Hi everybody I'm Brittany Lewis of reporter here at Forbes

joining me now is my Forbes colleague staff writer Zack Everson

Zach everson Zach thanks for coming on

Thanks for having me out again, Brittany, appreciate it.

The RNC wrapped up in Milwaukee this week and you are reporting, quote,

yet another Trump is converting donor funds into personal income.

Talk to us about who.

This time it is Lara Trump as we know she is the co-chair of the RNC,

which is the number two position, having just been voted in there a few months ago.

And looking through the latest campaign finance reports, you see that the RNC is paying her what looks like it will be an annual salary of $163,000.

So, you know, certainly something that looks competitive and a fair salary,

assuming she's doing the job that she was elected to do, but it's also, you know, just

another example of a Trump family member pocketing GOP donor cash.

So what is her specific history of being paid donor funds?

So in this case, this is the first time her name has actually showed up in FEC records as a recipient.

Does not mean it's the first time she's received donor funds though.

Back in 2020, Huffpost reported that the Trump campaign was paying her along with Kim Gilfoil salaries but they were not being paid directly

instead they were kind of being paid as like subcontractors almost the money was going to then

campaign manager Brad Parsckels

company which was then in turn passing the money out to or or Trump and

Kimpielfoil. I do want to take a couple steps back here and aside from being the daughter-in-law of the

former president who exactly is Laura Trump?

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