dagblog - Comments for "Coup-de-Grace and altered States" http://dagblog.com/link/re-coup-ing-losses-altered-state-21794 Comments for "Coup-de-Grace and altered States" en And that part about the 19.5% http://dagblog.com/comment/233284#comment-233284 <a id="comment-233284"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/233281#comment-233281">on just one point in the</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>And that part about the 19.5% sale of the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rosneft-privatisation-insight-idUSKBN1582OH">Russian state owned oil company</a>?</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 02 Feb 2017 02:25:19 +0000 barefooted comment 233284 at http://dagblog.com on just one point in the http://dagblog.com/comment/233281#comment-233281 <a id="comment-233281"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/re-coup-ing-losses-altered-state-21794">Coup-de-Grace and altered States</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>on just one point in the theory:</p> <p> From <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/donald-trump-administration.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Opinion&amp;module=Trending&amp;version=Full&amp;region=Marginalia&amp;pgtype=article">New York Times First 100 days Briefing updated Feb. 1. 6:54pm</a></p> <p>​<em>■ Why did President Trump already file to run for re-election? To make sure the money still flowing into his campaign does not have to be refunded.</em></p> <p>[....]</p> <blockquote> <p>Trump files for re-election — to hold on to his campaign cash</p> <p>On the day of his inauguration, President Trump <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/569/201701209041436569/201701209041436569.pdf">filed paperwork</a> to declare his candidacy in the 2020 election, but it wasn’t necessarily a show of supreme confidence — more like a grasp for cash.</p> <p><a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00580100/1146165/">Financial disclosures</a> filed with the Federal Election Commission show that a lucrative December made the move an accounting necessity. The Trump campaign ended the year with $7.6 million in the bank and no debt, so any funds raised over $5,000 by the campaign in 2017 <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/11/100.3">would have be returned</a> unless Mr. Trump registered as a candidate for 2020. He obviously was not prepared tooffer refunds.</p> <p>And the money has kept flowing. The campaign brought in more than $4 million in <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00580100/1146165/sa/20A">expense refunds</a>, mostly from members of the media and the Secret Service for the seats they used on his campaign planes. This arrangement is typical — campaigns are required to charge the Secret Service and the press a fair rate. What’s unusual is that most of the campaign’s air travel expenses, nearly $9 million, were paid to companies owned by Trump.</p> <p>There is one expenditure that has not slowed: Making America wear red hats again. The Trump campaign, along with two fundraising committees that raise money jointly with the Republican Party, brought in $6.5 million in contributions in the last month of 2016. More than a third of that was spent on on hats, mugs, stickers and other collateral.</p> </blockquote> <p>[....] </p> </div></div></div> Thu, 02 Feb 2017 02:05:40 +0000 artappraiser comment 233281 at http://dagblog.com