The New York Times has obtained documents that show Lara Trump, President Trump’s daughter-in-law and a senior campaign adviser, served on the board of a limited liability company through which the Trump political operation has spent nearly $900 million since 2019.
As noted by The Times, the president has spent millions of campaign dollars on his own family businesses in the last five years. But the newly disclosed records show an even more intricate intermingling of Trump’s political and familial interests than was previously known.
“The arrangement has never been disclosed. One of the other board members and signatories in the draft papers of the L.L.C., American Made Media Consultants, was John Pence, the nephew of Vice President Mike Pence and a senior Trump adviser,” the report notes. “The L.L.C. has been criticized for purposefully obscuring the ultimate destination of hundreds of millions of dollars of spending. Ms. Trump is married to the president’s son Eric Trump.”
The president has spent millions of campaign dollars on his own family businesses in the last five years. But the newly disclosed records show an even more intricate intermingling of Mr. Trump’s political and familial interests than was previously known.
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A spokesman for the president, Tim Murtaugh, said that neither Ms. Trump nor John Pence was compensated by American Made Media Consultants for their service as board members.
You can read more at The New York Times.
