There’s already questions about why el Trumpo was giving illegal contributions to Pam Bondi right before she dropped the investigation into Trump University, but it looks like he did something similar to Charlie Crist too.
From the Huffington Post:
Donald Trump contributed 10 times as much money as was allowed by law to the 2006 gubernatorial campaign of Florida’s then-Attorney General Charlie Crist, according to a Huffington Post review of state campaign finance records.
The donations that exceeded the limit were all made on the same day through companies Trump owns. Trump did not disclose the connection, and regulators did not identify the gifts as coming from Trump. All told, Trump made nine contributions of $500 to Crist’s campaign on Aug. 25, 2005, for a total of $4,500. At the time, the maximum allowable donation in Florida from an individual or corporation was $500, a sum that Trump had already given Crist’s campaign as a personal donation in June of that year.
HuffPost first identified three of the nine companies last month, and has since identified another six Trump companies that made contributions over the legal limit. “It’s pretty clear in this case that Trump was secretly buying influence without regard to the rules,” said Brendan Fischer, associate counsel at the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center.
Maybe this is perfectly innocent. Maybe he was just getting orange-tanning tips from Charlie Crist? In any case, I bet there’s way more shady stuff like this that news outlets are waiting patiently to expose as the campaign wears on…