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Official Trump Swamp Thread: Still Corrupt as Fuck

Trump Tower’s key tenants have fallen behind on rent and moved out. But Trump has one reliable customer: His own PAC.

NEW YORK — Inside Trump Tower, swank suit-maker Marcraft Clothes once rented the entire 18th floor, outfitting its offices with fireplaces, mahogany-lined closets and two bars for schmoozing customers.
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But then Marcraft fell $664,000 behind on rent and went out of business last year — its assets having dwindled to $40.75 in a checking account and “1,200 damaged coats,” according to court filings.

One floor up, a business school once led by Kardashian family matriarch Kris Jenner was consumed by lawsuits, falling $198,000 behind on payments to Trump Tower by October 2020, according to court papers. And on the 21st and 22nd floors, the company that made Ivanka Trump shoes racked up $1.5 million in unpaid rent, according to a lawsuit that the Trump Organization filed this year.

But through all that — as Trump Tower has dealt with imploding tenants, political backlash and a broader, pandemic-related slump in Manhattan office leasing since last year — it has been able to count on one reliable, high-paying tenant: former president Donald Trump’s own political operation.


Starting in March, one of his committees, Make America Great Again PAC, paid $37,541.67 per month to rent office space on the 15th floor of Trump Tower — a space previously rented by his campaign — according to campaign-finance filings and a person familiar with the political action committee.


This may not be the most efficient use of donors’ money: The person familiar with Trump’s PAC said that its staffers do not regularly use the office space. Also, for several months, Trump’s PAC paid the Trump Organization $3,000 per month to rent a retail kiosk in the tower’s lobby — even though the lobby was closed.

At Trump Tower, the former president’s PAC appears to be a quiet tenant. Under typical office conditions, with about one worker per 175 square feet, that much space might hold 30 people. But the PAC’s latest campaign-finance filing only listed three employees at that address as of June. And even those three don’t always work there, according to the person familiar with the PAC: They work from home, or follow Trump to his clubs in Palm Beach, Fla., and Bedminster, N.J.
Even when Trump does visit Trump Tower, the person said, he doesn’t use the PAC’s rented space. He works out of his old office up in the Trump Organization’s headquarters on the 25th and 26th floors.

One recent weekday, a Post reporter sought to visit the PAC’s office — but was turned away by a security guard, who said there was no point. Nobody would be there.

Even if Trump’s PAC was a loud tenant, it seems unlikely that the neighbors would notice. Trump’s own marketing materials indicate the other office space on the 15th floor is vacant.

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This is a completely shocking grift of his supporters. Never would have seen this coming...
 

But according to the good governor it's Biden and the LibDems who are overreaching with oppressive big government by creating vaccine mandates. Gotta love that small government Republican who abuses her authority as governor to get her daughter the license and force out the person who denied it to her.
 
And Noem resorts to the classic dodge - she accuses the meanie librul news media of going after her family and "children" (her daughter is 27), but never actually addresses whether she did the things she's accused of. This is the same woman who went after Biden for Hunter's problems in last year's election campaign. Lolz.

 
And Noem resorts to the classic dodge - she accuses the meanie librul news media of going after her family and "children" (her daughter is 27), but never actually addresses whether she did the things she's accused of. This is the same woman who went after Biden for Hunter's problems in last year's election campaign. Lolz.


But Hunter Biden!!
 
Party of Family Values! And it happened at a charity event just last weekend!

 
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This stuff happens in the GOP because there are no consequences for bad behavior. People just do whatever they want.
 
Those stats don't even take into account when they mask their trading via their spouses, etc. @unusual_whales is a fun twitter follow for outing this stuff. He shits all over them regardless of party.
 
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