According to Donald Trump, one of the things that sets Donald Trump apart from the rest of the presidential candidates is that Donald Trump cannot be bought. For instance, as a billionaire (ten times over, he tells us!), he don't need no Super PAC, whereas the other candidates are out sucking up to billionaires (Donald Trump
is a billionaire) for big Super PAC donations. But as it turns out,
Trump does have ties to a Super PAC supporting him—the Make America Great Again PAC.
A consultant for Make America Great Again is also a vendor for Trump's presidential campaign, and he's received more than $56,000 in business from the campaign so far. Said consultant/vendor, Mike Ciletti, also repeatedly visited Trump's campaign offices in the months before the PAC's July 1 launch. But if Ciletti's dual role as PAC consultant and campaign vendor isn't convincing, there's this:
Over the summer, Trump attended at least two events for the Make America Great Again PAC: one in Manhattan in July at the home of a woman who is a longtime Trump business associate, as first reported by Politico, and another in August at the New Jersey beachfront mansion of Seryl and Charles Kushner, his daughter Ivanka’s in-laws, as CNN reported. [...]
Lewandowski said the two gatherings that Trump attended were not fundraisers, calling the party at the Kushner estate “a family event.”
When asked whether Trump knew the receptions were organized by the super PAC, Lewandowski did not respond directly. “They were both just a meet-and-greet,” he said. “He gave brief remarks and then left.”
They weren't fundraisers, just events at which people were told how they could contribute to the Make America Great Again PAC. Trump made brief remarks at a meet-and-greet and then left, and one of them was a family event, also, too. And the family member holding the family event happened to give $100,000 to the Make America Great Again PAC, although according to Trump, "I know nothing about [Super PACs raising for him], because I have nothing to do with them. I don’t even know the people running them." All just a weird series of coincidences, I guess.