I need to talk to you about this Trump inaugural committee.

It's been subpoenaed for documents, a committee.

Earlier this week, we started to get these reports that federal prosecutors were investigating

the president's inaugural committee.

The way they set up their inaugural committee, how much they raised, how they seemingly

raised it, was really a recipe for corruption from the very beginning.

And when I heard all this, I knew I wanted to get Ilya Maritz on the line.

And you've been trying to figure out what happened to this inauguration for, like, how

long now?

Uh, about a year.

He's the co-host of the Trump Inc podcast.

And he's been thinking about the inauguration ever since he heard how much money the committee

raised.

$107 million.

At the time, I actually didn't know how much an inauguration costs.

And then I started comparing it with, like, the wedding of, like, Harry and Meghan and

other kind of, like, big ticket things, which cost, like, a fraction of what Donald Trump's

inauguration did.

And then I started talking with some earlier inauguration planners.

And they were like, yeah, this is double what the next most expensive inauguration cost.

And they couldn't even figure out how you could get to that number of $107 million.

Okay, so do we know where that money went?

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