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Wrestlenomics: Were Vince McMahon's Trump Foundation payments unrecorded WWE expenses?

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🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

WWE stated Tuesday it found an additional $5 million in unrecorded company expenses related to two payments Vince McMahon made in 2007 and 2009. WWE gave a total of $5 million to the Trump Foundation in the two same years, according to IRS filings.

Plus, Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo discuss the differences in WWE programming since Triple H took over creative and what effect that may or may not have on business.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of Russell Amics Radio. I'm Brandon Therson

0:03.9

broadcasting live and on demand. From Buffalo, New York for today is Sunday, August the 14th, 2022.

0:12.8

And I'm joined as always from my immediate south, not always, because you weren't here last week.

0:18.8

I was not, I was in Binghamton. You summarily and unprofessionally had other commitments,

0:24.7

but you're here today, Chris Culler. Hello. Hello. Good morning everybody. Those you're watching us live and

0:31.7

yeah, it's a fun weekend. Last night was the 20th anniversary of Empire State Wrestling. I was

0:37.4

the ringing answer. You were in the back being the producer. Yes, I had my, I had my agent headset on

0:45.0

so which was really only useful of, you know, a handful of times. But yeah,

0:51.6

I, we produced, I produced the, the agent did some stuff and that was at Buffalo Riverworks.

0:57.2

In, in real Buffalo, New York, very few yes, W shows have been in real Buffalo. But yes,

1:03.9

a, a, a good time. Any highlights you would like to point out?

1:07.6

Well, we had the alumni from the last 20 years, the SW is Lumberjack. I thought that was a lot of fun.

1:14.3

Jake, something in Kevin Blackwood was a really, really good main event.

1:18.4

Yep. Speaking of main event, the main event to tag team, the guys who do the circus gimmick,

1:23.2

they were there and they had a really good match with two infinity and beyond. Rachel O'Learying

1:29.1

might be the nicest person I've ever met in my life. She's super nice. She's a bit overall,

1:34.1

a very, very, very good show. Yeah, that'll be on IWTV soon, I believe. Yeah. Okay. Well,

1:42.7

what do you want to talk about today? Well, we're going to, we're going to talk about Trump.

1:48.4

Trump? Yeah. What does that have to do with the rest of the dynamics? Well, Vince McMahon and

1:54.5

just just trying to shoehorn in some clickbait here because there's big Trump news as always

1:58.8

and as, as, especially this week. Well, Vince McMahon and Donald Trump had done business together.

2:06.5

Yeah. And then that business has come to light as a recent as we're learning more about

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