Yesterday, federal prosecutors in New York issued subpoenas to the Donald Trump inaugural
committee seeking documents that could help explain how he was able to raise a $107,000,000
more than any other president in the history of the United States for his inaugural parties
and galas and all of the events surrounding his inauguration.
I'm $107,000,000 this group raised.
And now thanks to these subpoenas they're going to have to show where every single penny
of that came from.
The, uh, documents or the subpoena, excuse me, uh, seeks an array of documents including
all information related to inaugural donors, vendors, contractors, bank accounts of the
inaugural committee, and any information related to foreign contributors to the committee.
Because here's the thing, only us, residents and legal citizens are allowed to donate to
an inaugural committee.
If you accept money from any foreign entity, corporation, person, government, whatever,
you've broken the law and they wouldn't be issuing these subpoenas, these federal prosecutors
up in New York if they didn't believe that they were taking foreign money.
Honestly, they wouldn't have been able to even get these subpoenas if they weren't able
to kind of go ahead and show that there's probable cause that these guys were taking
in for and money and no, I'm not just talking about Russia here.
There's good evidence that the inaugural committee may have been taking money from the Middle
East to help pay for some of these events, you know, and possibly as the subpoenas show
possibly buying a little bit of influence with the Trump administration.
Uh, here's something from the La Times right here.
It says, the document indicates that prosecutors are investigating crimes related to conspiracy
to defraud the United States mail fraud, false statements, wire fraud, and money laundering.
That's no short list there.
The subpoena seeks information related to broad topics, including information about
benefits provided to top donors, training documents for fundraisers and information
related to any payments made directly by donors to vendors, which is also not something that
is allowed.
Everything has to go through the inaugural committee, although we do have enough available
evidence today, documents have already come out showing that donors did directly pay vendors.
Now, here's what's interesting about this, obviously this is another legal headache for
Donald Trump as his company, his administration, his campaign and his charity are all also
under investigation, so sure, let's go ahead and throw in the inaugural committee to go
ahead and get that hat trick of all you know, everything this man has ever touched is now
under potential criminal investigation, but his kids were also heavily involved in this
as we're members of the Trump organization, which is likely where this case stemmed from
because let's not forget, these are the federal prosecutors up in New York.
They're the ones who have been looking at the Trump Organization.
They have talked to Michael Cohen.
They have seen emails and now it has evolved from just the Trump Organization where members
were coordinating with the inaugural committee.
Some of them even served on it to now focusing on the inaugural committee.
This is a huge evolution in this investigation and it shows that there is more to it than
even the prosecutors and investigators had originally thought they wouldn't be going
down this avenue if there was not a good chance that there was criminal activity on behalf
of the inaugural committee and that is what these subpoenas are hoping to find out, and
once they get these financial records, it's going to be a lot easier for them to trace
the dollars, find the donors, and find out if they were doing this to gain favor with
the president or more importantly, if they were even legally allowed to make the contribution
in the first place.