I can’t imagine how this $100,000 payment for McCarthy’s used lip balm is not illegal.
Shouldn’t the amount be commensurate with the actual value of, let’s say, a new lip balm? $1.49?
Did the Republican National Committee own the lip balm? How did they come into its possession? Did McCarthy gift it to them? Or sell it to them for some other undisclosed price (say, increased funding for his next campaign, perhaps a few dollars short of $100K?)
To me this seems like the inverse of selling something to a political figure for much less than it actual value in order to curry favor. Say a $100,000 car for T___p but he pays only $1, and presto! a nice multi-million $ no-bid government contract.
Also stinks of being a form of money laundering.
Rotten to the core, the lot of them.
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