2020 Campaign Money Paid to Trump Businesses: Audit finding

Reporting and findings

1. documented

   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