Trump’s Ink: Her rare speech to LGBTKI organization of Republicans – “Ethically questionable” her six-digit fee

Or it’s very visible, but the former First Lady of the United States has decided to lift her precious self off the couch and contribute to the election battle that Donald Trump is fighting. And the time he did, he received a six-digit fee – an extremely unusual move for a candidate’s wife. The former First Lady, as CNN writes, this year spoke at two political fundraisers and received $237,500. “It’s a real mystery who really cut the check,” writes CNN. Charles Moran, chairman of Log Cabin Republicans – the organization that advocates conservative LGBTK+ people – told CNN earlier this month that the team did not put the money for Trump’s speech. Election campaign funding and government ethics experts say that the remuneration to a candidate’s wife in an election period is unusual, morally questionable and should at least be recorded in official documents. If the organization did not actually make the payment to Melania Trump, then it is put into question the ex-President’s posse as it conflicts with the ethics rules, because it should mention the sponsor who paid Melania Trump and not only where she spoke, Virginia Canter, chief ethics advisor to the organization Citizens for Response and Ethics said. According to the records show, Melania Trump also received $250,000 for a Log Cabin event in December 2022, one of three payments of $250,000 or more received for speech that month, immediately after the former president announced that he would claim his re-election. Melanie received the $155,000 sum, for a speech she gave to Palm Beach, Florida in December 2021, before Trump was nominated. “She was so disconnected from this campaign and so absent that I could see her say: “If I’m going to spend my time, I’m going to get paid for it,” said Stephanie Grisham, a former spokesperson for the Trump White House and leading adviser to Melania Trump, who has become a critic of the former president. “Even when we were in the White House, she was always so worried about people making money from her, because she thought it was money she should have earned herself”.