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  Trump’s Inauguration Paid Trump’s Company — With Ivanka in the Middle
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Last EditedIndyGeorgia  Dec 14, 2018 07:29pm
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AuthorIlya Marritz, WNYC, and Justin Elliott, ProPublica
News DateFriday, December 14, 2018 06:20:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionWhen it came out this year that President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised and spent unprecedented amounts, people wondered where all that money went.

It turns out one beneficiary was Trump himself.

The inauguration paid the Trump Organization for rooms, meals and event space at the company’s Washington hotel, according to interviews as well as internal emails and receipts reviewed by WNYC and ProPublica.

During the planning, Ivanka Trump, the president-elect’s eldest daughter and a senior executive with the Trump Organization, was involved in negotiating the price the hotel charged the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee for venue rentals. A top inaugural planner emailed Ivanka and others at the company to “express my concern” that the hotel was overcharging for its event spaces, worrying of what would happen “when this is audited.”
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