President Trump has held only one campaign rally since the pandemic swept across the country in March. It not only failed to fill the arena in Tulsa, Okla., but it was also very expensive. New federal filings submitted late Monday show that Mr. Trump’s campaign paid more than $2.2 million in event, facility and audiovisual costs in June — a month in which the Tulsa rally was his campaign’s only major public event. The new filings also detail how Mr. Trump and the Republican National Committee continue to patronize Mr. Trump’s businesses with campaign contributions, spending nearly $4 million on Trump-owned properties since the beginning of 2019. The practice, which some campaign watchdogs characterize as self-dealing, injected over $500,000 into the Trump family businesses in recent months, records show.

Source: New York Times July 21, 2020 17:58 UTC