From the Wired article:
According to the Trump campaign's self-reported FEC filings, this has amounted to about $600,000 spent at Trump-owned properties in just the first six months of his presidency.
Nearly $400,000 of that campaign money went to rent at Trump Tower, with $90,000 going to the The Trump Corporation for "legal consulting," nearly $60,000 to the Trump International Golf Club, $15,000 to the Trump International Hotel in DC, and about $1,700 to Trump-brand bottled water, among various payments. And that's just the money that went to businesses in which Trump has a personal role. The Trump campaign has spent a total of $10 million in the last six months; any shell companies and subsidiaries of other Trump-owned businesses that may have gotten a piece of that don't have to be disclosed.
So here's how this scam works:
1. Trump starts his re-election campaign a few hours after he takes office on January 20, 2017.
2. Trump asks for money to rich people and supporters for his re-election bid.
3. Trump spends over half a million of that money on his own golf clubs and other properties.
What's truly amazing is how people will give money to Trump even though he is clearling spending it on him.
And by the way: Let's not forget the Trump re-election campaign spent $50,000 in the legal defense of Donald Trump Jr. after his meeting with a Russian lawyer was known. Makes you wonder why Trump didn't pay it out of his own pocket if he is so rich as he claims.
This is perhaps the biggest con in the modern history of US polics.
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