John,

This summer, the political environment has been changing fast. But there’s one thing that never changes: Donald Trump’s profiteering off of his political apparatus.

We’ve been calling Trump out on his corrupt funneling of taxpayer money to his properties since 2017, and we sued him on his first full day in office for violations of the Emoluments Clauses of the Constitution.

And all these years later, we’re still not moving on or forgetting about Trump’s blatant corruption.

When the recent campaign spending reporting deadline passed, we got right to work tallying up all the political spending at Donald Trump's properties during this election cycle, because we wanted to know if he was still using his campaign and his political power for personal profit.

Spoiler alert: he is.

Campaigns and political groups have spent more than $1.8 million at Trump properties so far this election cycle—and Trump’s own political operation, which consists of his campaign, fundraising committees and super PACs, has driven the bulk of the political spending, paying more than $1.2 million to Trump properties.

But it’s not just Trump’s own political apparatus that’s providing the payday—Senate campaigns and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have spent more than $366,000 at Trump properties, and House campaigns have spent more than $256,000.

After Trump himself, Senate candidates Bernie Moreno and Kari Lake were the two runners up in funneling the most money to Trump properties.

You can read all about the spending at Trump properties—and how it’s part of a long-term pattern—in the new report on our website.

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CREW