The Donald Increased Trump Tower Rent Once Donations Began Pouring In

Donald Trump’s campaign is taking up more space inside Trump Tower in NY – and paying a lot more in rent.

As The New York Times pointed out in June, the Trump campaign spent a fifth of its resources on Trump-affiliated services in May.

Trump increased the rent his campaign paid to his own building in proportion to the increase in donations that he was receiving.

A prominent RNC member told the Huffington Post, “If I was a donor, I’d want answers”.

The website analyzed filings with the Federal Election Commission and found rent payments had dramatically spiked at Trump Tower, which the candidate owns, although it’s not clear why. If they don’t have more staff, and they’re paying five times more?

Trump has also paid his golf courses and restaurants over $200,000 since beginning fundraising efforts and the individual payment amounts appear to be generally higher than they were when he was loaning money to his campaign himself. “That’s the kind of stuff I’d read and try to make an (attack) ad out of it”. However, in a statement to The Huffington Post, it said that it had expanded into larger quarters. How many of those actually worked in Trump Tower can not be determined from the FEC filings, although typically only a small fraction of a presidential campaign’s staff works in the headquarters building.

The Trump campaign did not respond to HuffPo’s request for comments.

“We calculated the rent based on the average rent per square foot in the area”, the campaign said in a statement provided to CNN.

Clinton’s campaign is paying around $212,000 (£160.630) a month for its 80,000 square feet office space in Brooklyn. Trump hosted rallies at both Florida golf courses ahead of the state’s primary in March.

In June, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported 20 percent of Trump’s campaign funds went to Trump-owned businesses, including $423,000 to his Palm Beach resort Mar-A-Lago and $349,000 to his airline, Tag Air.

“Once donors were writing checks to the campaign, Trump said, ‘Wow, I can get more money personally out of this, ‘” Kaine said at a campaign stop in Denver. And in recent months, as he’s shifted from a self-funded campaign to one paid for with other people’s money, he seems to have smelled a profit potential and pounced.