Trump Ignores Deadline for Personal Financial Disclosure to F.E.C.

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Former President Donald J. Trump has a minor addition to his mounting pile of legal challenges after he failed to meet the deadline to disclose his personal financial holdings.

 

But the threatened initial penalty — a meager $200 — is the latest sign of how weak federal enforcement of campaign laws has become.

 

The personal financial disclosure will eventually provide the first look at Mr. Trump’s post-presidential businesses, including his holdings in Truth Social, the social media company he helped create.

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/us/politics/trump-campaign-fec-filing.html

 

 

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[ozimoron]

I'm shocked. After promising to reveal his taxes "after the audit" is done for years with no intention of ever doing so did anyone think he was going to meet this requirement?

[heybruce]

It's on his "to do" list.  Along with showing his tax returns, getting Mexico to pay for the wall, returning stolen documents, coming up with a better, cheaper healthcare plan than the Affordable Care Act....

[ozimoron]

Truth Social whistleblower now works as $16-an-hour Starbucks barista

 

As the Post previously reported, Wilkerson turned over "150,000 emails, contracts and other internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and investigators in Florida and New York."

 

That report added, "Promoted as the centerpiece of Trump’s post-presidential business ambitions, the company had marketed itself as a budding media empire, with enterprises planned in social media, video streaming, live events and online payments — a powerful rival not just to Twitter but Disney, Google and Amazon,. But inside the company,

 

Wilkerson said, those plans gave way to bitter infighting, technical failures and a chaotic jockeying for power among Trump allies that undermined its potential and left some employees crying at their desks."

 

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-truth-social-2659929792/

Edited April 29, 2023 by ozimoron

[Chomper Higgot]

As they say, old dogs stick to their old tricks.

[Tug]

Quell surprise about what you would expect he will probably try to milk it for free publicity 

[candide]

Nothing to hide, etc...