The feds in New York have begun a new investigation into Trump’s inauguration. They want to see if people were ‘paying for access’ like Hillary used to do with the Clinton Foundation:
DAILY MAIL – Federal prosecutors in New York are examining whether President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee misspent some of the $107 million it raised, it was revealed on Thursday.
The investigation is also looking into whether some of the top donors to Trump’s crowning event gave money in exchange for access to his administration, policy concessions or to influence the administration, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Money in exchange for political favors could violate federal corruption laws. There could also be a violation of federal law if funds were diverted from the inaugural committee, which was registered as a nonprofit.
Sarah Sanders responded to the investigation:
‘That doesn’t have anything to do with the president or the first lady,’ White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Thursday night. ‘The biggest thing the president did in his engagement for the inauguration was to come here and raise his hand and take the oath of office. The president was focused on the transition during that time and not on any of the planning.’
So why the investigation all of a sudden?
The investigation came partly out of materials seized in the federal probe of Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen’s business dealings, the paper reported.
In April raids of Cohen’s home, office and hotel room, federal agents obtained a recorded conversation between Cohen and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former adviser to Melania Trump, who worked on the inaugural events.
Wolkoff, in their conversation, expressed concern about how the inaugural committee was spending its money.
Wolkoff, a former Vogue staffer who is one of the first lady’s longtime friends, left the administration in February after reports her firm, WIS Media Partners, received $26 million in payments to help plan the inauguration.
She was an unpaid adviser to the first lady.
It’s unknown when the conversation between Wolkoff and Cohen took place or why it was recorded.
According to the committee’s tax filings, Wolkoff’s WIS Media Partners was formed 45 days before the inauguration and got paid the most of any vendor for its work.
You can accuse me of ‘whataboutism’ all you want, but this new ‘investigation’ would be a lot easier to swallow if Obama didn’t get a virtual free pass for nearly everything he did – even when his campaign broke campaign finance laws.
Obama got what amounts a slap on the hand and Trump is being investigated up one side and down the other.
Look, if there was any impropriety I’m all for that being rectified. But with all of the negative attention and investigations Trump has been getting during his entire presidency, it just feels like it’s getting silly at this point.
Democrats in the House are threatening sweeping investigations. The new Democrat AG in NY is threatening to bring the police state after Trump and everyone in his orbit. I mean c’mon, it’s at ridiculous levels.