Melania’s buddy Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
President Trump’s inaugural committee paid nearly $26 million to an event planning firm started by an adviser to the first lady, Melania Trump, while donating $5 million — less than expected — to charity, according to tax filings released on Thursday.
The nonprofit group that oversaw Mr. Trump’s inauguration and surrounding events in January 2017, the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee, had been under pressure from liberal government watchdog groups to reveal how it spent the record $107 million it had raised largely from wealthy donors and corporations…
…the mandatory tax return it filed with the Internal Revenue Service revealed heavy spending on administrative and logistical expenses associated with planning and executing several days’ worth of events for donors and supporters around Mr. Trump’s inaugural ceremonies…
The company that received the biggest payment — $26 million — was WIS Media Partners of Marina del Rey, Calif. Records show that the firm was created in December 2016, about six weeks before the inauguration, and its founder, according to a person familiar with the firm, was Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a longtime friend of Mrs. Trump…
Trump chumps who continue to be impressed by their fake president truly astound me with their gullibility. If they continue to applaud phony expense, gleefully watch taxpayer dollars hurled around like so much confetti – well, I can give them a lead to shares in a magical bridge in Brooklyn. Real cheap.
Eideard 
“A President’s Day Without a Real President” https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-presidents-day-without-a-real-president “…We have entered an age of unreason; an American dark age. A major political party has fallen into decay, seized full on by extremists and overrun by racism, tribalism, greed, xenophobia and demographic panic. It is no longer a question of whether their president can ever be our president, and speak to the nation with moral authority. He can’t. His legitimacy is too much in doubt and his character too absent. The only question is whether the majority can hang onto its collective outrage long enough to drive the neo-Nazis, anti-modernists, haters and fear-mongers who have organized under the Trump banner back into the shadows.”
“Trump slowly pushing US toward kleptocracy” By J. Bradford DeLong, former deputy assistant US Treasury secretary and a professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1088900.shtml
Oath of office of the President of the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States
Company run by Trump associate has received $75,000 from RNC https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/company-run-by-trump-associate-has-received-75000-from-rnc/2018/02/21/80a0825a-1733-11e8-b681-2d4d462a1921_story.html?utm_term=.88d2f13e4686
Trump’s former bodyguard makes $15,000 a month from a GOP ‘slush fund’ https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/21/trumps-ex-bodyguard-makes-15000-a-month-from-a-gop-slush-fund.html “It pays to be in Donald Trump’s circle of trust. He has a long history of taking good care of people who do his bidding and cutting off those who don’t,” said Dave Levinthal of the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity, a watchdog group.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff later cooperated with federal prosecutors in Manhattan who opened an investigation into whether Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee misspent some of the record $107m it raised from donations. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/us/politics/trump-inauguration-stephanie-winston-wolkoff.html
Now she’s written what’s described as an “explosive” memoir detailing her 15-year friendship with Melania Trump, some of which reportedly includes secretly recorded derogatory comments she made about her husband’s adult children and even Donald Trump himself.
The book, “Melania & Me”, will be released on September 1st. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/25/melania-trump-taped-ivanka-donald-stephanie-winston-wolkoff-book-report
In Sworn Testimony in Inauguration Scandal Case, Donald Trump Jr. Made Apparently False Statements https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/04/in-sworn-testimony-in-inauguration-scandal-case-donald-trump-jr-made-apparently-false-statements/ (includes video)
On February 11, Donald Trump Jr. sat in front of his computer for a video deposition. He swore to tell the truth. But documents and a video obtained by Mother Jones—and recent legal filings—indicate that his testimony on key points was not accurate.
The matter at hand was a lawsuit filed in 2020 against Donald Trump’s inauguration committee and the Trump Organization by Karl Racine, the attorney general of Washington, DC. The suit claims that the inauguration committee misused charitable funds to enrich the Trump family. As the attorney general put it, the lawsuit “alleges that the Inaugural Committee, a nonprofit corporation, coordinated with the Trump family to grossly overpay for event space in the Trump International Hotel. Although the Inaugural Committee was aware that it was paying far above market rates, it never considered less expensive alternatives, and even paid for space on days when it did not hold events. The Committee also improperly used non-profit funds to throw a private party [at the Trump Hotel] for the Trump family costing several hundred thousand dollars.” In short, the attorney general has accused the Trump clan and its company of major grifting, and he is looking to recover the amounts paid to the Trump Hotel so he can direct those funds to real charitable purposes.