Trump's Fundraising Machine Looks A Lot Like A Money Laundering Operation

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According to a former aide to Donald Trump, he has used hundreds of thousands of dollars from his campaign donor money to rent office space at Trump Tower in New York - Office space that no one is actually using. The campaign machine that is "renting" the space doesn't have a presence in the building (or in the city, for that matter) which means that the money is just being used to line the pockets of the former president, if these reports are true. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Donald Trump, of course, is raising more money really than anybody else running for any office or even running any political party in the United States right now. And the more we find out about this massive fundraising apparatus that Donald Trump has, the more it begins to look a little bit, eh, like money laundering to me. At least personally, I, I can't distinguish much of a difference between a criminal organization laundering money to what the Trump campaign appears to be doing. Donald Trump of course has two political action committees and those political action committees are run out of the state of Florida. And yet, according to new reports, which includes reports from a Trump tower employee and a former aid to the former president.

Trump is paying himself $375,000 by renting office space at Trump tower in New York city to, you know, run those political action committees. The only problem is according to again, a Trump tower employee and a former aid, they don't work there. There's nothing in that office space. It is completely empty. Yet, the save America pac is paying $375,000 to rent those offices that they are not using because they're based out of Florida. So again, I'm not saying he's laundering money, but I'm saying that to me, this looks like money laundering because what he is doing is he is taking donors money, paying it to his own organization to rent space that he is not using and of course that money becomes profits for the Trump organization, which goes back into his pocket because you cannot legally just take money from a political actions committee and throw it into your bank account. Totally illegal.

But political action committees do have to rent office space. They have to have equipment. They have to have employees and those people can get paid. You can pay contractors. And essentially that appears again, based on these reports, based on what we know from this admission that we got from the former aid and then the admission from the Trump tower employees, that appears to be what Trump is doing. He's saying, look, I'm, I'm also a contractor here. I'm the landlord and they're renting property from me that they're not using. If they had a legitimate office in there, it would actually be okay, even if Trump pocketed the profits, because yeah, you gotta have office space. Could you have picked somewhere else? Absolutely. The fact that they're not using shows that this whole thing is likely a huge scam, which for the record is exactly how the former aid described it. It's a huge scam. I can't believe his base lets him get away with it. That's exactly what the former aid said. That's the word for word quote.

And then of course the Trump tower employee has said, yeah, I, my job is actually to monitor, you know, the use of these offices. There's nothing in there. There's nothing. Like it doesn't exist, basically. The office is there, but the people, no. The equipment, no. There's nothing. So it is a huge scam. So just be advised, you know, Trump supporters because I know sometimes you like to troll around on here, if you're giving this man money, he's