Reuters is reporting the single least-surprising piece of campaign news this season:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has run an unusually cheap campaign in part by not paying at least 10 top staffers, consultants and advisers, some of whom are no longer with the campaign, according to a review of federal campaign finance filings.
Those who have so far not been paid, the filings show, include recently departed campaign manager Paul Manafort, California state director Tim Clark, communications director Michael Caputo and a pair of senior aides who left the campaign in June to immediately go to work for a Trump Super PAC.
While this should surprise precisely no one who’s paid the least bit of attention to Himself’s business career, it is far from the norm in the business of running political campaigns, particularly those playing in the biggest of big leagues.
Among the stiffees listed are Manafort, Rick Wiley, Barry Bennett, Rick Gates and the latest hand on the good ship Himself, Ms. Conway.
One of the 10 who were unpaid, Michael Caputo, told a Buffalo radio station in June after he resigned from the campaign, that he was not volunteering. Rather, he said he just had not gotten paid. Caputo confirmed to Reuters on Thursday that the Trump campaign has still not paid his invoices.
So, how’s it feel, Team T? You starting to understand what those cabinet makers and maintenance contractors in Atlantic City are so pissed about now?
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