data and bulk downloads for the 2016 and 2020 cycles
- Forbes: Trump Moved $2.7 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Business Before Election DayFEC-filing analysis through Election Day and Trump Tower rent discussion
- The Washington Post: Trump campaign committees spent $1.1 million at Trump properties in the last days of his losing campaignLate-2020 FEC filing analysis and campaign-law limitation