Former president Donald Trump keeps getting handouts from the Republican National Committee.
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The Republican National Committee spent more than $175,000 at Mar-a-Lago on May 12 for a venue rental and catering, according to a financial disclosure filed on Sunday.
Donald Trump retained a 100% interest in his private Palm Beach resort when he became president.
The RNC now has spent at least $2.6 million at Trump’s businesses, 98.5% of which occurred after Trump became the presumptive GOP nominee for president in May 2016.
The $175,000 was for the portion of the RNC’s spring donor retreat that it re-located to Mar-a-Lago from another venue in April, an RNC spokesperson told Forbes.
“Many G.O.P. donors liked visiting Mar-a-Lago,” a Republican involved in planning the event told the Washington Post when it first reported the change in plans this March.
Trump lived at Mar-a-Lago from January through May, when he migrated north to one of his…
