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Anonymous ID: cefe6f May 7, 2019, 1:11 p.m. No.6439450   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9478 >>9496 >>9506 >>9582 >>9664

Trump breaks with key loyalist David Bossie over 'deceptive' fundraising

 

https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1125854790636978176

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trump-breaks-with-key-loyalist-david-bossie-over-deceptive-fundraising

 

President Trump broke with his longtime supporter David Bossie on Tuesday, with Trump's 2020 campaign warning of "deceptive" fundraising in a stinging rebuke of a group run by Bossie.

 

Bossie served as Trump's deputy campaign manager in 2016 and interviewed with Trump in December for the position of White House chief of staff, which Trump ultimately awarded to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.

 

On Sunday, the Campaign Legal Center and Axios reported that a Bossie-run group called the Presidential Coalition raised $18.5 million in 2017 and 2018, but spent just $425,000 on political activities.

 

Another $15 million was spent on fundraising, salaries, and purchases of Bossie's book Trump's Enemies, which he co-authored with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

 

The Trump campaign issued the following statement Tuesday afternoon in which the president called for an investigation into Bossie's group:

 

"President Trump’s campaign condemns any organization that deceptively uses the President’s name, likeness, trademarks, or branding and confuses voters. There is no excuse for any group, including ones run by people who claim to be part of our ‘coalition,’ to suggest they directly support President Trump’s re-election or any other candidates, when in fact their actions show they are interested in filling their own pockets with money from innocent Americans’ paychecks, and sadly, retirements. We encourage the appropriate authorities to investigate all alleged scam groups for potential illegal activities….