Trump's Former Bodyguard Receiving $15k/mo From GOP "Slush Fund" - Polidicks

[url]https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/21/trumps-ex-bodyguard-makes-15000-a-month-from-a-gop-slush-fund.html[/url] [quote]When President Donald Trump's longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller decided to leave his White House job last fall, many in the West Wing wondered how the president would manage without his personal security chief-turned-confidant, who had been working for Trump nearly 20 years. As it turns out, Schiller didn't go very far. Within weeks of leaving his job as director of Oval Office operations, Schiller's private security firm, KS Global Group, began collecting $15,000 a month for "security services" from the Republican National Committee. According to an RNC official, Schiller is being paid for security consulting on the site selection process for the 2020 Republican National Convention. Schiller's fee comes out of the RNC's convention fund, not its campaign fund, the official noted. Campaign finance watchdog groups, however, were quick to cry foul. "These sorts of party accounts are notorious for being operated as slush funds — lightly regulated and ripe for abuse," said Stephen Spaulding, former special counsel at the Federal Election Commission and now chief of strategy at the nonpartisan advocacy group Common Cause. Since October, the RNC has paid Schiller's firm a total of $75,000, according to its latest disclosure reports. The most recent payment was on Jan. 31. If the RNC continues paying Schiller at this rate until the 2020 Republican National Convention, his total fees will likely be north of $500,000.[/quote] [quote]Trump's bodyguard's firm is getting a fat payout from the RNC and its deep-pocketed donors," said Spaulding, who noted that individual contributors "can give a whopping $101,700 per year to the RNC's convention account." The same rules apply to the Democratic National Committee's convention fund. Already, Schiller's $15,000 monthly "site selection consulting fee" is more than he made working in the White House, where his annual salary was $165,000. It's also more than Schiller made working for the Trump campaign, which reported paying KS Global Group $10,000 a month starting in July of 2016.[/quote] $15k per month in "consulting fees" to Trump's ex bodyguard. I'm sure that's completely innocuous, and not "hush money" of any sort.

I just find it funny how years of dystopian fiction about shady government practices and corruption did absolutely nothing to avert us from this path.

Is this the same bodyguard who said he didn't know what Trump was up to that one night in the Ritz Moscow?

[QUOTE=The Vman;53149730]Is this the same bodyguard who said he didn't know what Trump was up to that one night in the Ritz Moscow?[/QUOTE] Yup. The ex-bodyguard who revealed that he wasn't at Trump's door, but claims to have "turned down" an offer to send prostitutes to Trump's room at the Ritz Moscow on the night of the "piss tape," has been receiving $15,000 of loosely monitored and poorly regulated money from the GOP for largely unspecified "site consulting fees" every month. This man is a witness in the largest criminal investigation in US history, and the subjects of that investigation are funneling up to $180,000 a year to his account. [editline]/[/editline] Typo: corrected $780,000 to $180,000.

I've always wondered just how many people are being paid to keep all this Trump shit silent. Conspiracy theorists are led to believe that with enough money you can silent the whole world on dumb bullshit like flat earth or paid actors, but with the clusterfuck that is the Trump campaign/administration/election/whatever there are so many ways to fucking get caught it really puts into perspective how true evil works vs fiction.

[QUOTE=Da Big Man;53149869]I've always wondered just how many people are being paid to keep all this Trump shit silent. Conspiracy theorists are led to believe that with enough money you can silent the whole world on dumb bullshit like flat earth or paid actors, but with the clusterfuck that is the Trump campaign/administration/election/whatever there are so many ways to fucking get caught it really puts into perspective how true evil works vs fiction.[/QUOTE] I wish I worked around or with trump, he seems to be physically unable to stop being a fucking goober, seems like an easy way to get hush money.

[QUOTE=milktree;53149555]I just find it funny how years of dystopian fiction about shady government practices and corruption did absolutely nothing to avert us from this path.[/QUOTE] "To the ruling class, speculative fiction is not a warning; it is a blueprint."

[QUOTE=Chris Morris;53150055]"To the ruling class, speculative fiction is not a warning; it is a blueprint."[/QUOTE] Where is that quote from?

Fuck I wish I could get paid $15,000 a month for work I'm doing 2 years in advance of the actual event. His "consultation" must be bloody good dust to be so valuable. It's actually more than 2 years in advance when you think about how long he's been getting paid.

[QUOTE=Da Big Man;53149869]I've always wondered just how many people are being paid to keep all this Trump shit silent. Conspiracy theorists are led to believe that with enough money you can silent the whole world on dumb bullshit like flat earth or paid actors, but with the clusterfuck that is the Trump campaign/administration/election/whatever there are so many ways to fucking get caught it really puts into perspective how true evil works vs fiction.[/QUOTE] What I wonder is why are the conspiracy theorists not going mental about an [I]actual[/I] conspiracy going on right under their noses? All of this stuff is so fishy, you'd think they could stop yelling about flat earths for a moment.

[QUOTE=Recurracy;53151134]What I wonder is why are the conspiracy theorists not going mental about an [I]actual[/I] conspiracy going on right under their noses? All of this stuff is so fishy, you'd think they could stop yelling about flat earths for a moment.[/QUOTE] Because the "deep state" is so much more interesting to them than some slush hush money. Besides, I'd think a majority of them are right wing wackos. Just look at pizzagate and Benghazi. Why rant and rave about Trump, the man who will deliver them from the evil lizard overlords, when you've got... well, evil lizard overlords to go off about.