PALM
BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump mixed reelection business
with pleasure during a weekend stop at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida,
attending a fundraiser on Saturday evening expected to raise $10
million for his campaign and the Republican National Committee.
The
event was believed to be his most expensive fundraiser ever, with
invitations going to donors who gave $580,600 per couple, according to
The Washington Post, which obtained an invitation to the event at the
Palm Beach estate of billionaire investor Nelson Peltz.
Pro-Trump groups have been shattering fundraising records on the path toward a goal of raising $1 billion this election cycle.
Advocacy
groups that have sought campaign finance reform said the Supreme Court
paved the way for such fundraising hauls by striking down in 2014 the
limit on the total amount of money an individual could give to all
political party committees in a two-year election cycle.
“The
ability of Trump to raise these astronomical amounts of influence money
from billionaires and multimillionaires is a direct result of the
Supreme Court’s utter failure to understand the nation’s campaign
finance laws or the implications of its decision,” said Democracy 21
President Fred Wertheimer in an op-ed published in Medium.
In
that 5-4 decision the Supreme Court found that limits on the total
amount of money donors can give to all candidates, committees and
political parties were unconstitutional.
Sen.
Bernie Sanders has criticized some of his fellow Democratic
presidential candidates for accepting campaign donations from the
extremely wealthy, questioning whether those who accept the donations
would stand up to those who provide them if the situation called for it.
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