A pro-Trump super PAC paid Melania Trump $155,000 in 2021, according to newly certified personal financial disclosure report -- prompting attacks from some Trump critics.
First Lady Melania Trump speaks to Trump supporters before her husband President Donald Trump gives a campaign speech just four days before Election Day outside of Raymond James Stadium, Oct. 29, 2020, in Tampa, Fla.wife Melania Trump $155,000 in 2021, a newly certified personal financial disclosure report from the former president revealed Thursday -- prompting attacks from some Trump critics.
The super PAC's filing showed two payments to the firm -- one which came on Dec. 2, 2021, in the amount of $30,000, and the next payment the following day, in the amount of $125,000. But Trump's financial disclosure shows the super PAC's payment of $155,000 on Dec. 2, 2021, directly to Melania Trump.
"A billionaire using donor money to pay personal legal fees, and now paying his wife more than 2x what the average American makes just to pick some tableware," the former New Jersey governorThe Make America Great Again, Again super PAC has since dissolved, transferring $8.9 million to a new Trump-aligned super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc.
Melania Trump has been absent from the campaign trail since her husband launched his third presidential bid. She previously told Fox News in May that the former president "has my support."
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